merry & bright.... an Oxide-inspired card

Hi, everyone!

Well, it's been two days since my mini shopping spree in the Simon Says CREATE store.... and I'm bound determined to not put away those newly purchased stamps, stencils, and dies until they've been used at least once! (Darnell would be soooo proud!)

So, today I played with another new TCW stencil. The Crafter's Workshop is a new company to me... and I fell in love for a couple of their stencils, including the one shown at the right.

Inspired by the "five golden rings" portion of the Twelve Days carol, I decided to feature five of these lights to play along with the Jingle Belles' My True Love Gave to Me challenge.

Strathmore watercolor paper; Stampin' Up black
TCW stencil, images inked in StazOn jet black
Distress Oxides fossilized amber, broken china, fired brick, worn lipstick, iced spruce; Distress black soot
SU good greetings sentiment, heat embossed with Versamark and SU white powder
accents: Pretty Pink Posh sequins and Wink of Stella pen
adhesives: Scotch ATG; foam backing 

At a CREATE make-n-take session, I watched Tim play with his Oxides. The whimsical design of the stencil and the recent purchase of some Oxides, inspired me to play outside of my typical crafting box. Gotta say I was pleasantly surprised by the end result. Tim's words of wisdom to be patient and stay with it -- drying between layers, encouraged me to keep at it. He swore that the Oxides are mistake-proof... and he may just be right.  :)

I'm also going to share this at the Simon Says Anything Goes Challenge.

Parting Thoughts

Don't forget about our Words 2 Craft By Challenge. Our linky is open through Wednesday.  :)

Have a great week, thanks for stopping, and happy scrappin'!