A Merry Christmas Thank You...

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Christmas is literally just around the corner and the gifts are piling up in our tiny apartment! This means I have a ton of thank yous to send out and this week's Color Throwdown is another great reason to get another done to show just how much we appreciate the wonderful presents nestled under the tree. I also thought this would make a great second card for this week's Pals Paper Arts Winter Wonderland challenge as well!
For this card, I chose to marry traditional with the Throwdown's not-so-traditional color combination. The Cool Caribbean (in my case, Soft Sky, as CC was a bit before I started stamping) was the little modern flair here. The large oval background was created with a stencil and some Always Artichoke ink and a sponge dauber. It's difficult to see in the photo, but I sprayed some Glimmer Mist over the sponged image, too. This lovely bird image was stamped twice, with the popped-up image water-colored in Real Red and I added some Stickle berries and some Liquid Pearls along the scalloped frame. I combined two sentiments from Teeny Tiny Wishes and "hung" it to wrap up my Christmas thanks.
BEAN NOTES: Stampin' Up Teeny Tiny Wishes and Inkadinkado Birds Galore Stamps; SU Real Red, Always Artichoke, and Kiwi Kiss Classic Dye Ink; SU Soft Sky, Real Red, Kiwi Kiss, and Very Vanilla Cardstock; Spellbinders Flourish Impressabilties Stencil, Spellbinders Long Oval and Petite Oval Nestabilities; Quickutz Stripes Embossing Folder; Big Shot; Foam Dimensional Squares (generic); Basic Gray Ribbon HAPPY BEANS: Gold Liquid Pearls; Ranger Christmas Red Stickles; Red Embroidery Thread (generic)