Lost Lagoon Let It Snow for FMS #657

Hi and welcome to my blog for a look at the newest sketch by Freshly Made Sketches design team and hosted by Karren Johnson.  Here's her sketch: 

This is a great sketch! You just have to look at all the great card samples both by the FMS Design team and the participants to see how much variety it invokes. While I'm not a fan of angled panels on cards either, I thought this would be a great chance to coordinate some old and new stamp and dies for this season's cards. 

HERE'S MY CARD: 
I chose to do a monochromatic card with a tag on tag look.  It worked out pretty good starting with the background papers from the Winter Meadow DSP pack. I absolutely love the combination of these two papers.  The solid one looks like a wintery sky and the trees on the lower paper are beautifully blended. 

This sentiment from Stampin' Ups! Greetings of the Season Bundle, seems to be my go to sentiment and tags for this year's cards.  For the sentiment I love the mixture of serif and sans-serif lettering, which gives a more modern look to the sentiments.  I also love the largest of the 9 dies which measures 2-1/2" x 3-3/4".  Now that's a good sized tag! 

Here you can see more of the detail in the tag.  I love how the tag within a tag works.  My only regret with this design is that I didn't stamp off the Let it snow tag before the final stamp in order to reduce the bold Lost Lagoon color on the solid bids of the design.  It's quite a bit darker but it still fits within the monochromatic theme.  

The snowflakes which are beautiful on the larger tag should have been bolder and popped out more, but I'd already embossed my cardstock before die cutting the tag.  The result is a flatter look but it still works.  The nice thing about these dies is they can be cut using either the full size Stamp, Cut & Emboss (Big Shot) or the mini.   

The die cut trees were made using a die from the Encircled in Nature Bundle.  I'm starting to fall in love with all the intricate dies and beautiful stamps in that set as well.  These little trees are all joined and die cut well.   

Supplies:

Stamp Sets and Dies:

• Merry Little Labels (R) 144795 - Let it Snow 
• Greetings of the Season #164325 for the inside sentiment and dies for the large tag
• Encircled in Nature dies - Lost Lagoon tree images
• Lovely Label punch for Let It Snow Label 

Cardstock and Designer Series Paper:

• Lost Lagoon 8 1/2 x 5 1/2" piece scored at 4 1/4" for card base scraps for pine tree die cuts 
• Whisper White 2 pieces 4" x 5 1/4" for inside and outside mats
• Scrap of Whisper White for Let it Snow label and 3" x 5" scrap for tag
• Winter Meadow DSP for background papers in Lost Lagoon

Ink and Accessories:

• Lost Lagoon ink
• Basic Rhinestones on front tag
• Dimensionals 
• Snowflake Sky Embossing Folder for large tag

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