Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia
Welcome to the blog everyone! Today we are part of Taheerah Atchias Advent Calendar Extravaganza! This is 25 days of inspiration with fabulous prizes along the way.
I have created two holiday cards for today, both using non traditional colors and non holiday stamps as part of my greeting. I’ve gold embossed the Simon Says Stamp Kaleidoscope background onto watercolor cardstock and painted with Daniel Smith watercolors. My first card features pinks and a hint of orange.
The painting technique I’ve used is wet on wet which allows the paints to flow into the recessed areas of the embossing.
I’ve used blues and teals for my second card and painted with the same wet on wet technique. I love how the colors flow together and create new mixtures.
I die cut the new Felicity Snowflake from white cardstock and glued it in place onto the painted panels. I’ve stamped “Happy” onto Desert Storm cardstock and gold embossed, the stamped a strip of white cardstock with Christmas to sit over top.
I have filmed a video of how these two cards came together. You can view it below or on our YouTube channel HERE.
It’s not a party without a prize – and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today’s prize is generously supplied by Simon Days Stamp so you’ll definitely want to win! Simply leave a comment on this post – then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too! You must leave a comment on Taheerah’s blog as well as this post in order to be eligible to win! Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more! You have until 23:59 EST on 31st December 2017 to enter.
Thanks for stopping by today! Enjoy and good luck!!!
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So delicate and pretty .
Gorgeous cards! Thank You for the inspiration.
What stunning cards. The gold embossing makes the cards look so elegant with the different colours used!
Wow ! These are two very impressive cards ! [email protected]
Thanks SSS to sponsoring the amazing Taheerah Atchias’ Advent Calendar Extravaganza!
Great work, Shari!!! Your cards are simply breathless!!!
Such gorgeous creations, treat for the eyes! Thanks for being super sponsor!
I love, love, love all the detail in both of these cards! I think I might have to try this look myself!
I love advent calenders and am always looking for new ideas-So excited!!!
Oh wow, this is a great design – looks great in all your colour combos! Really lovely, I might need to remember that layout ;-)
How beautiful!! I still have many cards to make for family and just LOVE all the ideas on this blog hop!
This is such a beautiful background stamp and I love both cards
I love the embossed background with the blues and greens. Very beautiful!
I love this advent calendar thing and look forward to it every year.
The embossed Kaleidoscope stamp is such a dramatic background for these cards. Just stunning!
These cards are stunning!
Hi Shari,
I just ADORE these cards!!! The wet on wet technique looks so easy and yet comes out looking so beautiful! (I watched your video.) I am especially fond of the pinks and oranges one. It looks stunning with the gold embossing and the snowflake diecut! Thanks for sharing. Happy Christmas!
Beautiful cards! It looks like stained glass!
WOW! These are soooooooo beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous cards:-)
Your cards were beautiful. I love the watercolor stained glass look.
Wow, those are gorgeous backgrounds!
Gorgeous cards and I love the colors with the embossing. So pretty!
Wow these cards are absolutely stunning!!
Gorgeous backgrounds! love the blues and teals combo.
Just stunning! Love your colors, patterns, design, and those snowflakes! Love!
oh my the colors in the backgrounds are just gorgeous – thanks for the idea:)
As usual I love your card and your choice of colors.
Shari, I really like the non-traditional colors you used on your 2 cards. The snowflake die is wonderful. Great cards. ;)
I LOVE these cards; real pieces of art ! These are my favourites in the Advent Calender so far.
Thank you for the very clear video; you make them look do-able.
And a big thank you for sponsoring the calender.
I love these!
Beautiful cards, love the soft watercolor backgrounds with the gold embossing and gorgeous snowflake medallion.
These are both such gorgeous cards!
These backgrounds are BEYOND FABULOUS! I need to try some new techniques, and I thank you for the amazing inspiration.
Blessings,
Karen Letchworth
WOW!!! I really love your colors on your background!! Both of your cards are absolutely beautiful!!!
Beautiful bis snowflake die and the backgrounds are beautiful!
OOh so pretty! Love these cards! Just WOW!
Oh my beautiful cards! I have wanted that SSS background stamp. Thank you for sharing your creativity!
Love the cards.
Very beautiful cards. Thanks for sharing…
Simply gorgeous cards Shari! Wonderful technique, now it’s on my list to try :)
I love that background. I have it and now I need to use it. I want that beautiful snowflake, too! Gorgeous!
The background is glorious. I thought the orange one was spectacular but the second one took my breath away. Wonderful!
Beautiful cards!
Beautiful cards! Love the embossing of the background.
Gorgeous backgrounds! And I actually have that stamp already! Oh, happy day!
Colors and techniques are wonderful — but someone please tell the die designer that snowflakes have 6-sided symmetry, and anything else looks strange… if it doesn’t have 6 sides, you can call it a medallion or a doily or a motif but it isn’t a snowflake.
Beautiful cards! Lovely colours. Thanks for sharing. ?
oh wow these are gorgeous!
Beautiful cards! Thanks for sharing!
The cards are beautiful! They look like stained glass.