Friday, December 21, 2007

Holiday Elegance

My husband asked me to make some custom Christmas cards for a few of his clients. It took me a while to think up a card design, but he really liked how they turned out. It was my first time using transparencies and now I am hooked.


The swirl stamp, paper and greeting are from Stampin' Up! The snowflake is from Jolee's. I looked through all my Christmas stamps and I couldn't find one that said "Merry Christmas," so I used this one and it seemed to do the trick.

I embossed the greeting with silver embossing powder and it came out great.

7 comments:

Rachael said...

They are so pretty! :)

Liz said...

I stumbled upon your blog by accident. Beautiful cards. What ink did you use to stamp on the transparency?

Alyssa said...

Thanks Liz...

I used Stampin' Up's White Craft Ink. It's pigment based so it goes on kind of thick and takes a while to set, but if you use the textured side of the transparency (for ink jet printers) it should dry just fine.

Anonymous said...

Stunning! Wow!

Liz said...

Thanks for the answer, Alyssa. I thought that you might have used the white SU ink. I love that ink.

Jennifer said...

Absolutely beautiful! I am a HUGE fan of handmade stationery & really like your work. Do you have an Etsy or EBay store? Happy New Year to you & yours!

Jennifer :-)

Alyssa said...

Jennifer,

I have thought about staring an Etsy store, but with 3 busy kids I haven't had time to really look in to it. Thanks for aksing.