ICS #41

Hey all! reveal day at Inspirational Card Sketches! This was a wonderful sketch to work with this week!

You may have noticed, I'm not much of a stamper. I tried but I couldn't get into it, really. I have stamps, but I prefer playing with the paper. :)  My favorite cards I make with my cricut or by fussy cutting. The card for this week's ICS sketch is definitely a cricut card! LOL

I used some BG papers from last year's scraps, some cardstock and some white chipboard. The branch, squirrel and snowflakes are all from Winter Woodland. I used Martha Stewarts branch punch for the greenery. You know what I did? A few weeks ago I grabbed a bunch of scrap cardstock in several shades of green and just punched it all with the branch punch. I have a box of these punches just waiting to be used so I don't have to bother punching them out while I'm putting together a card. Very handy!

 

 

The snowflakes in white chipboard have been stickled with Diamond stickles. The 'berries' are red microbeads that are in a type of glue that holds the beads together and dries and glues the beads to the paper. Love that stuff! My good friend Anna sent me the jar. 

The sentiment starts on the outside with the "we wish you..." which are mini letter rubons on a tag that I hand cut. The inside will finish the sentiment, which I will probably write or type later when I decide who I'm sending the card to. :)  I'm really pleased with this card. At first I thought I'd cut the squirrel too big, as I'd intended him to be a little smaller and for there to be more negative space, but now I like him big like that.

Thanks for looking!