The Craft's Meow October Release Preview - day 1

Welcome!  Today we are beginning the October unveiling of the new The Craft's Meow stamps for Christmas!!  Today I and the other DT members will be showing you 2 sets: Christmas Angel, by Nina Brackett, and Hearth and Home, designed by Elizabeta Kushner.

I paper-pieced Nina's beautiful angel, stamping the wings and heat embossing them in gold embossing powder on a printed honey cardstock.  The dress and body were stamped in black ink; the dress on another marbled creamy design paper, and the head and arms on white cardstock, and colored in with alcohol markers.  Here's a closer photo to show the glimmer of gold on the wings and the subtle printed patterns on her gown and wings.

The sentiment is from Luke 2:14, and is one of several equally lovely sentiments included in this set.  

And here's my card using the Hearth and Home set:

This set has many varied elements; I chose the holly branch and jingle bells, and the accompanying sentiment.  The holly branch was stamped 4 times on white cardstock, then colored with alcohol markers, and cut out, adding some Ranger Glossy Accents to the berries for some dimension and shine.  They were then arranged on the music paper along with the sentiment cut into a banner shape.  I stamped the jingle bells once on white, and again on a pearly gold paper coloring the ribbon on the white and piecing in the gold bells, before popping them above my holly.  

Please pop over to The Craft's Meow blog to see what Guest Designer Emily Keaton  and my other teamies made with these 2 new sets.  You have a chance to win both these sets by commenting there!  I hope you'll come back tomorrow and Wednesday to see previews of 4 other Christmas sets!!  And on Thursday all of them will become available at The Craft's Meow Store.

Glory to God supplies:
Cardstock: white
Design Papers:  unknown scraps
Stamps: TCM Christmas Angel
Inks: VersaFine onyx black and Versamark (wings)
Embossing Powder: Ranger Super Fine Detail Gold
Markers: Letraset flexmarkers
Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives 3D foam squares

Jingle All the Way supplies:
Cardstock: green, white, pearly gold
Design Papers: The Paper Studio Textured Cream Sheet Music (Hobby Lobby), Authentique Festive
Stamps: TCM Hearth and Home
Markers: Letraset flexmarkers
Ranger Glossy Accents to highlight berries