Vellum Stitches for Friday Mashup

I'm late with my post for Friday Mashup, bad me! It was a very hectic week and I had no time to stamp and I'm also not one of those wonderful stampers who manages to work ahead so here I am on Saturday with my card :)

Tara has a fantastic challenge for us.....use stitching/faux stitching on your card along with vellum. I love faux stitching so I was really excited to do this.

I grabbed one of the new sets from the Christmas catalog, White Christmas, and I embossed the trees with white embossing powder(SU, which I found in my stash a few days after posting on here that I had none, sigh). I then took vellum and cut it along the lines of the hill on the stamp to create my snowy hillside (for the bottom hill I did the same thing, just reversed the strip to get the hill going in the other direction). The snowman was stamped in Memento Ink and I colored him in with a white gel pen and some metallic green and red pens I have. I used the snowflakes from the set and stamped them in Whisper White and then covered some of them with Dazzling Details to get a little sparkle. The bird in the tree was stamped in Real Red and the sentiment was stamped in Marina Mist.

Now, I was going to do faux stitching. I love the look and besides, I hate actual sewing. I avoid it all costs. When I was in the Navy I paid someone to do any sewing I needed, big or small and throughout the years at home hubby has done any sewing that's been needed. So yeah, I don't like to sew. For some crazy reason I grabbed a needle and hand stitched the borders on the card! I don't know what got into me, maybe the rain we had all week made me a little more loopy than normal, I don't know. I can say that while I like how it all came out, I wont be reproducing this card, at least not with hand stitching :)

Come by The Friday Mashup and see all the great projects from the rest of the design team and then play along with us!

Here's your Mashup Challenge:

• Create a Project using "Vellum". 
• Create a Project with "Stitching (Sewing or Faux)".
• or Mash it up! and create a Project with "Vellum and Stitching

Stamps: White Christmas

Paper: Soft Sky, Vellum

Ink: White Craft Ink, Memento Ink, Real Red, Marina Mist

Accessories: White Gel Pen, Green Metallic Pen, Red Metallic Pen, Dazzling Details, DMC Floss, White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool