IO Christmas Hop- Day 1

Greetings friends. The IO design team is sharing Christmas card ideas over the next two days. I hope you will join us. Here is a list of all the participating designers:

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Dina Kowal
Giovana Smith
Jeanne Streiff
Laura Fulcher
Laura Williams
Robin Clendenning
Angela Bode

 For my card today, I used the Home for the Holidays clear stamp set:

It has such cute houses to color individually or to use as a Christmas village. To make the card, I stamped the card onto white XPress It paper with black Memento ink and then colored the piece with Copic markers. I added some gems to the tree and some glitter glue under the house for extra sparkle.

I placed the house image behind the frame and then layered everything onto some patterned paper. The slide frame and paper have since sold out, but really, any frame or paper would do.

Here is a sample of another card I previously posted on my blog using the same set:

I feel like the house in this sample makes a particularly good gingerbread house. I wish I had added some more white elements to it.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you will stop by again tomorrow!

Impression Obsession Items Used:

CL1376 Home for the Holidays (50% off)

DIE1357 Slide Frame (sold out)

PP078 Winter Blues (sold out)