Holiday Home for The Retro Rubber Challenge #26.....

Hello Everyone: The Retro Rubber Challenge blog has a easy sketch for us to play with, I encourage you guys to participate, the only requirement is that you use stamps that are at least one year old, and we all know we have a bunch of those beautiful stamp sets that have been retired but we just can't get rid of, I think I have more retire sets from all over the place than new ones. So, I hope you guys give this challenge a try, go and dig up your old, beautiful and forgotten sets and give them a chance to shine again.  Here is my card.

This card is made with one of the cutest, prettiest, most adorable Stampin Up! sets called "Holiday Home", it's so sad they retired it, I honestly do not understand why they do that. This set has 3 super cute little houses and a lot of other little stamps for every Holiday season, from Halloween to Christmas and everything in between. 

I stamped the house onto a piece of Canson water color paper and colored with my PRISMACOLOR PENCILS and paper stumps dipped in baby oil, then I snipped it out and glued it on a Ninah Solar White panel. Using my MISTI , I positioned the lamp post, Christmas Tree and snow man precisely where I wanted and stamped them with Memento Tuxedo Black ink for the lamp post and snow man and with my SU marker in Garden Green for the Tree. 

I sponged some Broken China distress ink for the sky and masked the moon then, I stamped the sweet, little Santa's Sleigh and adorable Reindeer with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, to follow the sketch, I die cut 3 little snow flakes with one of the small images from THIS Impression Obsession Snow Flake dies. The little stars in the sky are the inside of the snow flakes.  

Here is the sketch that inspired this card.

I want to thank you for stopping by, thank you also for your comments, they always make my day. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

Until next time, happy stamping.

Hugs from Maria.