It’s Saturday, so that means it is time again for your bit of Holiday Happiness and new challenge from 52 Christmas Card ThrowDown.  This week the challenge is a de-stash challenge and we are focused on Stickers!

I don’t usually use a ton of stickers, but I found in the depth of my stash these old (and I mean at least 10 years old) holiday colored alphabet stickers.  You don’t usually use the ABCs and the holidays together, but I thought it might actually be kind of fun.

I started by blending red Distress Oxides onto some cards stock.  I used Candied Apple, Fired Brick and Aged Mahogany to create the light ombre.  Then I added the alphabet letters randomly, letting some of them drift off the page.  Because they were so old, I painted a layer of soft gel medium over the whole card.

After everything was dry, I went ahead and die cut the cardstock with a Honey Bee Designs die and reassembled it onto an A2 card frame.  Then I die cut a tree out in watercolor and stamped the words from a Recollections stamp/die set onto the tree with archival ink.  Using both a green Tombow and a green Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen I “water” colored in the tree.

I really can’t wait to see how you play along with this de-stash challenge.  Till then, happy crafting!