Friday 11 December 2020

Christmas Medallion


Welcome
I can't believe how quickly time is flying by as the big day gets closer.
I have all my cards mailed out, now I just need to finish a few to hand deliver.  

I have to let you in on a little secret of mine!  Once I start making Christmas cards, I find it hard to stop.  I don't know if it's creating while listening to Christmas music or just all the images that inspire me.

Anyways, here is what I did to create today's card.
  • I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock and positioned the Lace Doily stencil from A Colorful Life Designs over to the side of my panel.
  • Using some Gesso and a palette knife, I spread the paste over the stencil, then set it aside to dry completely.
  • When the Gesso was dry, I rubbed on some Broken China, Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky and Blueprint Sketch Distress inks using an inking tool.

  • Using a baby wipe, I lifted some of the colour from the Gesso and splattered heavily with water to lift more of the ink.  
  • I wanted to give more interest to the background, so using a script from the Faded Text stamp set by Tim Holtz (love!), I randomly stamped in the background with Blueprint Sketch. 
  • I die-cut the sentiment from Creative Expressions with some silver paper and then glued that over the panel.
  • The panel was dry so I splattered using my white Posca pen.  I just take a ruler and tap the pen over my panel to add droplets of paint.
  • To help accentuate the silver, I rubbed some Versamark along the edges of the panel and silver heat embossed it.
  • I glued it all together onto a heavy white card base and finally I added some white pearl dots.


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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.



Supplies
Stamps- Faded Text (Tim Holtz)
Inks- Distress (listed above); Versamark
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); silver cs
Accessories and Tools- Gesso, Lace Doily stencil (A Colorful Life Designs);
palette knife; baby wipe; pearl dots; silver eb powder; heat tool; Merry Christmas (Creative Expressions)

11 comments:

cuilliesocks said...

Beautiful design Karen, wonderful colours and texture, it's such an elegant and stylish card, Kate x

nancy littrell said...

Love your mixed media stenciled medallion design, Karen. You sure have been creative with all your artsy Christmas card. Thank you for all the inspiration this year. Wishing you a very Merry and Healthy Holiday Season. Love and Hugs..Nancy

Susan said...

Beautiful - it looks so wintery and frosty in those colours!

Pat said...

This medallion stencil is a beauty Karen, and love the look of the gesso used through the stencil and the inking with the shade of blue and purple looks so pretty. The shiny silver die cut sentiment finishes it perfectly! x

Verna Angerhofer said...

Really gorgeous. That is a great stencil.

Christine Alexander said...

love the non traditional design using the medallion :)

Aimeslee Winans said...

Gorgeous! XOX

Annick said...

what a fabulous background !

Heidi MyLittleStampingBlog said...

The gesso makes for a really nice soft look once you ink over it. Really beautiful!

Mac Mable said...

What a unique effect you've created with the gesso, water and blending Karen x.Such a beautiful stencil and I am loving the addition of the text stamping and the pop of silver x. A stunner of a card x.

Jeanne H said...

This is a particularly lovely card. I just love it. TFS