Joyful Moments

 

Good Morning

Just a few days until Christmas arrives.  I hope you holiday plans are going well!

Today's card is a fun one using just one part of a layering stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Layered Holly 

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and then placed just the berries part of the Layered Holly stencil over that.  I inked it up with some Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink.
• I removed the stencil, cleaned it off and flipped it around upside down and placed it back onto my cardstock.  I inked again with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink.
• I wiped the stencil clean and then decided to add some more of the dots using some Squeezed Lemonade DOX ink.
• I still wanted more dots, so using the eraser on the end of a pencil, I added more dots using the red.  Those were a bit bigger then the stenciled ones, which helped balance out the design.
• Using a white Posca pen, I put dots into the eraser stamped ones to add more interest.
• When my card front was dry, I die cut the "JOY" sentiment from the center.  I die cut the shadow with some red cardstock and glued the 2 together.
• I dry embossed a piece of red cardstock as I wanted to add interest to the open part of the sentiment, then I glued the stenciled card front over that and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the sentiment back into place, matching up the stenciled pattern.
• I added some die cut pieces around the sentiment to finish my card off.

Here is the stencil I used:

Layered Holly

(I used just the berries)

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- UNDER PRESSURE

Cardz 4 Galz- CHRISTMAS CARD

Krafty Chicks- CAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencil- A Colorful Life Designs, white Posca pen, 

Make Art Station (Ranger), Big Tidings Dies- (Tim Holtz), Mosaic Angles eb folder (Altenew)