Golden Merry Christmas Wishes

 

Welcome

Today's card is a totally gold card that I made using a beautiful new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called:

Fancy Merry Christmas

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

• I began by placing the Fancy Merry Christmas stencil over a piece of white cardstock.  I used a palette knife to spread some gold Lunar Paste over the stencil until it was covered and lifted it off.  I set that aside to dry which takes awhile.
• While that dried, I die cut another piece of white cardstock using the Hemstitch die and glued that onto a piece of gold cardstock to match the sentiment.
• I cut 3 snowflakes from the same gold cardstock.
• When the sentiment was dry, I fussy cut around the edges and used some foam tape to pop it over the white card front.
• I added the gold snowflakes around the sentiment and glued the finished panel onto an A2 sized card base.
• The final touch was to add some gold gems to the snowflake centers.

Here is the stencil I used:

Fancy Merry Christmas

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Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More- ANY OCCASION

The Holly and Ivy- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES

Sparkles Christmas- USE THE WORD CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Simon Hurley Lunar Paste (Slippery When Wet)

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Hemstitch die (Spellbinders);

Snow Much Fun snowflakes (Doodlebug); palette knife; gold gems

Golden Snowflake Greetings

 

Welcome

Today's card was a quick and easy one to create and has a nice shine for the holidays.

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

• I looked through my stash and found this blue 'roll off' sheet that I did while using my Gel Plate.  Anytime I use my Gel Plate, I keep extra cardstock at hand to roll excess ink off my brayer.  They make great backgrounds!
• I placed the cardstock into the Angled Mosaic embossing folder and dry embossed it.
• Next, I rubbed some Simon Hurley Lunar Paste over the raised surface of the embossing and set aside to dry.
• I die cut the snowflake and embossed it as well using the same folder, then rubbed some more of the paste over it .
• I glued the card front onto a piece of gold cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I used some foam tape to pop the snowflake over the front and added the pre-printed sentiment.

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- USE CRAFT DIES

Merry Little Christmas- ANYTHING GOES

The Male Room- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

Accessories and Tools- Angled Mosaic eb folder (Altenew); Pre-printed sentiment (SSS)

Simon Hurley Paste (Slippery when Wet); snowflake die-?

Gold Deer

Hello and Welcome

This card began as I looked at this Alcohol inked piece left over in my stash.  I love creating the backgrounds but it takes me some thought to figure out what to create with them when they are done.

After I cut this deer out in some gold paper, I liked how it looked against the inky bkg and my card was born.

So, let me explain how I created the background first.  

Using a piece of Yupo, I drizzled on some Ranger Alcohol inks and added a few drops of Blending Solution to help the colours move.  I placed a piece of plastic wrap over that and let it dry.  When I removed the plastic wrap, I was left with this lovely, rich looking bkg.  I mounted that onto a piece of gold cardstock and set aside.

Using some more of the gold cs, I embossed a strip in my Cuttlebug using this Plaid Embossing folder to use behind the image. 

Time to put the card together.  I glued the gold embossed strip onto some brown cardstock.

I glued the gold deer onto the Alcohol inked bkg and pop dot mounted that over the gold strip.

It looks quite elegant irl.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING GOES

A Bit More Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Just Us Girls- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Ranger Alcohol inks

Paper= Yupo; brown cs, gold cs

Accessories and Tools- Plaid EB folder (Echo Park); Deer Die (Recollections); plastic wrap;

Ranger Blending Solution; Cuttlebug; pop dots