Away in a manger...

Happy Thursday,

Today is the first day of the Craft Hobby and Stitch show at the NEC in Birmingham and I will be there demoing on the John Next Door stand for all four days!  The next few days I will show you some of the cards and techniques I will be demonstrating over the next 4 days!

Today's card is a really simple stamping job using my Festive Silhouettes clear stamps and if you like this card you can easily replicate it with a different centre perhaps one made with the bauble media plate or even a pre printed topper.

I stamp the manger, and scene in the centre of a piece of white card.  I then added a layer of more white cut with the stitch dot circles.  I stamped the winter trees from the same set over this so that the trees continue over the layers ( you may have to look closely to see this as it shows better in real life)

I then added a thin gold mirror card layer in the between these.

I added a top layer which I embossed and letter pressed using the same Izink gold metallic pigment ink pad using my snowflake circle embossing folder with the centre removed.

I surrounded the final circle aperture using the find it media festive foliage cut in gold with white gloss accents on the berries.  I finally added poinsettia cut in gold dust iridescent card which I also used for some of the layers.

I finished with a layer embossed with the crafts too falling snow embossing folder and layers of white, gold dust and gold mirror card.

Enjoy...