Red Christmas Roses...

Happy Wednesday,

I know that Christmas roses are traditionally white but I love the way they look in a traditional red.  I used the Craft Artist flower foam Christmas pack selecting the deeper red and cutting this with my new Christmas Rose die plate.

I shaded the petals with black pigment ink which really brings out the colour and intensifies the colour.  I prefer using the coloured foam for coloured flowers as its far easier to shade the edges than to colour white to red then try to darken the edges and get shading.

I added my shaded ivy matching stamp and die stamped onto green crafts too linen card with Izink embossing ink and heat set it with opaline ( mother of pearl) clear embossing powder. This gives a lovely reflective shine to the pattern on the leaves.

I used the Sams Starz die set for the main card cut and added to a piece of double sided adhesive sheet before adding holographic clear glitter over the exposed adhesive.

I cut the star panels in white on the burgundy and added the flowers as shown .

Enjoy...