Traditional twist christmas...

Happy Friday...

Wow what a  few days I can honestly say Ive been racing this week but its a gentler day for me today promise.

I thought i would share a christmas card form my shows earlier in the week that uses traditional chitsmas colours but with a modern twist.

I stared by using silver moon sparkle texture paste through the that special touch holly background mask and left it to dry.

Next I cut the triple merry christmas perspectives die in white pearl card and took the merry christmas strips out.  I added these to a piece of card which I had cut with stripes of rich red and brunswick green foundation card ( 1cm strips)

I simply matted and layers this overt the masked background ( one dry about 1 hour)and added a spray of striped ribbon from my stash and one of the pine cone em,belishments.

enjoy...

Winters child snowflakes...

Happy Wednesday,

I'm rushing to the airport today to pick up the wonderful Wendy as she's flying in from Spain to help out at the Crafting at Ally Pally show this weekend.  Therefore its a quick card today just some simple stamping and a quite interesting background technique.

I stated by making the background by adding the snow flurry mask to a piece of white foundation card.  I then spread polar white cosmic shimmer sparkle texture paste through this and let it dry ( about 2 hours to be sure).  Next I shaded around the piece using clear day colour cloud blending ink.  I shaded darker around the outside then lightened it as I got to the centre.  The sparkle texture paste resists the colour cloud blending ink and so shines in white!

Next I tend some bakers twine across the left hand side and added the stamped panel.  I cut an oval using the Geneva die set and stamped the stars ( from my Birthday seasons clear stamp set) in clear day colour cloud around the edges.  Next I stamped the poem from the same set in the centre.  I then over-stamped the stars and poem using Cobalt archival ink to give a shaded look.

Finally a few layers of coconut white and cobalt foundation card, a messy bow and a crystal charm from Craft Consortium in the centre and a couple of aqua stick pins.

Enjoy...

more details...

Happy Saturday,

I'm on the road again at Franki's Craft, coffee and Chat today and tomorrow doing workshops with the lovely ladies of Darlington!  I thought you might like more details on this card which made a quick peak at the launch of my Christmas Stamp range.

Ive had so many questions about the background I thought it deserved its day in the sun!

For the background I coloured a piece of watercolour card using aqua lagoon pixie powders.  Next I added the all stirred up mask from that special touch over the top.  I then made up a batch of multitex texture paste powder with the bluebell intense pigment stain ( i will be demoing this on the 12th August on Hochanda)

Next I cut the piece into 9 equal squares which I mounted onto white squares to make up the background.


To make the card I stamped the sentiment and the leaping reindeer onto heat resistant acetate.  I then covered the back of the reindeer with cosmic shimmer dries clear glue and added silver chrome polished silk glitter.  Once dry the glitter shows through as if floating.

I wrapped the acetate over the front of the background and hid where I glued it on using a trip of ribbon which I stamped with the border from one of my border tips on the flourishes clear set.

I added the whole piece to a few layers of card which I added the deck the halls stamp around the edges.

Enjoy...