I stamped the image and sentiment onto the centre of a piece of watercolour paper, and used watercolour paints to colour it. Then I placed it in a snowflake frame embossing folder and ran it through my Cuttlebug. It came out partly embossed normally and partly letterpress. I really like the look so am going to check for more stamps that will fit in that centre section.
My other card today is for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown's recycling challenge. A friend and I regularly go out for tea and pastries at a lovely little French cafe. I always save the foil cardboard thingies that the pastries come on as they look exactly like a Christmas ornament. So that is the recycled item on my card.
I die cut the holly out of some smooshed green leftovers and the word joy out of some red glitter cs and glued both to the gold "ornament". Because the foil is so slippery, the glue oozed out from under it in a lot of places. There was no way to get it off so I sprinkled fine glitter all over the sticky sections. It looks better in real life - quite sparkly - but in the photo it looks kind of splotchy. I added red Stickles to the berries on the holly, and wrapped red twine around the top and through a hole I punched in the top of the ornament and through the card base.
Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Ultimate Crafts Snowflake Frame embossing folder, watercolour paints
Supplies for card 2:
Paper - white cs, leftover smooshed green scrap
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - holly die, Joy die, red Stickles, red metallic twine
Wonderful Christmas twofers. The first is tiny and cute.. love the EF. Brilliant recycling on the second and clever use of the excess glue.
ReplyDeleteThe snowman and background scene is really pretty Susan, and love the snowflake frame EF which looks great with it, and the recycled gold card has made a wonderful ornament and embellished beautifully with the holly and berries, and the red sentiment and twine wrapped around the top are super finishing touches. x
ReplyDeleteGreat embossing folder to frame that teeny snowman. It looks great. The combination of products for the ornament is a wonderful way to recycle the paper and adding glitter was brilliant to cover up the glue. Two lovely Christmas cards.
ReplyDeleteWoow such an awesome recycle! You picked a perfect item to make a recycled Christmas card. And I didn't even noticed the glue spots. You used glitter perfectly to add a touch to your Christmas card. Thank you for playing with our challenge at 52CCT. Valentina DT
ReplyDeleteTwo great cards. I love the debossed side of your EF and that stamp fits perfect ly in the centre. Great use of foil pastry base, it makes the perfect ornament ♥
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, I love your sweet little snowman. Beautifully watercoloured ... with AMAZING framing. So cool. Your french pastry cake pad makes a perfect ornament for your card. LOVE the pretty holly and berries with Joy. Adding the gold glitter makes it look so sparkly!! Great work! xx
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