Gold Gilding Flakes and a Hedgehog in a Stocking

The Jingle Belles challenge wants to see gold.  I went with gold gilding flakes.

 

 

I patted the holly stamp with Cosmic Shimmer Flake and Glitter Glue (using a square of foam as an applicator), then stamped onto white cs. Then immediately washed my stamp with warm soapy water. Added the gilding flakes and pressed them into the glue, then used a craft scrubby to rub off the excess.

I used one of the SSS thin frame dies to cut a thin rectangle frame out of the white cs, then cut one out of gold cs with the same die, and inset it into the gap in the white cs. 

 

Next up, for Can You Handle the Pressure where they want to see layers and for We Love Stamping "Make It Cute".  By my usual CAS standards, I've got quite a few layers on this card.  And I think the little hedgehog in the stocking is very cute.

The background is a 3D pine tree embossing folder to create the idea that the hedgehog and his stocking are hanging in a tree.  He's stamped and watercoloured, and then die cut with the matching die.  The main panel and the sentiment oval are both bordered in dark green cs.

  

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black
Paper - white and gold cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Cosmic Shimmer gilding flakes, Cosmic Shimmer Flake and Glitter glue, SSS thin frames die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, white and dark green cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Penny Black die, Tim Holtz 3D embossing folder, Spellbinders small oval die