Embossed Ornaments and Red and Green Postal

Shopping Our Stash challenge is "My Sweet Embossable You".  I've heat embossed some ornaments.  It's also being linked up with The Twelve Months of Christmas "Anything Christmas Goes" and Christmas Kickstart "If It's Christmassy, Link It Up"

I stamped the image with Versamark and then very carefully with a very tiny spoon, I sprinkled gold embossing powder over the left hand ornament, tapped the excess off, then sprinkled copper ep on the next ornament, etc. and then repeated with silver and bronze. Trimmed the panel, added it to a copper shimmer cardstock base, and added a sentiment.

In real life, the image is more metallic and shiny than it looks in the photo.

Simply Clean and Simple and We Love Stamping both want "Red and Green".  Colorful Options wants "Red, Green, and White".  I went with a vintage postcard-style image.

 

 

I love vintage style and don't do it nearly often enough.  I had the Tim Holtz Festive Collage stamps on my desk from a card I made a few days ago, and thought they have quite a vintage look to them. I chose the smallest of the four images in the set as it would be easiest to keep it CAS.

I created a bit of a smooshed background with Distress Old Paper and Pumice Stone to give my focal image piece an aged vintage look. Then put it and the stamp in my MISTI and stamped with a light grey ink (Archival Hickory Smoke). I then coloured the branch and berries with watercolour pencils. I lost too much detail with my colouring so overstamped with black ink.

Then bordered with red, added it to an off-white card base, and put Glossy Accents on the berries. 

  

   

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Indigo Blu ornaments, Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Versamark, Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs, copper shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - gold, silver, bronze, and copper embossing powders, stitched sentiment banner

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Tim Holtz Festive Collage
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, Archival Hickory Smoke, Distress Old Paper and Pumice Stone
Paper - watercolour paper, red and off-white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Tim Holtz watercolour pencils, Glossy Accents