Sunday 14 December 2008

Different sketches, same style

I keep saying I'm not making any more Christmas cards, but I sat down yesterday afternoon to make a few more. I decided to have a bit of a change of direction, and pulled out a beautiful Hero Arts collage stamp I hadn't used this year. The result was two dark blue cards in the same style, but following different sketches.

The first one was this week's Friday Sketchers,

and the second one is Sketch Saturday.


For both cards I stamped the Hero Arts image using Versamark and embossed with silver pearl embossing powder. I also embossed a sentiment by Stamps Away in the same way. For both cards I matted my image and sentiment onto silver holographic mirri card cut with my nesties, and layered onto torn printed pearlised vellum by Papermania and dark blue pearlised background paper by Reminisce. I decorated the images (and second card vellum) with Papermania gemstones. On the first card I also cut a snowflake from vellum with my Cuttlbug, and I decorated the second card wtih two Dovecraft snowflake brads.
That's all for now .. hope you are all getting your Christmas preparations done ... I'm off to do some more chores now LOL!

Update: seeing as it's so near Christmas and we're all as busy as bees, I'd like to enter this into a challenge that only popped up one day after I posted the card ... namely PTW which this week is monochromatic... well I hope the cards above are self-explanatory on that score LOL! I rarely do mono cards, esp. for Christmas, so thought this was too good to miss :-)

21 comments:

Karin said...

Great cards!!!

Ali Watson said...

Fab cards, what a beautiful stamp.

Heidi said...

Your card is so wonderful and the stamp so beautiful. Love it
Thank you for playing with my sketch

Hugs from
Heidi

Hazel (Didos) said...

These cards are stunning, I love the colours you have used, Hazel xo

Donna said...

Such a beautiful and elegant card Pauline :) Donna x

Carole said...

Lovely card Pauline, wonderful details.
Thanks for joining us at FS.
Carole x

Becky said...

They are both gorgeous cards Pauline, love that stamp!
Love Becky xx

Lynda Nielsen said...

Lovely card and such great detail! I love it! =)
hugs
Lynda

Helen said...

Fab cards Pauline! I love the black and silver colour combo!
Helen x

Bev said...

Pauline, this is such a striking card! Gorgeous!
hugs Bev x

gina g said...

Gorgeous cards love the image. gina xx

debby4000 said...

gorgeous, elegant cards, brilliant job using the sketches.

Joey said...

Hi Pauline, these are both gorgeous!!!and so elegant. joey xxx

Cathy said...

Gorgeous cards Pauline. Love the stamp and embossing.
Hugs
Cathy xx

Lorraine A said...

Hi Pauline, lovely cards :-)
Merry Christmas

Cheryl KVD said...

These cards are just precious!! I love the classic look and all the little details!!

Sharon Traynor Designs said...

These are both stunning cards Pauline. I love that stamp because it is so unusual. Hope you're keeping well.
Sharon

Mrs Mayne said...

Oooh, we'll let you off! lol They are both gorgeous thanks for sharing on PTW!

~Emma~ said...

Oh wow Pauline they are stunning! Thanks so much for my beautiful Christmas card...its gorgeous!

~Emma~ said...

Oh wow Pauline they are stunning! Thanks so much for my beautiful Christmas card...its gorgeous!

Naoual said...

This card is gorgeous! Love what you did with the sketch. Beautiful stamp you've used.

xx Naoual