Hi everyone, watching the wonderful Lionesses bringing home the Euros trophy on Sunday made the thought of sporting medals pop into my mind, and with it the colours gold, silver and bronze … which inspired me to make a Christmas card with round baubles in those colours. I have made quite a few cards with these Tracy Evans bauble stamps, but haven’t heat embossed them until now. Here it is.
I cut a piece of white stamping card, and stamped/heat embossed the baubles using gold, silver and copper metallic embossing powders. I hand drew the strings, then stamped fern branches above and some holly leaves with vintage text below. I added some sparkle to the leaves with Wink of Stella, then stamped a couple of background Christmas numbers, and a grungy Christmas sentiment before matting onto a black border and 7” x 5” card blank.
Stamps: Tracy Evans Boutique Designs TE18 Decorations, TE22 Christmas Wishes; AALL & Create #806 Fallen Leaves; Visible Image Poinsettia Grunge (sentiment);
Media: Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Sand Dune); Versamark; gold, silver and copper embossing powders; Wink of Stella.
Challenges I would like to enter:
12 Months of Christmas #124 - Anything Goes Christmas (2nd entry)
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Foil/Hot Embossing
613 Avenue Create (July) - Anything Goes with option Any Holiday (2nd entry)
Christmas Kickstart #100 - Merry-Go-Round (circles)
C.R.A.F.T. #760 - Christmas
Crafter’s Cafe (July) - Anything Goes with option Christmas in July
Dream Valley #341 - Christmas In July
Girlz Creative Christmas #135 - Embossing Wet or Dry
The Holly and Ivy #188 - Anything Christmas Goes
Merry Little Christmas #63 - Anything Christmas Goes (2nd entry)
Outlawz Festive Friday (July) - Christmas (2nd entry)
Peace On Earth #92 - Anything Christmas Goes
Rudolph Days (July) - Christmas
Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday #710/711 - Anything Goes
I definitely need to start stepping up the Christmas production line now - 7 months gone already and I have made a grand total of … errrr … 4 so far! ☺️
Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
7 comments:
Hi Pauline, your Christmas card is gorgeous. The decorations you created with embossing powder are charming. The branch and holly are beautiful stamps. Thanks for joining the Dream Valley Challenge! Tatiana x DT
Hi Pauline, the Christmas card is beautiful and very elegant. The decorations created with the embossing powder are fabulous. Thanks for joining the C.R.A.F.T. Challenge, Tatiana.
Great Christmas card Pauline, I love all the sparkle.
Liz xx
Love the metallic baubles. Thanks for joining us at Rudolph Days challenge.
This card must look spectacular for real with the embossed baubles - a great idea and a sort of variation on a monochrome design.
How lovely! What a super card, Pauline, the embossed baubles look so classy and I love the background stamping too. Thanks for joining Gail and me at The Christmas Kickstart, Jo x
A gorgeous card, love the layout.
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