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,
12 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.
Gorgeous card Pauline, love the stamps and beautiful embossed baubles.
Carol x
What a lovely card. Thanks for joining us at Rudolph Day
That is a lovely Christmas card! The metallic shine of the baubles against the black and white background is striking!
Love that you were inspired by the Lionesses to create this beautiful and elegant Christmas card- the baubles look beautiful heat embossed in the gold silver and bronze colours xx
WOW! That’s a gorgeous Christmas card and the embossing is luscious xxx
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