Well we have romped home once more and this time I have a card for my beautiful Mum for Christmas - quite safe on here because she does not use a computer!
Please forgive the lack of detail shots - I took the photos that I thought would be useful, packed the card and then very cleverly deleted the detail shots by accident! Very useful!
But I am sure that you will forgive me and mostly you can see what is going on from the photo here.
I wanted to achieve a really tasteful card with the grey skies of winter and a fall of glittering snow (no amount of detail shots would have helped there!
I started with a palette of greys and black and white. The card blank is quite large ( 15cm x21cm) and I cut a piece of black and white ViviGade paper (a scandinavian company) plus a piece of grey smokey paper from the same company. I inked the edges with Ranger Distress Ink (Tim Holtz) in Pumice Stone, stamped some random snowflakes and, because my mum loves music, also some sheet music and sewed the grey paper to the black and white. I spent some time distressing and curling the edges of the paper too - it works better to make any larger tears before sewing.
This was great but still a little dull so I heat embossed some holographic snowflakes also at random, over the card.
Still with Tim Holtz, I cut a neutral grey Tattered Ponsettia with my trusty Big Shot die cutter and inked the edges with Mowed Lawn for the background and Barn Door for the top of the flower. This was a little loud so I went over with Vintage Photo ink to calm it all down. That worked a treat! Instead of using the die cut centre for the pointsettia, I used a really big flat backed pearl in the color green that my Mum loves best.
Some green ribbon and some grey patterned ribbon over the top of that with a matching bow really set it all off. Tuck the ribbon all around the back of the black and white paper for neatness.
The words up the top are some red washi tape and I wrote out a lot of random words in a nice font (courier in this case) and cut them up. They received a treatment with Pumice Stone ink too so that they did not leap out too much and I adhered them to the tape.
Next I went around the edges, just on the black and white paper with some DecoArt Glamour Dust to make that sparkle nicely in the background.
Finally, use your favourite method to adhere the completed card front to the card stock.
That's all folks!
I know that this is a little late for Christmas but I hope that this fairly timeless design will be the start of something big for next year.
in the mean time, have very Merry Christmas and a safe and healthy New Year!
Thanks for stopping by!
Debs
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Thanks for stopping by - I would love and welcome any feedback. Debs xxx