Holly Bows .....

Made another Christmas card featuring stamped holly leaves & berries .....

It's available to buy in my Etsy Shop ....... click HERE to have a look .....

Sid xx

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Christmas is coming ........

Yes I know it's only the 2nd November but .......... we have been asked to do some Christmas cards using non-traditional colours by the Less Is More Challenge Blog for week 196.

My first card uses diecuts and embossing but no stamping.  I loved the pink and blue theme where I have emphasized the embossed snowflakes with some blue dye ink (Memento).  I have edged the embossed plate with blue glitter embossing powder applied with Versamark and heat embossed with a heat gun.  The underlying diecut is made from pink pearlised card.

The word plate is gold embossed and mounted on foam pads.

My second card is entirely stamped (apart from a little bit of black paper lace) with Versafine onyx black ink.

I have kept it monochrome for simplicity.

Sid xx

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Imagination ATC

This is a rather 'long in the making' ATC which was started some months ago but that I have only finished today.

I took some canvas effect white cardstock and cut to size. I then applied various Jacquard paints with a brush and water to colour the background.

I used Sherrils Sorbet mint along with some lime and white acrylic paints which I allowed to dry. I then drybrushed some Lumiere pearl turquoise and super copper until happy with the result. I tried to keep the copper towards the edges of the ATC. I then inked up a crackle stamp (Crafty Individuals) with emerald green Colorbox chalk ink and stamped across the ATC.

The imagination plate was made from some of the same background cut to size with a copper sentiment applied. This plate was then triple heat embossed with clear UTEE before edging with super copper and mounting on foam pads to the ATC. Final touches were added with two antique copper brads of a butterfly and a dragonfly.

Hope you like it :)

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'Metal' ATC's

These three ATC's are part of a UK Stampers Forum Swap.......just completed on a metal theme. I used panels done with triple thick embossing and two rubber stamps. All other embellishments are metal brads. They were edged with Krylon in Silver, Gold and Copper.

Hope you like them:)

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