…we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds

I’m sharing a CAS Christmas card today featuring Angel 2, a stencil from Nellie Snellen.

Over at Winter Wonderland they are running a tribute challenge for Eileen, the founder of the challenge who sadly passed away recently.  Given this is a tribute challenge I thought it would be fitting to make a Christmas card featuring an angel, something CAS but elegant in mostly white.

I’ve had the stencil for some time, it’s a metal one so embossed nicely.  I ran it through my Crossover and then rubbed embossing ink over the raised bits (with the stencil still in place) and then sprinkled on my Fran-tage.  After heat setting the Fran-tage I painted the debossed sections with Twinkling H2Os to complete the angel and give her a lovely heavenly shine.  The embossed image and Fran-tage add two kinds of dimension to my card, the Bitty Gems a third so I am entering it in the current ABC Christmas challenge using the D is for Dimension option.

The layout of my card follows the current sketch at Less is More.  I took some liberties with the size of the circular element (swapped out for the angel).  Despite my seemingly endless supply of Christmas stamps I didn’t actually have a one word sentiment, which I thought this card needed so I printed the ‘Noel’ and then doused it in clear embossing powder to give it some dimension and shine.  I added in the three lines with Bitty Gems and tied it together with the angel by placing some in her halo.

A final framing with gold metallic cardstock for a simple and elegant card that looks beautiful in real life but was a nightmare to try and photograph!  The Twinkling H2Os looking more like a water stain than the shimmery ever so pale gold colour it really is.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Shabby White

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Nellie Snellen Stencil Christmas in Jugendstil ~ 500000/2172 Angel 2 (retired)

Embellishments

Close To My Heart ~ Bitty Gems

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Twinkling H2Os ~ Pearl Gold

Papers

Bazzill Criss Cross Cardstock ~ Lily White

Core’dinations Kraft Core Tim Holtz Collection Metallics ~ Gold

White Cardstock from stash

Challenges

ABC Christmas ~ D is for Dimension

Less is More #317 ~ Sketch 19

 

Winter Wonderland ~ Anything Christmas Goes Tribute Challenge

Thanks for stopping by!