On the first day of Christmas…

Managed to get another card finished today to add to my Christmas card stash using the lovely Pear Tree Partridge die from LDRS Creative.

This card was inspired by the current challenge at Jingle Belles, where they want you to take inspiration from the song “The 12 Days of Christmas”.  Seeing the challenge theme reminded me of this die in my stash so it seemed the perfect time to get it out of its packaging and give it some use.

I cut the die from a piece of watercolour paper and added in all the details with some Tim Holtz Reinkers.  I’ve just now realised that I didn’t run it back through my Crossover with an embossing mat for some added texture, doh!  Probably would have been a good idea seeing I am also entering my card in the current challenge at Allsorts, which has a theme of embossing.  Mine is added with the sentiment, one of Tim’s stamps, and some lovely gold embossing powder.  I also embossed the chest of the partridge as it had some pieces cut out that looked a bit odd to me being empty.  A dusting of silver embossing powder filled them in nicely and added a bit of sparkle to the partridge too.

Embossing is also the optional theme at Happy Little Stampers and their current Christmas challenge, which I’ve just made it in time to enter.  The die cut is so pretty I left this card quite CAS, I had thought about making the centre behind the partridge into a shaker but it seemed all a bit too fiddly and the card is already quite thick thanks to my multiple layers.  Why so many you ask?  Well, because now I have not just a partridge in a pear tree but also fiiiiive goooolden riiiings - ha, bet the song is well and truly stuck in your head now!

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Silver

Wow! Embossing Powder ~ Metallic Gold Rich Pale

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

LDRS Creative Die ~ #8014 Pear Tree Partridge

Embellishments

Close To My Heart Bitty Gems ~ Brown

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers ~ Various colours

Tsukineko ~ VersaMarker

Papers

Arches Smooth Paper ~ Watercolour 185gsm

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Blackberry Swirl

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Kraft Core Metallics Collection ~ Gold

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS249 Scribbly Christmas

Challenges

Allsorts #413 ~ Embossing

Happy Little Stampers Christmas ~ Emboss

Jingle Belles ~ “On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, my TRUE LOVE gave to me...”

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