…a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star…

Sharing a CAS Christmas card I made featuring the layered Nativity Star set of dies from Birch Press and a sentiment from the Christmas Blessings Sentiments by Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps.

I’d love to say this is me getting a head start on Christmas cards for this year but it’s actually my penultimate one for 2018 that didn’t even get finished by the 12^th day of Christmas!

Over at Inkspirational their word prompt is CASE, which did actually prompt me to take another look at this fab card on the Frilly and Funkie blog by Sara Baker of Sara’s Closet.

Sara made a few different designs but I really loved the look of the one she called ‘boundless imagination’.  To make the card my own I changed up the die cut from a snowflake to the star.  I didn’t have the mixed media powder Sara used so substituted with Fran-tage, which gave me a somewhat similar look.  I liked how Sara used the black ‘shadow’ layer so cut my base layer also in black.  I wanted to keep my card quite CAS so while I also made my own background I went for a simpler ink blending without any dry embossing.  I added a bit of bling in the centre of my star to match Sara’s die cut but, as my card is winging it’s way across to the USA, I skipped on the metal embellie for the sentiment for the lighter option of a stamped one.

At Crazy 4 Challenges they are asking you to share your favourite card type.  Mine would have to be a 6x6 square in CAS, has been for some time now.  So no surprises this card is on a 6x6 base and I’ve kept it all CAS.

For my colour scheme I was inspired by the silver and blue challenge at CAS Christmas.  The jury is still out for me on the Jane Davenport Squid Ink I used for the sentiment.  I’ve juiced up the pad a lot and there seems to be plenty of ink on my stamps but it doesn’t seem to give very good coverage.  I actually added clear embossing powder to the sentiment to help it stand out on the background.  So the hunt for the perfect metallic ink pad continues for me.  It also doesn’t show up at all in the picture but there’s an added bit of silver with the Tonic silver mirror card mat sandwiched between the blue inked panel and a black mat.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Silver

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Super Fine Detail Clear

Ranger UTEE ~ Black

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Birch Press Dies ~ 57212~57215 Nativity Star (Layered)

Embellishments

Prima Say It In Crystals ~ The Archivist

Inks & Paints etc

Jane Davenport Squid Ink ~ Silver Trinket

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Chipped Sapphire

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ~ Broken China, Faded Jeans & Salty Ocean

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Classic Cardstock ~ Licorice

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ White

Bellbird Paperarts ~ 210gsm Cotton Blend Card

Tonic Mirror Card ~ Chrome Silver

Stamps

Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps ~ Christmas Blessings Sentiments

Challenges

Crazy 4 Challenges #465 ~ Favourite card type

Thanks for stopping by!