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
Wow! Embossing
Powder ~ Metallic Gold Rich Pale
Dies, SVGs & Templates
etc
Embellishments
Close To My Heart
Bitty Gems ~ Brown
Inks & Paints
etc
Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers ~ Various colours
Tsukineko ~
VersaMarker
Papers
Arches Smooth Paper
~ Watercolour 185gsm
Core’dinations
Tim Holtz Kraft Core Metallics Collection ~ Gold
Stamps
Stampers
Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS249 Scribbly Christmas
Challenges
Thanks for
stopping by!