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
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
Twinkling H2Os ~ Pearl
Gold
Papers
Core’dinations Kraft
Core Tim Holtz Collection Metallics ~ Gold
White Cardstock
from stash
Challenges
Thanks for
stopping by!