It’s pouring here
so I’m taking the opportunity to catch up on my Christmas cards and this one
features a lovely retired stamp from Stampin’ Up! called Scenic Scene.
My card follows
the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, which I rotated to fit my
stamp. Over at Season’s Greetings they
are looking for embossing so I took that cue to add in some of my background
design elements, namely the two banners.
I stamped them using Tim’s Linen stamp from the Mesh & Linen set and
then sprinkled with clear embossing powder to give some texture.
The main stamp
was done the same way, stamped then doused in clear embossing powder. This technique dulled the Encore! gold ink a
lot, which I actually quite like with the muted greens I used. But, as the current challenge at Daring Cardmakers calls for green with a glimmer of gold I thought I’d add another mat
behind the main image in gold cardstock (which, of course, doesn’t show up very well at all in the photo!).
I decided to add in the blue sky to help the image really pop and then
added a dusting of ‘snow’ with some chunky white Fran-tage.
Have to say I am
really chuffed with how this card turned out.
Glad I did add in the sky, love the pop of blue.
Ingredients:
Chalks &
Powders etc
Inks & Paints
etc
Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Pacific Point & Tempting Turquoise
Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing & Forest Moss
Tsukineko Encore!
Ultimate Metallic ~ Gold
Papers
Core’dinations
Kraft Core Tim Holtz Collection Metallics ~ Gold
Curious Metallics
Iridescent Cardstock ~ Cryogen White
Tim Holtz Paperie
Stash ~ Tidings
Stamps
Stampin’ Up! ~ Scenic
Scene (retired)
Challenges
Thanks for
stopping by!