I haven't been keeping up with my goal of making one Christmas card each week, so decided to use these two challenges to do so.
The poinsettias were created by spreading Real Red ink on my craft mat, then spritzing the ink with water. I then used the edge of an old credit card to pick up ink from the pool and "stamp" the edge in a herring bone pattern onto watercolor paper. I also used my Aqua Painter to pick up some of the ink from the craft mat to lightly fill in the white area of the water colored "leaves" pattern.
After drying, I then punched out petals from this inked paper. Similarly, I used Old Olive ink to create the "leaves". I've seen these weird red and white poinsettias in the store around Christmas time, so thought this technique would be good to recreate their look.
The musical note washi tape was attached to a 4"x5-1/4" piece of Whisper White cardstock, then run through the Big Shot using the Cuttlebug "Scrollwork" embossing folder.
After the flowers were dry, I put a Mini Glue Dot on the back of each petal, and assembled the flower. The leaves were attached to each flower using Mini Glue Dots as well.
I also put a Mini Glue Dot in the center of each assembled blossom, and poured micro-sized gold balls onto it. I firmly pressed the balls into the dot, but balls were rolling all over my desk!!! I'll probably be finding them until NEXT Christmas!
The embossed panel was glued to the Real Red card base with Tombow glue, then the flowers we glued to the card front.
This is a very different card design than I normally make,,, but THAT'S why we have card challenges every week - to stretch outside our comfort zone!
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 GMT Views: 612
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