Hi and welcome. I'm the sketch hostess over at Freshly Made Sketches and I decided to add to my meagre Christmas card stash with this card.
Firstly, I inked up one side of an embossing folder with white pigment ink and ran it through with kraft cardstock. I repeated this a few times to get a good layer of white ink then set it aside to dry. Once dry, I lightly inked around the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink. Then my plans came unstuck! I had planned to use some patterned paper my mother gave me a piece of which had scripty Christmas words over a chalkboard-looking background, but I didn't have enough! So I decided to make my own. I used a chalk bg stamp first then stamped over that with a text Christmas stamp. It's not the same but it's okay.
I added the two panels to my card base and included a thin strip of gold foil cardstock at the join. The tag was hot-foiled and then die-cut and I also die-cut some holly leaves and berries which I added to the tag. I finished with some twine tied in a bow onto the tag.
Products used:
Stamps: Chalk Background (Hero Arts), Christmas Background (MFT)
Ink: Cloud White (Altenew), Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Cardstock: White, Black, Kraft, Amarena Cherry (MFT), Pinefeather (PTI), matte gold foil
Dies: Seasonal Sketch (Tim Holtz, Tag Sale #5 (PTI), Christmas Mailbox Greetings Hot Foil (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Gold hot foil, twine, Holly & Foliage EF (Spellbinders)
Cheers
Karren
1 comment:
Very pretty card, Karren!
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