Thursday 10 October 2024

Chalkboard Christmas

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.

Thanks so much for visiting.  Please head over and check out what the rest of the DT have done with my sketch.


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

8 comments:

Lisa Elton said...

Very pretty card, Karren!

Dawn T said...

Turned out perfect Karren. Love the chalkboard look

I Card Everyone said...

Karren, I love your card and Sketch! I'm loving the bold black print and such a wonderful combination of textures and color!
You've also reminded me that I've yet to use some of my personal Letter to Santa prints yet this year! Hmmm I wonder if I can create white lettering on black background in Word? Off to the races...
=]

Amy O said...

I love your two custom-made backgrounds! They provide a gorgeous backdrop for your beautiful tag! It was fun to play with a tag in a sketch again -- it seems like it's been a while!

Joanne James - The Crafty Owl said...

A great card for a great sketch Karren! I love the pop of red from your tag and a clever trick on your scripted 'paper' - it looks as if it's printed for sure.

Nora Noll said...

This is so pretty! I love the embossed background and the red tag against the colors you used. It just POPS. Beautiful design.

Linda Callahan said...

Fub sketch this week! Loving all of the goild foiling on your card - especially with the red! So elegant!

Jen Timko said...

This is a show stopper! Every detail is so perfect. Really fabulous! Thanks for a great sketch this week.