Hello and welcome fellow crafters on a very wet and windy day in Yorkshire.
This months inspiration started off life as a plain piece of kraft card. I don't have many Christmas stamps so I had to just use the couple that I did have. I started off by stamping the holly stamp around the edge of the card with versamark ink and then heat embossing with white embossing powder. I really love this effect on the kraft card.
I decided to use pencils to colour the holly in, but half way through I regretted this decision as I spent an awful lot of time sharpening my pencils. The kraft card was really quite rough and was blunting them rather quickly. It looked nice when finished though.
I wasn't sure what to do at this point, so just looked at it for a couple of days. Then I had one of those 'aha' moments whilst looking through my stencils. I placed the winter tree stencil over the card with the obligatory moon mask too. I used chipped sapphire and gathered twigs distress inks through the stencil with cut and dry foam, as I wanted the ink really dark. When I removed the stencil I noticed that the ink was still really wet so thought i would put some clear embossing powder over it. When I heated it I noticed that it had lots of white flecks in it that must have in the clear. I must admit it looked really cool, like snowflakes.
I edged the card with more of the gathered twigs ink, but it was still lacking something, so out came the gilding wax. I rubbed some into the moon and then around the edge of the card. Also onto the black card that I mounted it onto. The word and stag stamps were done in versamark ink and heat embossed with gold to match. I really loved the overall look of this one, even my Mum likes it and she's my biggest critic!
I do hope you have enjoyed reading my blog, it was a bit of a long one this time. I hope you find some inspiration and can join in with the challenge.
Hugs
Amanda xx
