December Christmas Card #3 ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your weekend was good and you have a good week too. Before I start waffling about this card I want to thank all you lovely ladies for the positive comments you yesterday’s card I truly do appreciate it. Today I have another one of those iridescent background cards to share with you and here it is ...

A 145mm square card

Great for posting

The beautiful shimmer and shine

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Addicted-to-Stamps-Challenge #158 Monochromatic 
Christmas Cards All Year Round Challenge December Anything Goes

Country View Crafts Challenge Christmas

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #362 Anything Goes 
Creative Artiste Challenge #33 Mixed Media Anything Goes

Crimbo Crackers Challenge #146 Anything Goes 
Dream Valley Challenge #169 Christmas

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

That’s Crafty Challenge Green with Envy

This card was created because I’ve been playing with some of my very old stamps and playing with these acrylic paints to see what backgrounds I could create using the acrylic paints neat and onto Kraft snippets.  I love this, I love everything about this!  I used just two colours to create the background and once again I used a make up sponge, from yea oldie pound shop, which was lightly sprayed with water before picking up the paints and swirling it across the Kraft card. I stamped then heat embossed the beautiful reindeer with Emerald Creek embossing powder and I love that too. I was worried that heat embossing such a large image would make the acrylic bubble but it hasn’t and that’s so good. I used Distress Brushed Pewter paint to ink up the stars and then lightly sprayed them with water before stamping them and then heated them to make sure they didn’t budge.

I used coloured snippets for my die cut Merry Christmas, I think the card had been coloured with Peacock Feathers Distress ink. I used some little white stars that came out of snowflake die cuts. I used a few of the beautiful sequins I purchased from Little Lucy’s Cards shop. Before purchasing these sequins I had previously purchased a pack from Dovecraft and I wasn’t happy with them because the colour was chipping off the sequins so I indulged a little just for our Christmas cards and they’re worth it lol! Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment. I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp &/ Stencil:

Stamp N Stor Dee Gruenig Reindeer stamp

Die Cutting Machine & Dies:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus die cutting machine

Sara Davies Signature Range Merry Christmas die

Whimsy Stamps Snowflake dies

Miscellaneous Tools:

MISTI; heat tool; paintbrushes; water pot; paint palette; make up sponge; spray bottle of water; anti static pad; Tim Holtz Distressing tool

Supplies

Card Paper:

Craft UK 145mm square Kraft card

Snippets: Kraft card; Sheena Douglass white stamping card (for the sentiment)

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Pebeo Dyna Iridescent acrylic paint: Green Blue; Blue Green

Emerald Creek HSE-007 Weathered Wood EP

Peacock Feathers Distress IP

Embellishments:

Little Things from Lucy’s Cards: Iridescent Clear Sequin Mix

Adhesives/Mediums:

Versamark IP

Collall all purpose glue

Double sided tape