Funky Christmas

Hi everyone!. I'd just like to say thank you for all the lovely comments you've all been leaving me recently, its much appreciated & I'm still working my way around catching up with what you've all been up to as well.

Also, a big hello & welcome to my new followers!

Thank you for following me & taking the time to visit.

Now, onto today's card.

It's one I made a while ago when I was trying to get into the swing of making Christmas cards.

It's 8 x 8 on a scalloped card blank & features 2 stamps from Indigoblu. 

Funky Circles Tree & Merry Christmas dinky.

As you can see, I've gone for the traditional red, green & gold Christmas colours.

I stamped the tree in Evergreen Bough distress ink onto white card & heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

I then cut around the tree & inked it with Festive Berries distress ink.

I stamped just the star at the top of the tree with flitter glue, applied gold gilding flake, cut it out & stuck it over the original star with 3d foam.

Next I stamped the Merry Christmas dinky with flitter glue onto red card & applied gold gilding flakes.

I then mat & layered this onto green card, the edges of which I'd lightly touched with glue & gilded.

I gilded the edge of some red card & attached the tree to the left with 3d foam & the sentiment to the right.

I stamped the funky tree around the edges of a piece of white card with flitter glue & once gilded inked with the red distress ink as before.
This was then mat & layered onto red & then green card & the whole lot was mounted onto the card blank.

The final touches are a gold organza ribbon bow & red, green & gold gems in the circles on the tree.

Right, I'm off to bed. A busy day tomorrow. Daisy has her first Harvest Festival in the morning & then its busy, busy pricing up several deliveries that arrived in the shop today.
Christmas is definitely on it's way!

Amy x 

Up and away!

Hi all,

Just a quick post today as I'm in the middle of getting things ready for our bank holiday camping trip. Here's hoping the weather improves, it's been cold, wet & windy here today!
 I'm sure we'll still have a good time though as we are going with a good group of friends & taking lots of layers & a bit of alcohol to keep us warm!
 

My card today is one I've made using Indigo Blu stamps (again!) Grand Tour III, Map Background & Itsy Bitsy Backgrounds.

 

I'm loving their stamps at the moment & before I sent the loan stamps back to Indigo Blu I wanted to make some cards using them other than for our workshops.
 They have a scheme where when you place a trade order with them you can borrow some of their stamps so you can make samples to show along side their product. A great idea that I wish more companies would adopt.

 

I chose to use Grand Tour III as it has a hot air balloon image on it which will be perfect for my Uncle's birthday ( although not til October ) as he recently went Up and away on a balloon trip - a Christmas gift.

 

I stamped the balloon, compass & sentiment in black memento ink & colour washed the balloon with aged mahogany distress ink.

The compass was colour washed with a mix of mustard seed,  aged mahogany & brushed corduroy which I also used to distress the edges of the sentiments, background & zigzag strip which was stamped with brushed corduroy.

The balloon was cut out & attached using 3D foam & I added some D.O Chronology screw brads & metal frame around the sentiment.

 

 

I'm entering this card in Hels Sheridan's Sunday Stampers  week 258 Old/Vintage challenge.

 

That's it for now, thanks for stopping by & as always your comments are most welcome.

Back again after the bank holiday, hope you have a good weekend.

 

 

Amy x