This time of year always amuses me. How do you do Christmas when you're not religious? You may notice from my recent bloggings, I just don't do Christmas at all! I think I have done fairly well so far to produce a few Christmas card which are neither religious or traditional and don't actually mentions the C word at all. I'm not a descendant of Scrooge, honest, I just loathe all the commercialism that surrounds it all. So, given the choice, I will choose wintery themes, snowflakes and sparkle, only this time I decided to go for something a bit different.
I am obsessed with red. Well actually I'm not as obsessed as I used to be, but that is probably because now I have a full house and lots of kids running about, there isn't as much opportunity for all the little knick-knacks I used to favour. You should see the state of my lovely red candle set after they got toddlerified lol So every so often I decide to indulge myself and do some crafting in red, and this time of year gives the perfect excuse. I can do festive if not Festive right?
The image I have chosen for my card is Sweet Pea ching-chou kuik's Fluttering-butterflies. It's a really pretty stamp and I have had some stamped images on paper sitting around for a while, just waiting for me to decide what to do with them and I was flicking thru the stack and spotted this and just knew she would look stunning in red and green. I coloured the dress and wings in a combination of poppy and forest green promarkers and the moon and lantern with buttercup and vanilla and touches of gold. The background is coloured with indigo blue, and the skin with almond and dusky pink. Hair I coloured with cinamon and gold and I think it looks like her hair has captured the moonlight. For a bit of added sparkle I have used my trusty gelly roll pens - always good for a bit of bling.
I am rather fond of my nesties, would love to be able to buy more but they are soooo expensive, definitely worth it but still! I trimmed the main image using the biggest in the deckled rectangle set and had a bit of an accident where it wasn't lined up properly so I shifted the image up a bit and cut it again and hoped for the best and luckily it cut straight so I got away with it, phew! I love my starburst stains and had made a sheet of red card which I used as the background then I used some red glitter paper from my stash to trim the edge and cut again using the largest die out of an offcut of the starburst background, but I didn't think it stood out well enough, so I dipped the edges in glue and then in ultrafine red glitter to make it really sparkle. Coloured a few flowers with poppy and dipped their edges in glitter too, and the coloured a peace of lace ribbon using poppy again. This I placed along the side of the glitter paper and offset the red card and the image and put that on and added the glittered flowers. I used a few red gems to add an extra bit of sparkle. I knew the card needed a bit more, but I couldn't think what.
When I visited The Stampman a few weeks ago, Vix was demoing triple embossing and although I tried it as soon as I got home, I couldn't quite get the hang of it, but I had to have a go again for this card. I was lucky enough to get some Christmas shape chipboard a while ago and in there I had some stars in different sizes. I used moonglow angel wings ruby and layered it up using my heatgun and then stamped into it with a snowflake stamp... and it worked this time! I attached the stars to a a thin piece of ribbon and punched a hole in the card, added a yellow star (which I coloured up a little with pink promarker so it wasn't so yellow and attached the stars so they hang freely like a tree decoration.
Fab card Sarah! Love your pretty embossed stars and your red starbust paper is gorgeous!
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