TCC138b Silent Night, Holy Night

Hi Friends!

Welcome to The Card Concept #138b {Christmas In July} Challenge!  I hope you will take a moment to check out the rest of the Design Team cards- so much inspiration!

I absolutely love our inspiration photo- the pretty blues and pinks along with the vintage feel and was inspired to create a Classy and Elegant/ Mixed Media card! 

I am also participating with the International Art & Soul #88 “Christmas Card based on a Carol or Song” Challenge (Silent Night- love this carol) and the Crafty Creations #411 “Anything Goes” Challenge.

If you have not had a chance to visit The Card Concept or the other challenge sites yet, I encourage you to do so- fabulous inspiration from all! 

To create this card:

Ink the Poinsettia Collage image (Divinity Designs LLC) using Versafine™ Onyx Black ink, stamp onto a piece of white cardstock, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Once the embossing powder has cooled, watercolor the image using distress inks along with water-based markers, lightly drying the layers with a heat tool.  Once satisfied with the coloring, trim the image and mount onto black cardstock (trim again close to the edge).

Cut a piece of white cardstock for the background (this card is 3 ¾” x 8”).  Using a palette knife, apply glitter gel with a stencil to the top half of the panel.

Allow the gel to air-dry (this only took a few minutes) before mounting onto a 4 ¼” x 8 ½” piece of black cardstock.

Add a piece of white crochet lace to the card front and adhere a strip of melon grosgrain ribbon over the top part of the lace.  Layer a piece of silver metallic ribbon over the grosgrain (wrap the ends of both behind the panel).

Adhere the entire panel onto a 4 ¼” x 8 ½” white card base.

Stamp the sentiment from Peace on Earth (retired Verve Stamps) with Versafine™ Onyx Black ink, stamp onto a piece of white cardstock, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Die cut the sentiment with a stitched rectangle die, mount onto black cardstock and trim close to the edge.

Mount the poinsettia image and sentiment onto the card front with dimensional foam (or chipboard).

Using diluted Pearl Texture Luxe™, watercolor a layer of shimmer over all of the petals. 

Trying to capture some of the shimmer on the petals and texture paste :-)

Once dry, add a few white highlights with an extra fine white paint pen and add a rhinestone to the center of the star on the sentiment to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets: Poinsettia Collage (Divinity Designs LLC), Peace on Earth (retired Verve Stamps)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine™ Onyx Black, Tim Holtz™ Distress- Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers; Stampin’ Write Markers- Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay, Granny Apple Green, Mossy Meadow; Gina K™ Glitz Glitter Gel, Sharpie® Extra Fine White Paint Pen, Faber-Castell® Texture Luxe™ Pearl 

Cardstock/Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black

Tools/Accessories: Gemini, Jr™, My Favorite Things Stitched Rectangle A2 STAX Set 1 Dies, Embossing Buddy®, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Palette Knife, Tin Tile Stenxil (CAS-ual Fridays); ⅜ Silver Metallic Ribbon (Darice), White Crochet Lace, Rhinestone

Thanks again for taking the time to visit!  I hope I have inspired you to create your own card based on our {Christmas In July} photo and link up to our gallery at The Card Concept- we would love to see what inspired you! The challenge is open until August 3^rd  at noon EDT.

Peace on Earth

Hi Friends!

This card was designed using the brand new Creative Worship Clear Stamp Set, Peace on Earth (designed by Krista Hamrick) available on pre-order from Sweet ‘nSassy Stamps. 

I love the images in this set- perfect for cards, Bible Art Journaling, home décor as well as scrapbooking and other crafts.

 

 I incorporated the Freshly Made Sketches #304 Sketch Challenge (used scoring for the horizontal center layer- hard to see in the photo), the CAS Colours and Sketches #239 “Colors" Challenge and the Happy LittleStampers September Christmas "Anything Goes- optional twist Sparkle” Challenge into the design.

 

If you have not had a chance to visit the above challenge sites or the SNSS Blog/FB Page yet, I encourage you to do so- gorgeous inspiration from all!

To create this card:

1). Ink the dove image from Peace on Earth with Versafine™ onyx black ink, stamp onto white cardstock, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.  Once the embossing has cooled, watercolor the image using ink from markers (fresh fig, always artichoke and tangerine tango) along with a gray watercolor pencil for the dove’s feathers (use a water brush to dilute the pencil) and fussy-cut around the edges.  Once dry, apply shimmer to the dove with a clear glitter pen.  Add the fussy cut dove with dimensional foam onto a die cut circle from white cardstock and layer the white circle onto a circle die cut from fig cardstock.

2). On a 4” x 5 ¼” piece of white cardstock, score two lines at the top and bottom of the area for the horizontal panel in the sketch (hard to see in the photo).  Ink the "Peace" along with the "on earth" sentiments and star image from the Peace on Earth Clear Stamp Set with Versafine™ onyx black ink, stamp onto the panel, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with the heat tool.  Color the images with the same markers and apply shimmer to the letters and stars with a clear glitter pen.

3). Layer the scored background panel onto a piece of artichoke cardstock, trim and mount onto fig cardstock, trim and mount onto a white card base.  Add the fussy cut dove circle element with dimensional foam onto the card front.

4). Add the few embellishments with Nuvo™ Jewel Grey Mist drops to finish off the card.

The colors are a bit non-traditional for Christmas but I had fun creating this CAS Mixed Media card! 

Stamp Sets:  Peace on Earth (Creative Worship from Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine™ Onyx Black, Stampin’ Write Markers- Always Artichoke, Fresh Fig, Tangerine Tango; Nuvo™ Grey Mist Jewel Drops, Spectrum Noir™ Clear Glitter Pen

Paper/Cardstock: Whisper White, Always Artichoke, Fresh Fig

Accessories/Tools: Big Shot™, Circle Dies, Embossing Buddy®, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Scoring Tool

Thanks again for taking the time to visit- I hope all of you have a great weekend!