Falling Sparkles

Today's card features a background stamp from Stamps by Chloe called 'Falling Sparkles' that I got from a charity shop earlier this week. I stamped it onto purple card using Versamark ink, then heat embossed it using 'Magical Mauve' embossing glitter from WOW. I matted it onto some purple mirror card, then added a sentiment cut using a Tonic Studios die from more of the purple mirror card. This is so sparkly and shiny in real life, but a real pain to photograph!

Challenges for this card:

• Allsorts - Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• I Spy with My Little Eye - Something Monochrome
• Little Red Wagon - Make Your Own Background
• Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas Goes
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes

Poinsettia Panel

Today's card features part of a prize that I won recently over at the Allsorts Challenge...a lovely sentiment die by Tonic Studios. I started by stamping my 'Poinsettia Panel' stamp (from Stamps by Chloe) onto some black card using Versamark ink, then heat embossed it using metallic gold embossing powder from WOW, then watercoloured it using Cosmic Shimmers mica pigments mixed with a little water. I cut the sentiment from a snippet of gold mirror card, then layered it over the stamped and coloured panel. I matted it all onto some more gold mirror card before adding it to a white card blank.

Challenges for this card:

• Allsorts - Anything Goes
• As You Like It - Gold, Silver or Glitter (I love using gold on Christmas cards (especially on a dark background) to give a really luxurious feel)
• Flower Challenge - Christmas Florals
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Use Dies
• Sparkles Forum Christmas - Poinsettia
• We Love Stamping - Red & Green

Snowflake Bauble

Today's card features some items I picked up from a charity shop recently...a die set that was not in its original packaging, but which Google tells me is called 'Snowflake Bauble' by Gemini, and a 3D embossing folder by Craft Tonic called 'Winter's Veil - Baroque Snowflake'. I started by cutting the solid bauble shape from a snippet of silver mirror card, then used the snowflake part to cut out its centre. I cut a second solid bauble from a snippet of teal card, then added a heat embossed sentiment using one of the sentiments from the 'Winter Blessings' set by Crafter's Companion and some metallic silver embossing powder from WOW. I layered the silver snowflake bauble over the top, then added a 'string' using a sliver of silver mirror card. For the background, I used the embossing folder to emboss a snippet of aqua card, matted that onto some more silver mirror card before adding the bauble on top and placing it all onto a white A5 card blank.

Challenges for this card:

• Allsorts - Something Beginning with B (Bauble)
• Can You Handle the Pressure? - Anything Goes
• Cut It Up - Anything Goes
• Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas Goes
• The Holly & the Ivy - Anything Christmas Goes