Friday, October 9, 2015

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Hello everyone!! It's Fall already and time to get started on Christmas cards.

I'm very much addicted to gold embossing for now, and how can I not use gold in a Christmas card!! This is one of my favorite stamps for Christmas. Both the bauble and the holly bough with poinsettia are from Joanna Sheen's Make A Wish stamp set. I heat embossed them with Hero Arts gold embossing powder and colored them with markers.







I love how the bauble has turned out. The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps' Christmas mini gift tags set. It is actually a small oval shaped tag with a few snowflakes. I wanted to stamp only the sentiment. So I masked the remaining portion of the stamp with pieces of masking tape.


This year I thought of sending some cards for the Caring Hearts Card Drive. The purpose of this card drive started by Vera Yates, is to collect holiday cards for the elderly living in nursing homes. You can read more about it here in Vera Yates' blog post or here in Jennifer McGuire's post.

Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know your thoughts and comments.

This is one of the cards for Caring Hearts Card Drive.

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18 comments:

Unknown said...

The gold embossing highlights the curves and color. A truly beautiful Christmas card. Thank you so much for taking time to post your very creative art with us this week at Word Art Wednesday in our 204th AG challenge!
Blessings and Hugs, Carole

julie_woolston said...

Stunning beautiful flowers .
Thank you for joining us at Winter Wonderland.
Hugs Julie xxx

Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...

What a stunning embossed card!! Very elegant and beautiful!! Thanks so much for sharing with us at ODBD!!

Dr Sonia S V said...

Oooh so rich and grand the gold and red look
Cheers
Dr Sonia

aussie aNNie said...

lovely card and embossing.x
 {The Journey Is The Start  aNNie  my personal blog}

brenda said...

Such lovely work as always |Berina, have a good weekend.

B x

SD pooja said...

Wow..Red and gold ,perfect festive combo !

Julie Gearinger said...

Love your elegant embossing with your gorgeous coloring- so beautiful!! Thanks for playing along with us at the ODBD Shining the Light Challenge - hugs and have a blessed week!

gail said...

Stunning card, love the embossing and a fab stamp. thanks for sharing with us at Happy Little Stampers.

Susan Hogan said...

That is a stunning card - so beautiful and elegant.

Jingle said...

Very pretty card! I like the gold! Thanks so much for playing along with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

BożenA said...

Beautiful card, delighted me.
Regards,
BozenA

Susan said...

Love the rich colours and the gold embossing on the poinsettia! Thanks for joining us at Happy Little Stampers.

Carol said...

A beautiful card, the gold embossing looks wonderful. Thanks for joining the Christmas challenge at Happy Little Stampers this month. Carol DT x

Unknown said...

Very nice!!! Love the bright gold embossing powder with the red! So glad you played along with the ODBD challenge too!

Tanvi said...

Berina this is brilliant embossing! Thank you for joining Lulupu Challenge#54! Good luck!

The Colour Press said...

Such a stunning and pretty card. Thank you for joining the oct lulupu challenge. Hope to see your entry this month too.

Aneta said...

It's so stunning! Beautiful colours and design.
Thank you for playing with us at BGC!