Showing posts with label joanna sheen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joanna sheen. Show all posts

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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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Merry & Bright Christmas

Hello everyone!! I'm back to share a Christmas card that I made this week. I'm really loving this gold embossing on vellum. It gives a very elegant look to the card. Have a look here:


I stamped the Poinsettia image from Joanna Sheen's Make A Wish stamp set on vellum and heat embossed it wit Hero Arts gold powder. I colored it on the back with my water-based markers.



I then stamped the sentiment from Sweet n Sassy Stamps' Christmas Penguins Clear Stamp Set and heat embossed it with gold powder.


I then mounted the vellum on ivory card base. I really love the look of the ivory background!!

Lesson learnt: Be very careful when using liquid adhesive on the colored side of the image :) I had a small accident and spoiled 1 card base :)

How can I not mention what started me on this gold on vellum phase!! I was inspired by Virginia Lu's card which was selected for this month's CASEploration Challenge in the STAMPlorations blog.


A bit of news - we are moving to NJ this weekend. I have made a few more cards before packing up my craft stuff which I'll be sharing soon. I might be packing/unpacking for a few days/week. Once I get settled, I will be back in my new craft space (I guess I'll get a small space with a table). Till then, I might be on and off. I'll be visiting your blogs in the mean time :)

Do let me know your thoughts and suggestions. Thanks for stopping by.

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