Well it's a busy old time of year at the moment. Loads to do, not enough hours to the day and as card makers we are on guilt trips about sending shop bought cards too! I thought I'd share a couple of the cards I made as Design Team samples for the gorgeous and versatile Family Christmas stamp set from Elusive Images. I fancied making a card in monochrome and silver. It doesn't show that well in this picture, but the images on the tree are all glittered in three different colours of extremely fine glitter. The flowers are cut using a small Marianne Poinsettia die, the leaves use a McGill Pine Bough punch that gets good use all year round, even if I do have to stand on it to cut through card! The border at the bottom is cut with a Crealies die set from the Netherlands. These are new to me and cut beautifully. The whole thing is matted on silver.
The second card uses a rocking horse image. I felt this needed a vintage look., so I stamped this image and embossed in burgundy on some cream card, watercoloured with some Distress Inks and Inktense pencils and edged with some Vintage Photo DI before distressing the edge and matting onto burgundy. The image is backed onto an Artylicious holly DP and then added the cotton gingham ribbon, edging cut with the Martha Stewart Garden Trellis punch, with some whopping big flowers and very nice metal flower brads. The sentiment is also from the Family Christmas plate and I embossed and coloured it the same way as the main image. I always manage to take pictures that make things look wonky but I am sure the sentiment did not have that list IRL!
Go and have a look at the Graphicus website for these stamps through the link above and click on the gallery link to see all the amazing work the girls in the design team have come up with. While you are there check out their sale too!
Thanks for popping round!
Elaine xx
