Thursday, December 29, 2011

Christmas card set

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! We had a wonderful time and a lot of fun. I was a bit off-line during Christmas, so I forgot to post my last Christmas card post for this year. I was planning to have posted it on Christmas Day. This set of cards is for the Hero Arts December challenge (card set and sketch theme). I am sorry about the poor group photo of the four cards, the cards were already given away when I realised just how bad that photo is.


This is my favourite of the four cards, because of the way the light shines on the manger:


The four cards are basically similar, I just placed the stamps a bit differently, used three different sentiments, and used hearts on two and stars on the other two. Distress Stains were smeared on my craft sheet (Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Pumice Stone) and the four pieces of watercolour paper were dragged through, creating a quick background that is different every time. The cream paper was inked a bit and then stamped with Antique Linen using one of my favourite stamps. The circles were die cut from Core’dinations cardstock, embossed and sanded. The hearts and stars were die cut from grungepaper, painted gold and coated with Glossy Accents.

Here are the other three cards:




Thank you for stopping by!

Supplies: Hero Arts stamps: Greatest Gift CL559, Holiday Sayings CL343, Starry Sky S5448; Archival ink Coffee; Distress Stain: Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Pumice Stone; Distress Ink: Vintage Photo, Antique Linen; gold paint dabber; Glossy Accents; Tim Holtz Sizzix embossing folder; Core’dinations cardstock; Cuttlebug heart and star dies; Spellbinders circle die; lace.

10 comments:

  1. Beautiful cards, the neutral color scheme is perfect.

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  2. Wow! I really love the elegant simplicity of these cards! Great color!

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  3. Prachtige kaarten zer zeer mooi.
    Groetjes Marleen Berneel

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  4. Baie mooi, en die foto's is altyd nog beter as myne.
    Ek het ook 'n 2de serie kaarte gemaak vir die challenge van Hero Arts. Het jy ooit al 'n prys gewen by HA?

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  5. Your cards are absolutely gorgeous! I found your blog from the Little Scraps of Magic's blog. I joined CSI which I think is going to be fun! Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

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  6. Oh, my, these are beautiful! I just signed on to follow your blog, too...so wonderful!

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  7. Beautiful set of cards, that lace is so pretty! Happy new year!

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  8. You did such a great job with this set. The depth is amazing. ;)

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  9. Gorgeous set of cards! Congratulations on your win!

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  10. Stunning and perfect! Congrats on your FAB 5 win today! And so happy to see you as the new DT over Card Patterns!! Double Happiness!

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