May your Christmas sparkle

Crafty Roo HQ is all busy at the moment getting organised for our next shows, we have 3 shows over the next 3 weeks, so it is case of trying to get all those ducks lined up - but you always one waddling off in the wrong direction!  

So, whilst Little Man has decided to have a quick 40 winks I thought I would take 5 minutes and share with you another of our new Christmas Stamps "May your Christmas Sparkle" and it has been teamed up with the Sparkle Flourish.

This one was so quick I even shocked myself!

All I did was cut a 7.5 inch square piece of white car and embossed the Sparkle Flourish a few times on the right, then distressed over it, mounted it onto a bigger piece of blue card an tied a ribbon down the left hand side and mounted onto an 8 inch square base card.

I then stamped the saying onto ta piece of white card, trimmed it down and lightly distressed it. then over the top I added stardust embossing powder to really make it sparkle and then mounted it too onto blue card.

Finally I attached the saying to the card and added some gems and pins.

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Seasons Greetings

It feels so strange to sit and make Christmas cards when we are having such lovely weather and even more so after spending yesterday playing on the beach and today wandering around the Zoo! 

Anyway back to the serious stuff - NEW STAMPS!!!!!!! 

This card is one of the first cards I made using our NEW Christmas Tree - Seasons Greetings and Sparkle Flourish Stamps and I love it! From start to finish everything just worked and I am so please with the finished card.

I started by stamping the Christmas Tree onto white card in clear ink and adding Silver embossing powder. This was then trimmed down and distressed using Faded Jeans when I was happy I "polished" the embossing using a piece of kitchen roll. Using Faded Jeans and a water brush I then coloured in the star, trunk and open letters (greetings).

Next I cut a 7.5 inch square piece of white card and across it I stamped Sparkle Flourish and embossed them in silver. I did the top 2 rows then the bottom 2 and then finally the middle one so that the ink didn't dry before I put the embossing powder on.This was then distressed and polished as before.

The embossed flourish was then mounted onto the blue piece of card 0.5 inch bigger than the white and a piece of cord added. all of this when then attached to the front of an 8 inch square card.

The Christmas Tree was then mounted onto blue card too with a brad added to each corner and then attached to the front of the card.

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