A Child is born

Good Morning everyone

These Christmas cards came about after id made these (see here) everyday cards with off cuts of acetate.  I always make a few nativity based Christmas cards and thought this really old chocolate baroque stamp would look great with acetate for a stained window effect.  Ive kept everything else white so the colour really pops. 

Card size 6.5x5.5"    I first stamped the image onto acetate with stazon ink, then on the back i added colour with alcohol inks.  I attached strips of white linen card to either side, i added a little tacky pva to each side of the image and then the white card on top, so no glue is on the actual stamped image.  I then added 3d foam to the back of the white card panels and added to my cardbase.  This lifts the image enough for the light to shine through.  

The strips added either side were actually the offcuts from cutting my base card so i didn't need to cut into another sheet of card.

I stamped the image again onto white, added subtle colour with alcohol markers and cut out just mary and child, this i glued flat into place on the window.  Computer printed sentiment and glitter glue to finish. 

You can really see the diamond stickles i used on the halo's

Version 2 using blue, lilac & green alcohol inks and star dust stickles

and version 3, the alcohol inks are more mottled on this version

Items Used:

Chocolate baroque stamp set - a child is born

Ranger Tim Holtz alcohol inks

Acetate

Ranger stickles glitter glue - diamond, star dust

CraftUk Ltd white linen cardstock

Thank you all for popping by.  Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2021/11/peace-on-earth-christmas-challenge-4.html

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http://thehollyandivychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/11/challenge-106-anything-christmas-goes.html

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Seasons Greetings

 Good Morning everyone, where do the days go to?

Time for a new challenge over at Alphabet Challenge

The theme for the next fortnight is:

SEASONS GREETINGS

So a really easy one, anything christmas goes

Approx 7.5x7.5" in size.  I first stamped my bells twice, i cut one into a hexagon, coloured the 2nd one with wink of stella pens and fussy cut out.  Using yellow/orange inks i stenciled stars around the base layer of bells. 

Using white and black card i cut a base card and frames to surround my bell layer.  The white frame i mounted on foam tape and glued my base layer of bells into the middle. I gently shaped the cut out bells and glued on top of the base layer with glue gel. 

For the floral arrangement i used rolled roses handmade for me years ago by the lovely ChrisLee from docrafts - thank you Chris😀.  I added pine leaves under the rose. 

Close up shows the shimmer of the wink of stella pens better, i added some white gel pen highlights to the bells too. Ive had this bell stamp for years on a stamp plate by chocolate baroque so good to finally make use of it. 

A blue version

and a purple version

This close up really does show up the shimmer of the wink of stella pens.  Most definitely my favourite buy of 2018. 

Items Used:

Chocolate Baroque stamps 'A child is born'

Cheerylynn pine branch dies

Star stencil

Large Stitched hexagon dies

Wink of stella pens

White gel pen

Do hop over to Alphabet Challenge to join in with your Christmas cards or just seen what everyone else comes up with at Alphabet Challenge

Well the first week of December has flown by, we have a party to attend this weekend for 2 of my nieces birthdays, so looking forward to that, im sure there will be lots of fun and laughter.  So i hope you all have a good weekend too. Thank you for stopping by. Emmax