Three cheers for Christmas at Sweet Stampin' for making me get organised as by the time Christmas comes around I'll have at least 11 cards done and dusted. Not many, I know, but better than none!
We're starting a new challenge today with the theme of Festive Décor, giving you plenty of scope to create a card in whatever style you prefer.
Here's my DT creation
My goodness, did I have trouble taking a photo of this. I shouldn't complain about having sunshine here for once, but everywhere I put my card it was either too dark or too bright for a decent picture.
I used a Clearly Besotted set to stamp and die cut my wreath. Instead of adding the stamped embellies in the set, though, I opted for various sizes of enamel dots from Teresa Collins, Papermania and Papertrey Ink. The sentiment, also Papertrey Ink, was stamped with Versamark and sprinkled with platinum embossing powder for a bit of festive sparkle.
Unfortunately I won't be sending this card, at least, not without a little surgery first. The sentiment was originally stamped directly on the card base and I managed to make a right pig's ear of it. Rather than chuck the card, I cut another piece of black cardstock and re-stamped the sentiment on that. It was only when everything was stuck down, including the wreath, that I realised that I had stuck everything to the WRONG SIDE of the card, so the dodgy sentiment is still clearly visible on the back of the card :o(
I hope you can join in the fun with us at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' this month. The lovely Emma of Flat Friends is kindly giving away 2 of her brilliant digi images to our lucky winner, so why not play along? The CaSSettes have some brilliant inspiration cards to show you over on the challenge blog, so do check them out.
Enjoy the rest of your week!
Hugs
Tracey xx
5 comments:
Such a beautiful and elegant card Tracey ! Love it ! Hugs, blessings and love from Catherine
I suggest you chop the back of the card off, trim it down a smidge & remount it, a few of my cards have come about like that lol! No one will ever know ;-)
I still think it's beautiful though! xx
Fab card Tracey (even if you can still see the dodgy sentiment on the back!), its a very striking design.
Hope you're keeping well, Wedgie xxx
I love this Tracey, it's gorgeous and elegant.
Susan xx
hahahhah... you sound like me! Eleven cards for Christmas, I think I have ten because I had to duck out of a challenge but thank goodness for CASS, huh? hahahahha... the pig's ear thing, oh yeah, that's me too and I think I said that on the DT blog. Really, your story could be mine because these things happen to me all the time, sort of like an episode of 'I Love Lucy'.
It's a great card though and a brilliant design. The wreath looks like it was made especially for the buttons to be added and I also love the embossed sentiment.
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