I love the combination of red and green together so traditional Christmas cards and decorations are right up my street….
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Starting with a #8 manilla tag and Tea dye DI, I blended ink around the outside before dabbing the square pad onto it, repeatedly.
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The red
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(Festive berries) and green (Shabby shutters) was then blended, randomly, all over the top before misting it with water so that the inks blended.
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Using one of Sue Wilson’s bauble stamps and Versamark
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embossing pad I stamped it onto kraft card. Super-fine gold embossing powder made sure that all the fine detail was retained once the powder was heated.
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These stamps coordinate with a set of baubles dies so I used the matching one to cut it out. Next it was coloured with the red and green DIs before being edged in brown. I also cut a bauble top from gold mirri card and glued it to the top.
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Using a polka dot embossing folder, I embossed the bottom half of the tag before carefully rubbing the Tea dye DI pad over it to highlight the spots.
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The quotation stamp was stamped with Coffee archival ink. The stamp itself comes from
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Darcy’s Eclectica³ EDY03 collection. Next I stamped part of the fir branch from Lin Brown’s Eclectica³ ELB10 collection. Using a very fine nibbed black art pen I drew some thread from where the top of the bauble will be placed to the fir branch.
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Before attaching the bauble, I took a strip of kraft card and inked it with the Tea dye DI and added some brads.
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This will form a neat divide between the non/embossed sections of the tag. The baubles die set also contains some lovely oval embossed words which fit in the centres. I’ve used the ‘joy’ one cut
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in kraft and inked over. I also glued some fine sprinkles top right using Glossy accents and a bow at the top of the (drawn) thread. The final embellishment is a length of cream American seam binding dipped in watered down DI.
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Top:
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Bottom:
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Complete:
Have a great day and thanks for dropping by. >:o)
Chris xxx
This is fabulous Chris...and very festive x
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