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Saturday 28 November 2015

A Christmas Flower


Hello everyone, I have another project using one of the large Flowerhead collection stamps from Chocolate Baroque to show you today. I have really enjoyed creating projects with these lovely large stamps, great for creating a focal point on a card. I have chosen to use the Circle Centre Flowerhead for this project.

I created my background by covering a gelli plate with turquoise ink, using a brayer. I used a piece of white card to take a print from the gelli plate, taking care to smooth the back of the card thoroughly. This is a really quick way of colouring a piece of card if you want a single colour. Once the card was dry, I stamped and embossed a harlequin design from the Harlequin Fragments stamp set onto the background, using Versamark and gold embossing powder.

I used Fired Brick Distress Ink and water to flick onto my background with an old toothbrush as I wanted splashes of red over the rest of the background, and a little bit of gold shimmer, using a Wink of Stella gold pen.

I stamped and embossed the flower onto red vellum twice, using Versamark and gold embossing powder, and cut it out. I added a leafy die cut, and matching dark green matting to complete my card.

Well, that's another Christmas card completed thankfully, not long to go now! Thanks for stopping by, xx


2 comments:

Paula (PEP) said...

Very effective use of the red for the sentiment & focal flower with the small red accents in the background to echo. I like your use of the non-traditional flower with the traditional red & green colours plus the pine leaves as well as the gold making it seasonal. As always the way you balance your designs is a treat to see.
Paula (PEP)

cuilliesocks said...

Hi Judith, I love your card and it's amazing colours. I do like how you've used the large flower head to create a Christmas card. Your background colour and images are brilliant, Kate x

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