Non-Traditional Christmas Colours?

Hello everyone, I have some more Christmas projects to share with you today, featuring some of the stamps that we used on last month's TV shows on Hochanda.

For my first project, I have created a piece of home decor in soft vintage colours. I wanted to use very non-traditional Christmas colours, and this soft pink and green was exactly what I had in mind for my project. I used a flat canvas that folds up into shape from my stash, which I painted with acrylic paint, and added some ivy die cuts all around the edge of the reverse, intending to use the canvas like a box frame of sorts. I painted a piece of dictionary paper with the same acrylic paint, but thinning the paint, so that it allowed the words to remain visible.

I used Pearl Soft Form Relief Paste, coloured with green Brushos to create my focal images, and these were left to dry overnight. I dry brushed some of the same colour of Soft Form Relief Paste over the ivy leaves, which acted as a kind of gilding paste, and it gives a lovely shimmer to the leaves.

Once the two pears were set, I peeled them from the stamps, trimmed the rough edges, and added a tough of gold gilding paste to the surface, before adhering them inside the canvas. I could have added more embellishments, or a sentiment, but quite like this simple look.

My second project is much more colourful, but again using very non-traditional Christmas colours. It must have been the hot weather, creating Christmas cards in a heatwave definitely felt very odd!

I created a background using Distress Inks, and added the large textured background image from the Pears and Baubles stamp set. I stuck to the same coloured inks as I had used to create the original background, building up the feeling of depth.

I stamped and embossed three baubles onto a spare piece of card and cut them out. I attached them to the background, along with some bold purple ribbon.

A sentiment from the Let's Get Festive stamp set completes the card.

Thanks for stopping by, xx