Contemporary Christmas

Here's Christmas card number 2 of 2014 - in contemporary colours.

I do like non traditional colours for Christmas cards - you may have noticed this!

Barry on the other hand detests them - he is a traditionalist -

they have to be a combination of red, green and gold.

This is a design that I used last year in blue and white - you may recall it -

Magical season star

Tghis time I have used a colour combo of Smokey Slate, Blushing Bride and White.

The Pretty Print Textured Impressions Embossing Folder has been used for the background.

The Christmas Star and Magical season single stamps from the Autumn Winter catalogue

were used.

If you want to get these stamps you only have until the 28th of this month to get

them - then they will be gone forever!!

A few basic rhinestones and the jobs a good un (as they say!)

I am pleased with this!

All products are Stampin 'Up!

I would like to enter this in the Christmas Fun Challenge # 2 - Non Traditional Colours

http://laineyscraftyspace-christmasfun.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/non-traditional-colours.html

Special Christmas Card

Yesterday I started making my special cards for friends and relatives.

Here is the one I have made for sister Maggie and husband Gerald.

I spotted the inspiration for this on Debbie Henderson's blog

and altered it slightly to suit the personalised cards I had computer generated.

I used Versamark and Pewter embossing powder then heat embossed a Tea Lace  doily

to give this beautiful sheen on the doily.

The Christmas Star (single stamp) was stamped in Versamark and covered in 

Heat and Stick Powder, heat applied to melt the powder then Black Stampin' Glitter

was applied and heat set.  The star was then fussy cut, shaped and glued on top of the doily.

Thanks for the inspiration Debbie - appreciated xx

Magical Season Star

Had a great time at Christine's yesterday and made a great card for Eva's birthday, 

which I will show you nearer the date!

Chris has bought the single stamp Magical Season, which I wasn't sure about,

but after I had seen it stamped on one of her creations, it made my mind up.

I will just have to have it!!  

I did the next best thing and stamped and embossed a few impressions with it.

Here's one of the cards I made using it last night when I got home.

(I googled Christmas Star and found this little beauty)

Isn't that star awesome!! Its's another of the single stamps that are currently available.

It's called (as you might guess) Christmas star, and it works quite well with the sentiment I think.

The colour conbo is soft Sky and White with silver embossing on the sentiment( Magical Season)

The back ground was done with the Pretty Print Textured Impressions folder.

The only embellishments are a few basic Rhinestones.

All products used are Stampin' Up!

Well I think this is awesome - what do you think?