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Saturday, 10 December 2016

Watercolour And Embossing Christmas cards


I have made my own Christmas cards for my colleagues for a few years now. I've posted some of my previous ones here, here (I really loved these!!) and even older ones here. I like to keep them at the 10x10cm size (about 4x4 inches) as I can get three cards from one A4 sheet of card. I need to make about 25 of them, so I want them to be easy and not have too many steps.

For this year's design I though I would try two different colourful backgrounds - one using watercolours and one using Brushos. I think I prefer the Brushos over the watercolour, although I think the more even colour of the watercolour background will let the embossed image stand out better. I just randomly applied watercolours / sprinkled the Brushos and heat embossed stamps from the STAMPlorations Joyful set in either gold or gunmetal silver.

 

I'm linking up with the following challenges:
AAA Card Challenges - Christmas
ABC Christmas Challenges - Y is for Yikes (there is less than two weeks left until Christmas...)
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Silver or Grey 
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra - ATG




And here is a look at the whole batch together.
Card: 250 gsm white card
Stamps: STAMPlorations Joyful 
Ink and colouring: Versamark, Gansai Tambi, Brushos
Other: Gold and gunmetal embossing powder
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5 comments:

  1. Dorte11 December 2016 at 18:36

    I love those CAS Christmas cards. Thank you so much for sharing it with us at ABC Christmas Challenge.
    Dorte x

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  2. Stephanie Lanzalotto12 December 2016 at 18:55

    Fantastic group of cards. I love those images, and they look wonderful with the color over the embossing. Thanks for linking up and playing our Christmas Challenge at AAA Cards.

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  3. Hazel14 December 2016 at 11:22

    Thanks for entering both of my CHNC challenges with your lovely crafting - hope to see you again soon. x

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  4. Lorraine A16 December 2016 at 16:34

    Gorgeous cards, love the techniques you used, the designs are very arty and awesome! :-)

    thanks for joining us on the ABC Christmas Challenge
    luv
    Lols x x x

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  5. Ksenija @Sweet Kobylkin17 December 2016 at 20:47

    Oh, Dear, you did a great job. Love all these cards - festive, bright and easy to create. Thank you so much for sharing them with us at AAA Cards Challenge. - Sweet Kobylkin

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Please feel free to leave any comments you have, I read them all and appreciate them very much, they truly make my day! I also want to send out a huge thank you to all you challenge DT members for your comments, encouragement and wonderful, inspirational creations.