Saturday 19 November 2016

One design, three stamp sets, three cards ...

Good afternoon!  It's a chilly day in the UK ... I guess winter is already here!

If you are a regular visitor to my blog you will know that I am behind with creating my Christmas cards and keep trying to find a design that I can replicate easily - last week I had some success but I do get easily bored making the same design over and over again!!  So this morning I started the quest again ... today's card is inspired by the challenge over at "Less is More" where the theme is 'Vintage'.  As I'm pretty vintage myself I thought about cards that I received years ago ... my overriding memory is of glitter and I don't do glitter so I had to start again.

This is the card ... or I should say cards!



I began with a panel of kraft card and heat embossed the sleigh stamp and sentiment with gold embossing powder.  On the card based I stamped the snowflakes with versamark ink to give the tone on tone effect.  I popped the stamped image onto the base with a smaller piece of fun foam.

I also made two others:



I used:

STAMPlorations:  Believe in Magic; Celebrate the Season and Peace, Love, Joy
WOW Gold Embossing Powder
Versamark Ink

I'm entering the following challenges:

"Less is More" #303 - Theme Vintage

STAMPlorations Never-ending Anything Goes


Penny Black and More - November Challenge  Anything Christmas

Enjoy!

7 comments:

  1. Simply splendid makes and well done on finishing more for your 2016 quota of Christmas cards

    Kathyk

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  2. These are beautiful cards Elaine. The images are wonderfully vintage and look great in the gold embossing. The tone on tone snowflakes look so pretty but I must admit that the last two cards have stolen my heart as they are CAS-tastic. Thanks so much for sharing these with us at Less is More. xx

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  3. These look great Elaine! I love the use of Kraft and gold which gives both a vintage and a luxurious feel... fab! Congrats on increasing your card total, and good luck for getting them all done :D Thanks for playing along with us at Less is More :)

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  4. I love the effect that gold and kraft creates, Elaine and the stamplorations images are perfect for our vintage style theme this week, too. I can never quite settle on a single design for Christmas cards either but it is fun trying out the different ideas! Great to see you at Less is More this week :)

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  5. What a very elegant card and perfect for our theme at Penny Black and More challenges, many thanks for joining in.

    B x

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  6. Beautifully CAS - love the design. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Penny Black & More this month. Lynn x DT

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  7. Very pretty - I really love the "extra" of snowflakes falling for the sleigh image.

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