Guest Post - Christmas Robin by Pauline Orr

This week sees the first of three contributions from Pauline Orr using our brand new Christmas stamps, Snowy Scenes and Turtle Doves. So sit back, relax and enjoy this tutorial. 

This is an 8"x 8" card

Materials

Turtle Doves and Snowy Scenes stamp sets

Chocolate Baroque Christmas sentiment

Black matt card, craft card and stamping card

Small tag

Distress paint

Distress ink

Archival Jet Black

Gold acrylic

Alcohol markers

Diamond Stickles

Distress Rock Candy glitter

Tim Holtz die

Raffia ribbon

1. First I matted and layered black card onto an 8"x 8" card blank.
2. Next I cut a smaller craft card layer and painted it with gold acrylic.
3. My next layer was a piece of black matt card on which I stamped the corner branch from the Turtle Doves in gold acrylic. When it was dry I added Diamond Stickles to the berries to give it a little more Christmas bling.
4. I then cut a stamping card layer roughly 6" x 6"
5. I splodged Distress paints onto my craft sheet and spritzed with water and dragged through the stamping card until I got a satisfactory covering (I did leave a little white card in places). I also dragged my tag through the paint so they matched.
6. When this was dry I over stamped with the snowflake stamps in contrasting Distress ink and gold acrylic paint and did the same on the tag.
7. Moving onto the tag, I stamped the sentiment in Archival Jet Black and heat set it.
8. Using the fab little robin stamp from the Snowy Scene stamp  plate I stamped onto stamping card using Archival. I then used a combination of Distress ink and a tiny bit of alcohol markers to colour. Shouldn't really use archival with alcohol pens but I was careful so as not to contaminate it. I then cut out the robin.
9. After gluing all the layers I positioned my tag and then glued the robin in place. I used a white pen to go around the robin and highlight the sentiment, just to make it pop a little more.
10. I added a poinsettia and a raffia bow and finished off with a little rock candy glitter. 

So there you have it. I thoroughly enjoyed using these stamps, always get a wonderful response from recipients and they are so easy to use. Being a huge Glenda Waterworth and Chocolate Baroque stamp fan I was honoured and excited to be asked to do this GDT.

  

You can see more pictures of this card on my blog

https://mrsocraftyblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Crafty Hugs

Pauline xxx

Thank you Pauline for this gorgeous Christmas card, and for the in depth tutorial.  I hope you can show your appreciation by leaving a comment and don't forget to pop over to Pauline's blog for more inspiration.