Red and Gold Poinsettia (by Rachel)

Hello everyone, today sees the first of three posts this month from our Guest Design Team member Rachel Fisher. Rachel has created a very striking Christmas card for her first project.

To create her card, Rachel first covered the Big Bold Background Poinsettia stamp with Gold Soft Form Relief Paste, and allowed this to dry for twenty four hours. Once the paste was completely dry, she peeled the film from the stamp and stamped the image again onto red card. She fussy cut the image, and decoupaged it, layering it onto the gold image.

Rachel will be back next week with another project. Thanks for stopping by,

Big Bold Poinsettias (posted by Claire)

Good morning, Claire here with a card featuring the Poinsettia Big Bold Background stamp, you can find it here with all the lovely newly released stamps. I wanted to make a simple card that wouldn't be too expensive to post and these beautifully detailed stamps are just the job.

I stamped the image in memento tuxedo black and coloured with Graph'It markers, adding some gold stickles in the centres. I've used a corner rounder punch and edged the image with a gold krylon pen. To finish off I've stamped the sentiment from Gothic Angels and embossed with gold embossing powder. I've matted the image on some kraft card.

Thanks for popping by, 

Christmas cards, batch style (posted by Judith)

Hi folks, I have a couple of quick cards to show you today. I am always in a hurry as Christmas is approaching to get all of my cards made, and these new Big Backgrounds are just perfect for batch making. My first card uses the Poinsettia background stamp. I have created a background using alcohol inks, and then stamped onto the card using a dark green archival inkpad. The background was so pretty that I didn't want to add anything to the flowers themselves, apart from a few beads in the centres. I stamped a sentiment from the Gothic Angels stamp sheet, and placed this onto a piece of red satin ribbon across the card. This card was made very quickly, and could easily be made in batches.

My second card uses the Snowflake Shadow Big Background stamp.I have embossed the background using clear embossing powder, and then blended three different colour blue Distress Inks over the background. I have added a sentiment from the Pears and Baubles stamp sheet. I die cut a Crealie open flower which looks just like a snowflake when you cut it with white card, and matches the stamp very well. Some organza ribbon and a large gem finish the card.

So, I am well on my way with my Christmas cards, several more to go, but these stamps have got me in the mood to make some batches of cards. I hope that I have inspired you to have a go as well. Thanks for stopping by, Judith xx