Monochromatic Christmas by Brenda

Hello all, Brenda here again with some more Christmas inspiration. And for my top card I have used the lovely new Christmas Garden, there is so much detail and interest in it I wanted to keep this one simple. After stamping with Versafine I heat embossed with a black glitter EP mixture which I made up from several different colours to achieve a sparkly finish. All I then did was pick out some elements from the image and add crystal glitter and mat and layer onto the base card.

The Tomte stamp set proved to be very popular and sold out of the initial and backdated stock. I stamped this little fellow with Versafine Clair, coloured him in with sparkle pens and added some white puffy embossing powder to his hat and coat and matted onto a die cut frame and some Christmas DP.

Using one of the images from Shaded Baubles I stamped with Versafine and heat embossed with a deep blue sparkle EP, cut out a section of the card and cut out with a scalloped die. I then created a shaker card.............absolutely ages since I made one of those, added a sentiment and some sequins and mounted onto the base card.

As always, many thanks for popping by our blog today.

Candle glow by Brenda

Good morning Peeps, Brenda here with some Christmas shares from Lesley's July Hochanda shows.

For my first card I used the candle image from the new Christmas Circles stamp set, stamped onto linen cardstock and coloured in with Koh-i-Noor paints and some watered down Distress Ink washed around the edges and a little glitter added to the glow of the flames. A die cut frame placed over the image using foam pads to raise it before matting and layering onto red and white cardstock.

As I had some inchies on my desk from another project I thought I would use them for this card. I started by using two of the worker stamps from Christmas Garden and stamping with Versafine Clair. I inked the inchies with the same inks and then stamped the image from the new Tomte stamp set using Nocturne Versafine Clair and when dry added three layers of UTEE heat embossing each layer to build up a glazes finish. The sentiment is from Christmas Circles.

And this is the beautiful Christmas Garden, a new stamp with so much detail. The background is Brushos and the image stamped with Versafine Black and heat embossed with detail clear EP and the colour bleached out of some elements and a little white gel pen added to bring out detail.

Thanks as always for your visit and I hope I have inspired you to pop over the the website and take a closer look at the new stamps.