Christmas Class Sparkly Card
One of the cards we’re going to be making this month at Christmas In July classes is this one …
Not your traditional Christmas colours!
The stamps I’ve used for the tree, the snowflake background and the greeting are all from the set Snow Swirled on page 30. As soon as I saw that tree I knew what technique I wanted to try with it. The tree has been stamped in Versamark then embossed with a mixture of approx 2/3 silver embossing powder and 1/3 blue glitter from the Fine Supernova set of 5 glitters on pg 145. A rhinestone brad just sets it off.
The silver with a hint of blue sparkle looks quite effective. I experimented a bit with the mix until I had the amount of blue I was after. Just add a little at a time. I’ve kept the leftover mix in an old brad container ready for next time I want some sparkly silver blue. Mind you I did use quite a bit of mine as I made 11 of these for a team Christmas card swap.
If you’re coming along to a class or workshop you’ll be able to see all the gorgeous cards I received back in the swap. Gotta love swaps! Here’s my mass producing efforts!
My newsletter will be heading to inboxes soon. Just putting on some finishing touches.
Hannah (6) has been busy in my ‘leftovers’ box. Here’s what she came up with. We always get along particularly well on the school holidays. More time to do things like this and less ‘hurry up and eat your breakfast/get dressed/clean teeth’ and so on I think! We’re quite likely to be in our jammies til mid morning when there’s no school.
If school holidays are part of your life this week, I hope they’ve gotten off to a great start. We’ve been having lots of fun so far – I love the relaxed pace of school holiday life. Today we’re having a bit of a quiet potter about at home day. I always smile a bit to see what weird and wacky games Hannah and Jack come up with 10 minutes or so after their, ‘MUUUUUM, I”M BOOOOORED’ falls on deaf ears. Well they do say boredom is the mother of invention!
Today it included jigsaws, running laps of the house til they were red in the face then something involving much giggling and lying under the kitchen table with their legs stuck in the air! Think you might have to be 6 and 2 for that one!
Cheers, Sue
