Hello peeps, yes I know, it’s hot and sunny outside and I’m still dreaming of a White Christmas! Can’t help it I’m afraid, so I have another Christmas card for you today, this one in a vintagey style using the free digital vintage carols that were on my desk for this weeks What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday.
I started with half a sheet of 12×12 kraft card to make the base in order to completely fit a piece of the wonderful BoBunny paper on it, this is a sheet from the Father Christmas pack from a couple of years ago. I distressed it a bit with DI Tea Dye and Walnut Stain and added some Aged Gold Frantage embossing powder on some of the edges. Frantage is my new favourite thing in the entire world, it really is totally cool and groovy, tons of fun! The vintage Christmas carol is a free digi download from Flikr, you can find it here, along with lots of other vintage ephemera you can use in your projects. I printed four of these on good quality inkjet paper after resizing them in Word and then tore it, rolled the corner, pulled little bits off it, attacked it with an edge distresser and then inked it up with the Tea Dye and the Walnut stain again. The green lace trim from Pink Paislee was then added and the base card was stuck down to the kraft.
The focal image is part of a clear Inkadinkado set that I totally forgot to get the name of! I stamped it in Versamark on an offcut of cream card and embossed it in gold EP from JoAnn before dabbing around the outside with the DI inks again. It was mounted on to a scrap of burgundy card and had a couple of pieces of ribbon scraps folded over and adhered to the underside. It was popped up on foam tape too.
The card sat like this for a couple of days until I decided I wanted a flower spray on the left, so I played about with some flowers from WOC and a fantastic, vintage, crystal spray kindly sent to me from my friend Mary in CA.
I added a bit of Frosted Lace stickles to the flowers and twirled the stems of the crystal spray around a toothpick and stuck the whole lot down with glossy accents. One final pic for you, sorry these are a bit off in terms of the light conditions btw, but I was playing around quite a bit trying not to have the lights bounce of the gold embossing too much and it wasn’t easy!!
Very pleased with the way this whole card turned out, especially as I kept going back to it for half an hour here and there, it sort of evolved instead of being planned!
Card Recipe:
- Card: The Paper Company
- DP: BoBunny Father Christmas ~ Free Christmas carol download from Flikr
- Stamp: Inkadinkado clear set
- Ink: Versamark ~ Distress Ink Tea Dye & Walnut Stain
- Embellies: Frantage Aged Gold & JoAnn embossing powders ~ Green lace trim from Pink Paislee ~ Green gingham ribbon free from a UK card magazine ~ Red/Green ribbon from JoAnn ~ Frosted Lace Stickles ~ WOC flowers ~ Spray from The Scrapbook Store (thank you Mary Mac!)
- Tools: Heat Gun ~ Computer & Printer
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Challenges:
Sketch & Stash ~ Current sketch plus neglected stamp, hoarded paper (only used one other sheet!), new crystal spray, new digi printouts
Christmas Cards All Year Round ~ Vintage Christmas
Crafty Hazels Christmas Extra ~ Anything Goes
Jingle Belles ~ We Wish You A Digital Christmas (whohoo! that was a stroke of luck!!)
Pixies Crafty Workshop ~ Use Up Your Scraps (The kraft card base, the burgundy and cream card for the tree image and two ribbon scraps!)
Stampin’ For The Weekend ~ Anything Goes
Crafty Ribbons ~ Flowers Galore
Sarn from Stamping For Pleasure said:
OMG . . . this is so opulent and wonderful. I LOVE the Frantage stuff too . . . . I think I might have to get it in the Aged Gold now too! xxx
Famfa said:
Classy x
Di said:
WOW and double WOW!! This is stunning Brenda – I love it! Beautiful in every detail.
Hugs, Di xx
~@ngie~ aka JustAng aka Angie said:
what a stunning card… I love everything about it… but I still dont want Christmas yet hehehe am enjoying the extra warmth for a while or whilst it lasts anyways 😉 hehehe
Thanx for joining in with us over at Sketch N Stash…. good luck 🙂
hugz Angie xXx
Eliza said:
Really beautiful card especially love the embossing
Hugs elizan
Marie Bingaman said:
Wonderfully aged looking card! 🙂
Hettie said:
Wonderful card there Brenda. Love all the layers.
Hugs
xx
Hazel said:
Stunningly beautiful vintage card – love everything about it, especially that embossed tree – thanks for sharing for my CHNC challenge extra for June – I look forward to seeing more of your lovely festive creativity x
Sandy Dehon said:
Brenda this is absolutely gorgeous – one of the prettiest Christmas creations that I have seen in a very long time!!!!
sandy
Cornelia said:
Wow, this is gorgeous – so elaborate! You really created a masterpiece here! Thanks for your sweet blog comment!
Cindy said:
Beautiful card. Love the embossed tree along with the heat embossing on the top and bottom corners. That adds such a great vintage feel to it. The music paper in the background is a great touch. Thanks for joining us at Christmas cards all Year Round. Come back next month to play again.
Cyndie R said:
Wow, that is one gorgeous card. Love everything about it!
Darnell said:
I am tipped over in awe, B! When you get it finished, make sure you post the little gift card that you are going to INCLUDE WITH THIS GIFT, ’cause that, that is not a card, girl. Dang.
lauren said:
holy moly, missus, what a ♥MASTERPIECE♥!!! absolute perfection in every detail, and my next stop is to click the link and grab some of those gorgeous vintage music sheets! amazing! thanks for playing along with us at JINGLE BELLES it is always a pleasure to see what you will make! 🙂
smilynstef said:
Love how you used the gold embossing powder on the background … will have to tuck that technique away for future use … also fantastic job of aging your holiday carol … what a stunning design … so very glad you joined our digital fun at Jingle Belles.
Pauline wheeler said:
Oh my! This is my kind of card, thanks for sharing with us at crafty ribbons challenge
P x
Elaine said:
Stunning christmas card, so so pretty! Thank you for joining us at Crafty Ribbons, hope to see you join us again soon 🙂 Elaine DT -xxx- I have Crafty Ribbons candy on my blog hop if you would like to enter! http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/all-crafts-challenge-blog-hop-and.html
Judy said:
Lovely card! I just love everything about this! . Thanks for sharing at Christmas Cards All year Round and good luck with the Challenge. Judy DT x
Rebekah said:
This is fab Brenda I love the vintage look Thanks for sharing with us at stampin for the weekend! Hugs Rebekah xx
Paula Gale said:
fabulous card Brenda. Love the papers and the embossed tree. Thanks for the link to the ephemera – very useful to know about in the future.
Your card turned out great – the hard part now is picking who you think deserves it…
Paula x x x
Paula Gale said:
wow Brenda, this is gorgeous. Love all the layering, the flowers, the frantage touches… someone very special is gonna get this card!!
Paula x x x