My Time to Craft #412 Christmas Flowers

Hello, my dearios! I hope all is well with you. I am just back from Friday evening Choir Practice, which is always such a lovely way to end the week. And tomorrow morning we're singing carols in Saino's to raise money for our local Hospice! Christmas is coming!

And so our new Challenge at My Time to Craft is Christmas Flowers.


I have used the gorgeous Christmas Florals Stamp and die by Concord & 9th. I stamped the image using my MISTI using Antique Linen ink. I left the stamp in the MISTI while I coloured the flowers with Copics. Then I put the card back in the MISTI and re-stamped with Versamark and gold-embossed it.

Copics and embossing DO NOT MIX so this is the best way to do it.

Then I cut it out with a matching die and matted it on red cardstock. Finally I embossed one of the sentiments from the stamp set in white on black, cut it out, and added it to the card. I want to try this image with coloured pencils and with watercolour, too!

My teamies have made some gorgeous cards to inspire you! Go and see!

Thanks for looking, and I hope the run-up to Christmas isn't stressing you out!

love Mags B x





Comments

Lynne in NI said…
Ohhh this is gorgeous Mags, bet that gold embossing looks amazing in real life!
Thank you so much for the beautiful Christmas card you sent, Mum was admiring it earlier! Hope you had fun at your carol singing xx
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Faith A at Daffodil Cards said…
This is gorgeous and certainly worth the extra time to get it right.
Faith x
Sunday, December 15, 2019
KraftyKoolKat said…
A really traditional beauty Mags.
Hugs
Cathy
xxxx😁
Monday, December 16, 2019
Lynne in NI said…
Merry Christmas Mags, hope whatever you're up you have a great time!
I can't remember if I thanked you for the beautiful card you sent, so just in case .... Thank You! xx
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
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