Wednesday 2 July 2008

Three Challenges - One Card

This card has been in my head now since I made hubby's birthday card. As the idea formed I thought great, I can make that for Fab's Big Christmas Challenge this month. It also works for the Daring Cardmakers challenge this week as the theme is "Christmas in June" and my third challenge is My Time to Craft where this weeks's theme is "Seasons".

The card was made using a limited edition stamp from Elusive Images which has been made for members of the Graphicus Guild. I stamped the image in black Archival Ink, then created masks by stamping on to scrap paper and cutting out the elements I wanted to mask. With my masks in place I was able to use my brayer to colour the hills in the background and then to colour the sky using Adirondack dye based inks. The Christmas star was stamped with a stamp from Clarity Stamp and heat embossed using a mix of gold and holographic embossing powders. I mixed them as I wanted only just a hint of sparkle. I then added snow to the tops of the hills and on the trees with a white Sakura Souffle Pen and finally added another hint of sparkle using Stickles glitter glue in "Frosted Lace". The Frosted Lace is not a very sparkly glitter so it's quite subtle. The backing paper is from the Artylicious Season's Greetings CD set and the words are from a favorite Christmas Carol - "In the Bleak Mid Winter".

17 comments:

  1. Wow, what a fab card. It it very dramatic, love it.

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  2. Beautiful, simply beautiful.

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  3. What a beautiful card Phree (when you get to know me better, you'll know that this is high praise as I'm not a big fan of christmas cards!) I've been browsing your blog and I think your work is simply stunning.

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  4. Beautiful card, the image is gorgeous! Thanks for joining in with the MTTC challenge :o) Jo x

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  5. Beautiful card Phree, thanks for taking part in the MTTC challenge this week xx

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  6. fab card - thank you for joining the challenge this week xx

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  7. Wowsiers! This card is beautiful!
    Thanks for sharing!!...Jan

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  8. How do all of you girls do these challenges? Let alone combind 3 into 1? You are so crafty!

    Jacqueline
    SBS#20

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  9. Hi phree..... fellow sbs sistah here hope your well L x x

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  10. Wow Phree this card is fantastic.. I'm so glad you got it out of your head & onto a card. well done. xxxx

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  11. Gorgeous! I cant believe that is a stamp it looks like a photo.

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  12. WOW

    Really effective!! Love the image too

    We have 20 SBS members now and I have left Tracy a message as I know Tessa and yourself kindly offered to be the groups Admins. Hopefully Tracy will update soon.

    Happy Stampin
    TC
    Carol

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  13. Oh my word!! This is just simply stunning!!!!!

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  14. Beautiful card - love the lace along the edge too, really wonderful!

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  15. This is so beautiful! The colours, the design and layout... everything is wonderful.

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  16. A beautiful whimsical card Phree ! I feel like I'm back in Québec in my youth ! Thanks for playing... Hugz Fab

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  17. Lovely card, very detailed! thanks for taking part! :-)

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