Festive Friday

Now July is over I’m back to the weekly challenge of a festive project once a week – rather than the mammoth effort of daily! Having said that it might be a challenge given that I might have Christmas burnout after all those festive projects – but I will give it a go! Starting easy with these ones…

Today I have two cards made using up inky/gelli print backgrounds and the rub ons I had in my stash for years and finally found a way I love using them … and now have no more but a real urge to buy more as they look so fab on the inky and gelli print backgrounds!

Let’s start with this one … the rub on element was done a while ago for both cards and then these just sat in the box of ready made backgrounds to play with in future. Well when I came across the little Darcy Paperartsy trees I stamped and set aside I decided they were perfect for these backgrounds when watercoloured with matching colours.

This one I did doing some stencilling on the background with the enamel accents (an idea I got from old craft stamper magazines and had never tried before !)

Then I mat the background and the stamped and coloured image with black.

On the snow on the stamped image I added a bit of glitter glue just to add a little extra sparkle. And I did raise up the stamped image a bit with some cardstock behind to give dimension.

This one I added two strips of sparkly glimmer paper on either side of where I had added the rub ons. Then I used some embroidery floss threads behind the trees and fussy cut them. This time a little strip of foam behind them gave them dimension and I added the panel to the dark green cardstock.

Just love how these came out … and I have so many premade inky and gelli print backgrounds I am really tempted to order more rub ons so I can do these kinds of projects again!

Hmmmm…. Temptation is not good when trying to be more frugal with my crafting spends!

Ah well two more cards made for my Festive Friday challenge!

Happy crafting!

Catherine