Festive Friday

Well that has been a week of crazy busy and I really didn’t manage to get much finished in my crafting (plenty of bits in progress but nothing finished to share) but fortunately before the week had started I had managed to get the Festive Friday ready!

I went back to the Waffleflower pointsettia background but used it totally differently this time and combined it with those fab overlapping Christmas words stencils and dies.

This project was definitely a bit messy with both the texture paste and the ink all over my fingers – it meant I spent a fair amount of time cleaning up!

I did make a video of the process (but cut out most of the cleaning!) so check that out!

I used two pieces of purple cardstock to make the panels and inked both with Rich Razzleberry – one of them I went heavy with the ink, the other lighter just using the ink on the stencil and the brush.

For both I added the second stencil layer using iridescent texture paste – on the first I kept it as is, on the second I tinted it pink with some shimmer ink to keep the colour sparkly!

I then used pinks and purples for the words (this took two attempts as I messed up the first with a shifting stencil and inky fingers!)

I added some sparkly ribbon across the panel and then added the words and the stars to the fronts – one landscape and one portrait.

Added these toppers to the front of 5×7 card blanks and kept it simple as they really are so patterned and textured already with that background and the bold words!

Love how they came together (even if they did take a lot of cleaning up to make them!)

Happy crafting!

Catherine