Bah! Humbug! Challenge ... Christmas Trees...

Wow a really easy peasy week at Bah! Humbug! this time.  Christmas Trees - how much scope is there in that theme?  For my card I used a Dreamweaver brass stencil, embossed it using my Big Shot and then coloured using ink dusters and shades of green Adirondack ink with a touch of yellow for the star and brown for the base.  The strip of green in the lower part of the card was scored on my Scor pal and then pleated.  I attached it using Pinflair to give the pleats support.

Spotty paper by DCWV I think!

Additional challenges...

• CCEE Stampers - Create a Christmas Card
• Crafty Purple Frog - Green
• Some Odd Girl - Pleat Something

Have a great day everyone.  I'm off to the NEC so I'm really excited.  Do try to pop over to Bah! Humbug! if you have chance.  It's the last week for our Guest Designers and they have really gone out with a bang.  Their contributions this week are totally mind blowing.

Ann xxx

Something a little bit different...

I bought the amazing forest brass stencil by Dreamweaver some time ago and the first time I tried it with embossing paste I loved the result, but wasn't quite sure how to colour it or use the finished piece on a card.  Having found it in one of my drawers during the mass sort out session (alongside quite a few other unused, but still loved items) I decided to get into action instead of being such a wimp.  The following is a quick write up of the method I used to create the tree scene...

1. Taped stencil to black card.
2. Applied white embossing paste to whole area as evenly and smoothly as possible.
3. Carefully unpeeled the tape and lifted off the stencil to be washed.
4. Allowed paste to dry completely and then lay stencil back on top.
5. Attached a card circular mask where I wanted the moon to be.  
6. Using a stencil brush applied Distress Inks to the create the background.  (Denim and Pine)
7. Removed the moon mask.
8. Trimmed and sprayed with Crafter's Companion Silver Glitter Spray (also used on embossed panel on card and the punched border).

I'm am totally obsessed with the Crafter's Companion Spray.  It is just gorgeous.  Once you start using it the temptation to spray everything is just way tooooooooooo much.  I haven't got shares in the company or being paid in anyway to say that - honestly this is really magical stuff.

My card was made with the following challenges in mind...

• Friday Sketchers - a great sketch for a large focal image - thank you guys
• Crafty Ann's - Embossing (paste counts too I'm sure)
• One Stop Craft Challenge - One for the boys (think my card could be either really, but it's certainly not girlie)
• A Spoonful of Sugar - Best Wishes
• Crafty Creations - add some shine (think my favourite spray will count here)

Have a fantastic day everyone.  Oooooooooooooooh less than a week to my birthday now - not that I'm excited or anything - LOL.