I inked my favourite beautiful ornament stamp from the SU! Keepsake Ornaments set 3 times with Encore metallic gold pigment ink and stamped twice on black CS and once on white CS. I then heat embossed with Jeweled Gold embossing powder which is so very sparkly! I die cut the 3 ornaments pierced holes in the Whisper White panel for hangers, stamped the sentiment and popped the ornaments up. I layered onto a gold CS mat, added the ribbon and added the panel to a 5 3/4" square black card base. Hmmmm, I didn't like the piercing for the hangers, it didn't show up enough for my liking so I had to do something about that! I used the SU! Owl punch to cut out tiny black CS circles and I covered the pierced holes with those. Anything fiddly, painstaking and time consuming was always described by my mother-in-law as a "good game played slow!" and this was definitely one of those! Having said that, I like the ornament hangers far better now so I was glad I did it! I finished the card front by adding black gems and gold nailheads.
Inside I stamped a large sentiment and added two small stamped, heat embossed and die cut ornaments. I drew strings and bows with a black pen as hangers for the ornaments. Another of the beautiful larger ornaments went onto the envelope flap.
What a fabulous colour scheme for Christmas cards, I really hope you'll play along with us this week at 52 {C}CT, I can't wait to visit your blogs to see your classy creations! Speaking of classy creations, do check out what the other DT members have made to inspire you!
Supplies:
Stamps: SU! 'Ornament Keepsakes' & 'Greetings of the Season' sets, Woodware 'Happiest of Christmases' clear set
CS: SU! Basic Black, Whisper White, Canford metallic gold CS
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Encore metallic gold pigment ink
Tools: SU! Holiday Ornaments Framelits dies, SU! Owl Builder punch, Stamp-a-ma-jig, paper piercer
Embellishments & accessories: Stampendous Jeweled Gold embossing powder, black grosgrain ribbon, black gems, gold nailheads, SU! Dimensionals
9 comments:
Fabulous card as always Ruth. Just love those baubles, they are what got me onto SU and now I can't stop!!
I love the way you decorate the whole card and the envelope, very classy.
Just love this card - so very elegant. I thought you'd made the hangers with gems, but no a much harder method - but so effective. Love the decorated inside and envelope too.
Those are some pretty stamps, and you made a gorgeous card with them, Ruth!
This is lovely Ruth - love the embossing powder - so shiney! - Jacqueline xx
The elegantly embossed ornaments are wonderful! I'm impressed with your story about the ornament hangers. I am not sure I would have had the patience for that! The inside of the card and the envelope are lovely too! Excellent job, Ruth!
This is gorgeous, Ruth! AMAZING embossing and fabulous layout--LOVE it! HUGS and hope you are having a great weekend! :)
just fabulous Ruth, beautifully embossed-I really got to use my gold embossing powder on this x
This is elegance personified. Thank you for making such a gorgeous card with these colours. Beautifully embossed, these ornaments are perfection.
Louise xx
A really elegant card Ruth! I love those ornaments on the gold - its stunning. I agree - the extra effort on the ornament strings was totally worth it. Gorgeous inside too (as always :o)) Hugs D
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