Non-traditional Christmas colour

 I lost a shadow die last week, so on Sunday I did some tidying up - and not I did not find it... but did find a stamp stuck to the top of my Misti - not even sure what set it came from and I found my Sweet Poppy metal stencils - I have two Christmas ones - an ornament and a bell. 

I took the ornament one and some paper and got out some purple Altenew inks.  I recently purchased the Scrapblook.com magnetic magic mat and I used it to hold my stencil onto the paper.   It sticks to the magnetic side perfectly and lets me do the inking. 

Doesn't it look impressive in the purples.  It is a large stencil and to get it all on my card, I made a base that is 5" x 6".  I used several of the Altenew inks. And then I added a sentiment from a magazine freebie, inked in Altenew Obsidian ink.  I splashed some water on it to get droplets and then spritzed it with Shimmer Spray in Frost.  Added some white gel dots, and some white pearls.  For tiny splash of colour I added some red enamel dots for the berries. 

Christmas Poinsettia with Burlap and Lace

 I've had a couple of stamped and embossed Poinsettia images on my desk for a while.  I was gifted them - just for the life of me, can't remember who it was and which company made them....  I had watercoloured one of the images with red paint and fussy cut it, So over the weekend, I took a second image and used some green paint to watercolour it and fussy cut it too. I then liberally spritzed with some Shimmer Spritz Frost.   Layered them together to make a fuller Poinsettia. 

A while back I picked up a roll of burlap that had a centre row of lace already sewn on it.   I thought it would look lovely with the poinsettia - and it did.   I had some pre-printed digital sentiments and used an Altenew die to cut one out.   So a very quick card was done with the addition of a green gem in the centre of the flower.  

Inky Fingers.

Hi.  Well I can't believe the week has gone by... Time is going so fast this year.  I've been busy at work.  I've been put into a new team so have to get my work on hand finished... plus a couple of commissions to do, a couple of DT cards to make.    So today I've got a card to share from last week.

I took a photo of my fingers after making my card

 

The background started as white card with embossing paste and a stencil.  I've had it sitting on my desk for quite some time so decided that I need to do something with it.  I had some ink on my craft sheet so the piece got smooshed through it,( you can just see the blues that were there) then added the Festive Berries distress ink.   Next was a bit of gold Shimmer Spritz and a tiny bit of Fireworks spray in a purple.  The sentiment is from Winnie & Walter.

Here's a close up of the shimmery shine on the card.

I am entering this into the Mixed Media Challenge (here) for August.  - to use a stencil and paste.

Edited:  Entered also into the stencil challenge at AAA Cards - hope it's CAS enough!

Hoping to get some time this weekend to have a play.  There are just so many inspiring blogs out there to visit and get lots of ideas from.  Still got some new goodies to play with.