Wednesday 25 December 2019

Christmas Joy and Cheer!

I hope you are all doing well, and that you are having a wonderful family time this festive Season. Christmas is one of my favourite times, even though this year is the first one without mum - so you feel that pain within you - but the Peace and Joy it brings in all environments is amazing in itself!

To wish you all a lot of beautiful things for this Christmas Day and the coming year, I am sharing with you a Christmas card I did for one of my Sisters - I just love how it turned out!

I did not want to use traditional colours for this one, and I chose a main of brown shades - then I added some olive green touches; as it is the the recipient's favourite color.






One might not associate these colours to go well together, but it is a very beautiful combination; it looks really cool in real life! Not even I thought I would like them together. 

I used quite some dies here, from some tag dies, to a JOY word, including the nativity scene, and some leave die, the one I used as a base of grass and leaves. This I embossed with Distress ink for added dimension. 




I cut the JOY word for three times, to add thickness and dimension. Later on I decided to cut one out of brown cardstock and cut out the Nativity scene figures for some more interest. The papers I used are mostly Pion Design - from the Long Time Ago in Bethlehem collection. 




Another detail photo for you, the Betlehem houses can be seen here, used as a background for my scene - together with paper doilies, stamped background, rhinestones, brads, etc.



Wishing you the very best my friend. Thank you for being here and for sharing my crafting journey. It is such a wonderful way to spread love with a handmade card - cause one dedicates time, resources, creativity, and adding a personal touch that you know the recipient will love means that you are attentive to the person's personality. That also means love! 

Happy Christmas. May Christ finds a warm place in your heart to stay. Sending you love!





Challenges: 



Die Cutting Divas Challenge - 3 Stars, 2 Die cut tags and 1Bow 


Shopping Our Stash - Celebrating Christmas

Everybody Art Challenge  - Winter landscape or Christmas colours




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