Bold and bright

I had a second black card base on my desk after colouring PH Gnome as Santa (here) so decided to have another play. This time I heat embossed the stamped image in gold to get all that lovely grungy detail on the base. Again, I stamped the image on white, coloured and fussy cut it then lined it up with the one on the card base. The tips of the leaves are slightly raised with scraps of card for a bit of dimension.

For some reason I decided that die cutting individual letters to make up the sentiment would be  a good idea — I won’t be doing that again in a hurry! Still, it’s given it a bold and graphic feel which seemed to suit the image. I used a couple of light grey Copics at the base of each letter to give a very slight ombre effect. I decided to make the text deliberately “wonky” as even the teeniest discrepancy in either baseline alignment or spacing tends to scream at me if it’s supposed to be straight.

Stamps:
Inked Holly (Visible Image)

Paper:

Raven black
Bristol board 

Ink:
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Graphite Black)

Other:
Detail embossing powder (gold)
Tim Holtz/sizzix Alphanumeric Classic Lower dies
Copic markers
Posca paint pen (white)
Corner Chomper

I’ve just discovered the We Love Stamping challenge (I’m slow on the uptake!) where this month’s theme is red and green so I’m playing along there with this card.