Christmas roses

In a change of pace — something more on the elegant side and very die-based compared to my usual stampiness! I’ve had this set for years and barely used it so thought it was about time it got a proper workout.

This started life in my head as a white on white creation with a silver sentiment.  I couldn’t make the florals look anything but bland though (I don’t know how others pull it off for gloriously chic creations!). I ended up going through every sort of colouring medium and eventually binning them and starting again! This time the flowers are cut from red card, edges inked with Distress and a little bit of detail added with a white pencil. The rest was cut from white and coloured with Copics with a tiny bit of pencil on the holly veins. 

I heat embossed the gold sentiment then added the frame and assembled everything in the corner, using scraps of card to vary the heights, and finally called it done. 

I confess it reminded me why I don’t do this style of card very often — it doesn’t come naturally and takes me longer than seems humanly possible 😂 It’s a good job I know the intended recipients will appreciate it!

Stamps:

Noel (Waltzingmouse Stamps, no longer with us)

Paper:
Bristol board
Red

Ink:
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Graphite Black)
Versamark
Holtz Distress ink by Ranger (Barn Door)

Other:
Christmas roses dies (Sue Wilson/Creative Expressions)
Branch die (Craft Emotions)
Stitched square frame dies (Paper Rose)
Detail embossing powder (gold)
White pencil

With so many die cuts, it would be rude not to join the Die Cut Divas’ Christmas/winter challenge, don’t you think? Click the graphic for all the challenge details.