Christmas Wishes

Christmas Wishes

Welcome to my blog! This is the first time I have written one so here goes.
This was the card I sent out to family and friends last year in which I ended up making around 50 of them. The task was turning into an up hill battle as time was running out and the deadline for getting them into the post before the final delivery was getting closer and closer. My fault really for leaving it to the last minute to make them, especially as there were so many to make.  To my relieve I managed to finishes them with a few days to spare.

To start this card I got some A4 black quality card and divided and cut the sheet into six  panels, I then stamped the the lamp post in to the centre of the black card using a Versa mark clear ink pad. The stamp is from "Flower Soft - The Lamp Post." The set came with ivy stamps too which I wrapped around the main body of the lamp post. I absolutely love this stamp especially in a Christmas scene. I heat embossed the lamp post  and ivy with a embossing powder scented creamy vanilla, I am not normally a fan of the smell of vanilla but making so many the kitchen smelled lovely by the end of this stage. While the embossing was cooling down I got to stamping Christmas wishes onto DL cards using a silver ink pad. Before I started the final stage I decided to mount the stamped image onto the DL card as I thought it would be easier doing it first before applying the "flower soft." For the final stage using "flower soft"glue I carefully placed the glue up the vine of the ivy and covered it in "Flower Soft" gold form the diamond range which has a sparkle to it. Once that had dried I returned armed with the "flower soft" glue and carefully placed it on the leaves of the ivy and this time covered them in "flower soft" silver diamond  range. Once it had dried they were ready to send.  Despite the fact of getting a little stressed in making them because of time I did really enjoyed making them and love the final result and I hope you like it too.