A Christmas Collage

Materials used:-

Stampendous CRR214 Christmas Cottage

JGS317 Many Christmases

Clear Scraps mask CSSM Holly

Detail Copper embossing powder

Tombow pens

2" Holly punch

Versafine Vintage Sepia

Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy

Buttons, Fancy Twine, Brads, s/a jewels

Corner rounder punch

Copper pearl card

8" x 8" card blank

All available from:-

www.woodware.co.uk

Your local Exmouth stockist is:-

Liberty Craft

33 Exeter Road (opposite the library)

33 Exeter Road

Exmouth

EX8 1PT

01395 273238

libertycraft33@yahoo.co.uk

We have a Christmas Collage this week using a combination of stamps & embellishments & just the kind of thing I love. I started with the card blank & brayered it all over using a green ink. Next I stenciled the holly leaves using the mask & then overprinted with "Many Christmases" & Vintage Sepia. The 2 stamped images were embossed with Detail Copper & Christmas Cottage was then just given some highlighting & shading with Tombow pens. I then rounded all corners before layering onto the copper pearl card & attaching to the card blank. Now punch some holly leaves from the pearl card & give them some vein character using  a DEET (double ended etching tool). Thread some twine through the button holes before arranging with the leaves at the bottom left hand corner. The brads come from last years set " Christmas Trees & Snowflakes" Glitter brads & I have darkened the gold snowflakes with a permanent marker to be more in keeping with my colours. The gems come from one of the  Mark Richards "Cluster" sets to finish off the collage.