It's never too early to start making festive cards and so today I am celebrating Christmas In July with a super sparkly mixed media card using the gorgeous recent release of stamps from Visible Image.
The idea for this card stemmed from me experimenting with the Grunge Christmas Words stamp and embossing powders. Doesn't it look stunning in gold on black card?!
I wanted to combine this with the Shining Star stamp set, and needed to create a night sky effect, so I spritzed the card with Distress Mica sprays. The embossing created a resist so the sparkling powder stayed nice and vibrant and the mica added extra shimmer.
I then took a larger piece of Tim Holtz black mixed media card and stamped and embossed the Shining Star stamps, being careful to place the large star to the side as I needed space to place the smaller card with the words overlapping it.
I dipped the card into Distress Oxide ink that I had spritzed with water, and also some of the mica spray so that the two pieces coordinated. I coloured the smaller stars with a gold paint pen.
When happy with the background I tore the edges of the worded card, and adhered at an angle over the top. I sprayed ink through the Super Star stencil, stamped the star over the top and fussy cut. I also cut and coloured some smaller stars to use as embellishments.
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I adhered these with glue gel to add more dimension. Check out that shimmer!
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I finished by stamping the sentiment from the Christmas Wishes set and again embossing in gold.
There is a brilliant Summer sale happening right now over on the Visible Image website with a whopping 30% off all items with the code SUMMER30 so do go and take a look and maybe treat yourself to some bargains. Hurry though as it won't last forever!
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Lynda thanks for your tutorial it is sure helpful when looking at a design and how it is made,.. spectacular design, love it x
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