The four papers for this card come from Kirsty Wiseman's Colour Burst of Fanciful Things. There are some beautifully co-ordinated sets of papers on her CDs. Each layer is stitched to the one below with a brown co-ordinating thread using either running or zig zag stitch. My sewing machine thinks it's Christmas, it is so long since it saw the light of day. The tile sentiment in the centre is from my stash.
I found this tree motive in an embrodery designs book I bought recently and thought it was just right for this challenge. The book is Doodle Stitching by Aimee Ray. The image is coloured with promarkers. The snow stamp and background writing stamp are from Elusive images and the grasses from Stamp doodles. DI ink Stormy sky was used to shade the tag. The wooden leaf is from my stash.
I decided to combine the two challenges into one, so here is my Art Deco Happy New Year card.
Looking forward with this challenge. The backing papers are from MCS, the stamp origins unknown. I have had it for a long time and not used it before! I coloured the balloons with Promarkers and 2011 is a rub on. The sentiment is printed with the Xyron design runner.
I decided to make a start on some decorations for the Christmas table so made a napkin holder to fit with this challenge. The ring is made of red paper, edge punched, and white pearlised paper, also punched, both with Martha Stewart punches.
I bought some Debbie Moore CDs in her sale and they have some great backing papers. These two backing papers are from Vintage Heaven and the lady from 100 Vintage Images. The oval frame I cut from some Kanban card using Craft Robo and the flowers I made from one of the backing papers using the Sizzix die 3D Flowers, this gives you one of those cut to the centre in a spiral cut out which you roll and glue. The pearls and ribbon are from my stash
I love Christmas roses and have a mass of them growing in my garden, they look so fragile but withstand the snow and ice. A Christmas glory. So I used Elusive images Christmas Rose stamp plate to stamp using DI mustard seed, on watercolour card that was coloured with the same ink. I stamped again with wild honey but have not been able to get the contrast to show up in my photograph. I added a Christmas Angel, ribbon and a gem.