Creative Expressions Thursday.

Hi my lovely blog family and friends.

Well thank you so much all for the lovely comments from yesterday , I am so pleased you all really enjoyed my little canvas. I am going to do a large size one I think and it will be part of my 200 people subscribing so look out for that won't you all ad you will get to have a bit of artwork from little ole me on your wall to keeps and look at and even chat to if you want to haha.

Right without further Ado as they say back to today's project using Our lovely Sues stamps and dies from the stamps to dies for range and of course Sue's own die ranges The festive collection and the Californian collection.

See what you think.

 This one I decided on some real classic colours in our soft gold card, milk  black and red, I used Ivory embossing on the Christmas night Bauble and Bright gold embossing on the sentiment "seasons greetings" from the Snowflake bauble set.

 I just love the Santa going over the moon inside the Bauble, how cute is that and very clever.
Ok so I started with some soft gold card stock and I rounded off the edges and took the largest die from the Californian collection - Decorative frames and cut out an aperture, I saved the inside mat to go on another card maybe for next week who knows , but as another idea it is the perfect shape for a label on its side to go round a bottle and write something special on it to a loved one or have a candle in the top of the bottle with the hot wax dripping down the label making patterns etc, (romantic old fool tonight aren't I)haha.
I then added foam to the back and built it up a little so it stood just a tiny bit away from the card underneath, I chose red to go with the traditional Christmas gold and laid the gold piece on top just so I could see to stamp onto the red card with Perfect medium and emboss it with Ivory powder which suited it very well I thought.

I then mounted the red card onto white and stamped my sentiment on the bottom and embossed in gold powder. I of course matted that onto black before adding foam and raising this layer onto foam again and adding that on top of a pierced layer which has a tiny tiny mat of red under, so more foam and the last mat which is milk white again with a soft gold mat to set off the main colour on the front of the card.

 I did add a tiny piece of Ivory satin edge organza ribbon to two corners of the soft gold piece of card on the very front and then tied a pretty double bow, adding one of the small self adhesive snowflakes in pearl to the centre.

 I then stamped out several of the Pinstriped Poinsettia stamps in a cranberry colour and added some gold gel pen to the ends of the petals and gave them all a shimmery finish with a really classy shimmer without the too flashy with glitter on this occasion. I then used a foam mat to help shape the petals and glued them together .I made 3 different sizes and also some leaves and added them to the bottom left hand side.

I added a few pearls in the corner and some more of those gorgeous snowflakes too and there it is finished apart from I am going to draw in a chain holding the bauble up I think and add some sparkly highlights to catch the light too.

 Here are the two stamps I used and of course the little sentiment was from yet another set as I mentioned earlier.

And here are the two dies also , what versatility you have with just this four items alone but of course Sue has made so many gorgeous dies which you can mix and match with the gorgeous festive stamps too, or any other stamp come to think of it haha.
                            
Have any of you lovely blogglies started your Christmas cards yet ? I never do them til the last minute but as this was for the DT piece I at least got a little practise in .

I've have had a couple of requests to put up the dates of the next shows and as you
know they can sometimes be cancelled and changed around by Ideal world but as it stands I have a couple of shows on the 8th of October and again on the 20th October. So I am starting the prep now for the first one and really enjoying getting it all together for you to see.

I hope you like this one and if you feel like popping over to the Creative expressions blog to leave me a comment on there too I would be really grateful, or on facebook of course if you have me added.

Have a lovely Thursday and I will see you soon.

Love

Kim 

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