Christmas Pudding

I've pulled a few different products together to create today's card.  The Christmas Pudding die set, and the Cooking Up Christmas stamp/stencil set are both from The Greetery, combined with several different dies for the pine boughs and foliage.

This was a labour of love!  There are ten colours of cardstock and seven inks involved... and much fussy cutting.  And when you go to this much trouble, you make more than one, so I have eight of these added to my stash.  You should see my craft desk, it's like a bomb went off.

I wanted a little glimmer, so I used brushed metallic gold paper to cut out the Joy sentiment, and spattered some gold paint on the finished product.  Happy to have these completed, and plan to spend the next hour tidying up my craft room :-)

Cooking Up Christmas

 Betsy Veldman creates the most amazing product suites, and the Cooking Up Christmas set from last year is just darling.  I love the slightly retro vibe that the graphic creates, and kept the overall card design pretty simple to show it off.  This is only a 3-part stencil!  But I used several different Distress Oxide Inks on each layer to create my scene.  The coordinating stamp set adds in all the wonderful details like the icing, jar shading and all the fun words.

After stencilling & stamping, I blended some warm brown tones around the edges to age things a little, and sewed my panel onto my card base with my sewing machine.  I'm debating on adding a little Distress Glitter... but will sit on that idea for a bit.  Happy to have 12 of these in my pile of holiday cards!