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The new Joy For You collection is full of wonderful festive crafting inspiration, and today I'm sharing a traditional Christmas card using the Decorative Ornaments stamp set 3478ssc.
Christmas crafting is my absolute favourite and although I am not normally a big "bling girl", at Christmas out come the glitters and sparkles to add to my festive makes. This is one of the 3 design team samples I made with the decorative ornaments stamp set.
I decided to go for a classic Christmas colour combination of red, green and gold, with a little tartan thrown in for good measure!
For my background, I used a sheet from gorgeous Tim Holtz Christmas Palette paper pack. I love the traditional red tartan design, and thought it would be the perfect backdrop for these lovely ornaments.
I stamped the ornaments on red card and gold heat embossed them, adding metallic pen details to give a rich, festive appearance. I really like the different shapes and intricate patterns, which remind me of vintage Christmas decorations.
I added gold twine and foam pads to the backs of the ornaments to raise them up.
I stuck them in place on the paper and covered the top with a strip of gold card.
For my sentiment I stamped the Merry Christmas greeting. I grunged it up using scorched timber distress ink and framed it with more of the tartan paper.
To create the greenery across the top of my card, I used Tim Holtz' Mini Holiday Greenery dies, cutting lots of little branches and leaves in different shades of green.
I arranged them in layers to create a full, festive display, with the ornaments appearing to hang beneath and stuck the sentiment over the top on raised foam pads.
I also added some little red pearls to resemble berries, and painted the leaves, berries and edges of the sentiment with the amazing new Tim Holtz Liquid Tinsel for a touch of Christmas sparkle. ✨
I love how all the different elements work together to create a traditional Christmas card with plenty of dimension and festive details.
Here is my card once more.
There is plenty of wonderful inspiration to discover on this hop. So do make sure you follow it and visit the other participants' blogs here and check out all the other fabulous makes featuring the new Joy For You collection!
Products I used in my make are (click to be taken to the website)
I will also be sharing my other makes using this set over on my Instagram account over the coming days. The first one was shared on Thursday. Check it out here.
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Happy hopping and happy crafting!
Bye for now,
Jane x
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