Hello friends. The challenge over at Merry Monday this week is to use a stencil on your Christmas card. I had bought a Tim Holtz stencil just before Christmas, but hadn't used it yet and figured this would be a great time to use it. This stencil (Festive - THS029) is a bit small in places and it took me three tries before I thought it was "ok", but as a whole, I think it turned out pretty well. Take a look:
I used Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Soft Suede, and Cherry Cobbler inks and sponge daubers to color in on the stencil, and then embossed in gold my "joy" (Hand Lettered Holiday - WPlus9). I mounted this layer to a piece of kraft cardstock and then layered that onto a card base of Old Olive. A little bit of twine finished it off.
You can check out all the great cards by the Design Team and other players right here.
Thanks so much for stopping by today...I love it when you do!
7 comments:
Beautiful, festive design! Love the gold embossing and bit of twine...lovely!
This is beautiful .... very festive. xx
Love this, Marcia - the soft stencil looks great with the gold embossed joy!
Marcia, your stencil image is GORGEOUS!! Such a fabulous CAS design!! Thanks so much for playing with us at Merry Monday this week!
Beautiful card Marcia. Fabulous stencil.
Wow, Marcia, I'm going to have to put this stencil on my wish list! I love this design and you used perfect colors! Thanks for sharing it with us at Merry Monday!
Clearly your skills include stencils. This is simply lovely. Great use of color and the sentiment is perfect with the design.
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