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musical note Christmas

The Christmas challenge at Peace on Earth Challenge #90 had some lovely colours in the inspiration photos with the bottom right corner one appealing to me the most. I’ve used a few here but slightly muted.

The other day I was playing with a napkin image of musical notes and I attached a larger portion of it to some card stock for a future background. With the piece leftover I was about to set it aside when I wondered what it would look like behind an opening? On my desk was a scrap piece of CS that I had already die cut some banners from and I placed this over the top. It looked good so I cut two more banner openings from the opposite direction then attached it to the napkin piece. After trimming the edges I decided to ink around them and slightly on top to age the CS a little. I remembered that I had this MFT set of bird and die stamps so on another scrap piece I stamped two birds and some foliage. Coloured it all with pencils and water, die cut them and attached as you see here. I used the Just a Note sentiment, from the set, at the top, but as I’d decided I wanted it to be a Christmas card the wishing you and Merry sentiments came from a Divinity Designs set. I had the embossed piece leftover from a project and I added the bird piece to this. Taking some copper thread I added a few turns and tied into a bow before adding the small gem to the middle. Then I added the layers to the main card front. Not a good day for tying bows as it took me more than 10 minutes to do with a bit of swearing thrown in.

Its a Dragon Boat paddling evening, so I have to leave in a few minutes, but thanks for stopping by and for any comments you may leave.

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  3. A beautiful holiday card and your Dragon boat evening sounds interesting! Thanks so much for joining our challenge at Peace On Earth!

    Diane POE Co-Owner

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  7. Beautiful Christmas card which required a lot of TLC and work to achieve this. Love the birds and your copper thread bow is perfect. Aging the paper in spots is lovely too.

    I am intrigued by the cream embossed background since i am not familiar with the terminology of craft card making and you most likely mentioned it in your description of the different card stock sets you used.

    Hubby and I have always appreciated your creative, thoughtful cards to us over the years, so it is with interest that I have now been following your site.

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    1. Thanks. The terminology around card making is something one learns. There are two ways to emboss, one is wet embossing using inks and powders which are then heat set. The result is a slightly raised impression in the colour of your choice. Then there is dry embossing. For this we use purchased folders and put card stock (CS) inside then run through a machine that forces an impression. The newer folders are very 3D. The folder I used here is one of those types. If I want colour there are various ways to achieve it but in this case I just used a cream CS. It is an expensive hobby, but the designs one can create make it worthwhile.

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      1. Thanks so very much Johanna for your in depth explanation as to how you achieved the embossed look. Also for cs meaning card stock. Yes, I can see how this is a very expensive hobby. Your creations are beautiful.

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