Hello friends I hope you are all keeping safe and well in this crazy world. It's been somewhat different with lockdown here in the UK, but we are adapting and watching our crazy puppy I'm beginning to think that life would right now be fun to be a dog, blissfully unaware of the dangers your humans face and you get to look this cute.
Rita chose our Christmas Card Club challenge today and it is for us to use Candles. I currently don't have any candle stamps so decided to create candles using the most unlikely set from Stampin' Up! called A Big Thank You.
It is a set with borders and petals that lend themselves to being a candle and a flame so there's the history in a nutshell of my candles. I decided then to add them to a bauble and so it went on.
I created a stencil using circle punches then sponged and masked each bauble into place. I made sure the ink was dry before masking again to first add the gold heat embossed candles and then the top bauble i 'clapped' some water drops onto it and left them just long enough to lift some colour before patting dry with a paper towel. This gave some detail to the rear bauble.
I added some black sequins and rhinestones along with a gold foil card border or two and some fussy cut bows that I stamped with a sweet little stamp from the set Nine Lives which you guessed it is all about cats their bows and balls of wool toys. The strings I drew in with a black marker and ruler and a simple sentiment.
I went for a fairly traditional colour scheme and used Pear Pizzazz and Shaded Spruce for the greens and a blend of the two for the smallest bauble. I just might do this technique for another CC Club challenge coming up as it makes for some simple but effective baubles.
Keep well everyone and have a good week.
Crafty hugs Zoe x
