Monday 13 July 2009

Pink Gems Mary and Joseph


Todays card has been created from two of the new Pink Gem Christmas stamps, Ive used the Mary with her baby and Joseph stamps. Ive stamped them together onto a piece of white card then coloured them with my copic pens, after which I cut it out with my rotatrim and mounted the image onto a piece of dark blue pearlescent card. The greeting was also stamped, cut and mounted in the same way.

Ive made a 7.75"x 7.75" card this time, because the piece of dark blue pearlescent card Ive used for the first mount wasnt quite big enough for the usual size I use, Ive used again one of the Nitwit downloads papers, this one has a snowflake pattern all over it. The second layer is a piece of star patterned vellum on which I have used the snowflake embossed border punch of Martha Stewart, Ive actually used a embossing ball on the snowflakes just to make them stand out a bit more. Ive stuck this to another mount of pale blue pearlescent card on which I have stuck another patterned paper, this one has greetings printed all over it, before sticking this to the base layer I have put a ribbon across the seam between the paper and vellum.

The third mount is another piece of the same pearlescent card but this time I have run it through my cuttlebug with the snowflake embossing folder, then I have stuck it on top of the layers. The stamped mounted image was then stuck on to the middle of the card, and the greeting was stuck to the bottom right hand side of the card.

To finish of I have punched out some snowflakes, dipped them in glue and then into Twinklets, these are rather large glitter crystals and they really do sparkle, Ive even put some stickles on the star to.

13 comments:

Poppy said...

wow lovely Shirley must be on same wavelegth today same chritmas theme ,same stamp company ,same ribbon.....lol.
great card.
poppy

Saskia said...

Lovely card!

Saskia :)

Linda said...

Hi Shirley! This card is so precious! The image is beautiful. As usual, you do not disappoint! Great job! TFS and have a wonderful week! xoxo, Linda

P.S.: Hope hubby is doing well!

Riet said...

What a gorgeous card shirley,l love the colours.

Hugs Riet.x

Rach said...

a fabulous christmas themed card Shirley, seen a few of these around today in blog land. the twinklets that you have used are gorgeous. hugs rachxx

coldwaters2 said...

Oh how beautiful Shirley that image is so cute and just right for a lovely fun Christmas card. Love the colours you have used

Hugs
Lorraine x

Tab said...

Ooooh just adore your card sweetie, love the image, just so cute and the colours are delish!
Hugs Tab xxx

Sue said...

Hi Shirley
aww gorgeous card hun fabby colouring, luv the image, sue.x

debby4000 said...

Oh this is so sweet, beautiful card.
luv
Debby

Paula said...

Oh wow this is fabulous i need that stamp lol so cute and the papers you have used are lovely.
Paula xxxx

Janet said...

Aww Shirley it is gorgeous!!....Love it!
I tried to make one the other day With just Max & Donkey. I coloured Max's biblical clothing in yellow and purple to match some paper I was using but the colours just didn't work for a Crissy card so I scrapped it. Blues work so much better!X

Bev said...

Another gorgeous card Shirley, such fabulous detail and yummy papers and again those images are adorable x

cats whiskers said...

Oh Shirley this is just one famntastic card, what awesome colouring and such sweet Pink Gem images, this really is a stunner dear
Hugs Jacqui x