Merry Textured Christmas to you

Hi There,

Today I have created some colourful Christmas Cards 

featuring the Merry Christmas to you die from Paper Rose.

The techniques I have used for the die cut sentiments 

& backgrounds have resulted in textured & glowing cards.

I had fun creating a lot of coloured backgrounds on Yupo Paper 

with various Alcohol Inks including Gold Metallic.

I ran these backgrounds through my Big Shot with different embossing folders.

I lightly sanded the texture before rubbing Art Alchemy wax with my finger over the raised surface.

I die cut these bright backgrounds with the Merry Christmas to you die.

I applied these to a white similar embossed card base matching up the patterning.

The angled die cuts meant I had extra pieces of coloured card to frame the sentiment.

  

I matted this card on an Inky Antics Paper Background. The colours matched perfectly.

This technique could easily be reproduced using those fabulous papers, 

or the Arty Love Collection.  I am definitely going to try that out.

The 'to you' die was cut from coordinating papers for each card.

For this card I added Small Stitched Stars diecuts cut from gold cardstock.

Matted on a green & gold sprayed background from my stash.

Light rubbing of the gold wax to highlight the texture on the white embossed card.

Hope this gives you a few ideas for trying some textured backgrounds with your die cutting.

Also a bold diecut is the perfect way to use those really unusual or bright papers

that you are having difficulty adding to your projects.

Cheers,    Deb Adams