Welcome to the new Heart Of Christmas Blog Share. I think we are up to about week 9 now, and so far I've managed to make a card each week. It's so nice to be well on my way to having my Christmas cards finished for 2018.
Today's card came about after a little experiment didn't go as well as I'd hoped. I was wanting to see if I could used Isocol to activate Brushos powder over the top of an image stamped in Momento ink. Momento is designed to with with Blends, so water would have made the ink run. As it turns out, it does work, just differently than it would with water.
I chose the Brilliant Red Brushos because I was making a Christmas card, and red is Christmassy - right? Unfortunately, as one of my Facebook followers said, she was getting a serial killer vibe after I asked if it looked too much like blood splatter. LOL! Despite this, I was determined to make it work on a card, so after a bit of a think, this is what I made. The layout was a CASE of this card by my friend, Judy May.
Red ornament, minus the serial killer blood splatters! Yay! I recently hosted an ATC swap with a Glitter Window technique theme, so it seemed a brilliant solution to my problem. Basically, you cut a hole in your card, run some clear packing tape across the back so that the sticky side is up, and then dump glitter over the top. Our Dazzling Diamonds is perfect for this, because you can still see through it. Finally, you adhere a stamped image behind the window so that you can see it through the window.
A little bit of detail is lost when you do this technique, so to make the bauble look more like a bauble I took an old black marker (in case I ruined it) and coloured bits of the design to make them a lot bolder. I was pretty pleased with the overall effect. What do you think? Did I redeem the bauble?
The bauble had done my head in by this point, so a super simple inside was definitely in order!
You can see the rest of this week's cards over at Claire's blog. I love seeing what everyone makes each week.
Bye for now,
Tina