Hello crafty friends. Barbara Gray is back on Create & Craft TV this afternoon with some more Claritystamp Christmas goodies, so I thought I’d share a card made using the Bijou Joy to the World Bauble stamp set. I’m going to share it as a second offering with both Christmas Craft Creations and Inkspirational challenges.

I started with a piece of smooth white card that I’d cut to fit a 5×7 card blank. I stamped the outline image onto the card in clear ink and then heat embossed it with WOW’s super fine silver powder. I sponged ‘chipped sapphire’ Distress Oxide onto the infill stamp to add in the background – I find it easiest to use my stamping platform for this, as I can line the image up against the outline before adding the ink. I also stamped the chain from the set in the ‘chipped sapphire’.

You can probabaly see in the photo above that I managed to get an inky smudge at the side of the bauble – no idea how that happened! I managed to lift some of it with an ink rubber, and then disguised the remainder with a few snowflakes! I used several of the small snowflake & star stamps from the new SHAC bauble sets, stamping them in groups around the bauble and heat embossing with the silver powder.

I finished by lightly blending some of the ‘chipped sapphire’ around the card edges and then attaching it to a 5×7 card blank.

Thanks for dropping in. Barbara will be on TV at 3pm, with lots more inspiration to get started on your Christmas cards!