Hello crafty friends. I’m busy trying to ahead with my own Christmas cards after all my recent design team samples for ClarityCrafts, so today have revisted the ‘SHAC bauble – merry Christmas’ stamp set released earlier this year. I took inspiration from the colours at Creative Colour, adding in the centre row of sparkle, holiday sentiment & a free option from TicTacToe‘s grid, together with the ‘anything goes’ theme at The Holly & Ivy Christmas challenge

I started by creating a frame on the front of a 6×6 card blank using a large square embedder, then stamped the star bauble in black Versafine Clair ink and heat embossed it with WOW’s clear sparkle powder. I used a grey Polychromo pencil to shade around the star, which I then coloured with ‘picked raspberry’ Distress Oxide and a waterbrush, before adding ‘villainous potion’ around the outer part of the bauble (these are the nearest shades I’ve got to Creative Colours’ palette).

I covered the bauble with the pre-cut mask from the set, then laid the ‘starry burst’ stencil over it (masking off the largest star) and lightly brushed ‘shadow grey’ Archival ink across it.

To finish I stamped the sentiment several times in the ‘shadow grey’, drew a string for the bauble to hang from using a micron pen and a ruler, and placed silver adhesive dots in the small circles on the bauble.

Thanks for dropping in. I rather like these soft grey stars in the background against the vibrant bauble. Here’s another close-up of the sparkles on the card – it was a bit difficult to capture in the photo, but looks so lovely as it glints in the light.