Christmas Card - Textured Background

Christmas Card - Textured Background with Cats

I recieved an awesome background stamp with berries and leaves on it from a friend. It's got a lot of intricate detail so I thought it'd look lovely as a subtle background using clear heat embossing. That's how this card came about.

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I stamped the berries and leaves background stamp using clear embossing ink onto red cardstock then covered it in clear embossing powder and heat set it.

I cut a circle out of 'faux linen' textured cardbase then used doubled sided tape to adhere the red background into the circle window.

I had a couple of diecut cats and presents leftover in my stash from Mama elephant's Oh Kitty tree stamp set that I wanted to use up. I also wanted to use the geometric tree and star from Simon Says Stamp clean line christmas stamp set. The 'Season's Greetings' sentiment is from the same stamp set.

I stamped the cat, present and tree images using Gina K Design Jet black ink because I wanted to colour them using alcohol markers. I did some basic colouring then stuck them to the front of the card using double-sided tape.

For the sentiment, I used clear embossing ink to stamp it onto black cardstock and heat set it using silver embossing powder. Then I trimmed the cardstock around the sentiment to get a single black banner that would fit across the width of the card. Then I used double-side tape to adhere the sentiment strip to the front of the card.

And it's done!

Happy Crafting

Mel Crafting.