Christmas Wishes

 Hello everyone!  More Christmas cards!  I may have to start "double days" again soon to get through all of these before we end up on Christmas' doorstep!  How do you feel about that?  Overdose or not?  This card shows my first attempt using the new texture pastes.  I will probably use these again as I found it quite fun to do!  The down side is there is a bit of a wait for it to dry, but if you were to do a bunch of them in a big batch, you could just pull them out as you need to use them and voila!  I used the Cosmic Shimmer Gold Pearl texture paste through the large polka dot mask on to soft vintage gold card for this one.  You just need to tape the mask down with removable tape and then use a spreader to pull the paste through the pattern on the mask (I used an old gift card for my spreader).  I really like the tone on tone look myself, it gives you texture without fighting for attention too much.  I gave it a thin white mat and added it to the top of the card above my stamped greeting, which I embossed in gold.  I stamped the Justrite Wreath in black on a piece of white card.  I did a messy watercolour wash with Distress markers and cut it out with the Majestic Circles.  I stamped just the bow area again on gold card, heat embossed it in gold and cut it out by hand to overlay on the original.  The card was finished with a white pierced layer, a thin gold mat and a final white mat.  The finished dimensions are 7" x 8 1/4" in size.

The winner of this week's Wednesday card giveaway is:

Camelot67!!!

Congratulations!  Please email me at americansue1@gmail.com to confirm your address and claim your card.  All for now, Sue x