Wednesday Weekly Card Giveaway

Hi there my crafty friends!  The Christmas Angel for 2015 just had to make an appearance on the giveaway day at some point so here she is!  Another card that was done as a demo on Hochanda too.  I started with the background which was a bit of a lark I had one day and rather liked the way it turned out.  Using a piece of white card and white tissue paper, I tore it into pieces, crumpled it and adhered it to the card using Cosmic Lacquer.  I made sure that it was overlapped and scrunched up for some texture.  I laid it aside to dry thoroughly before proceeding onto the next step.  I used several colours of the Colour Cloud inks and pounced colour on using smoothies.  I used an assortment of colours which included Ocean Blue, Plum Cobbler, Violet Haze, Fresh Grass and Chic Blue Grey if memory serves me, however, this technique can be done with any colours you prefer.  Once on the dry background, I lightly sprayed it with a water mister and allowed the colours to run a bit and then dried it well with a heat tool.  Next I used Enchanted Gold and Golden Light Gilding wax over the top to catch the raised texture from the dry tissue paper.  This adds the look of a gilded marble to the piece and adds s much interest too.  I cut it to size and matted it and added my pierced mat layers to it.  Next I cut the Angel out of white card and sprayed her with adhesive and coated her with Diamond Snow. I then cut a second one in gold card and offset it behind her before I added mounting foam to the back and attached her to the background.  I cut the Joy die in the set twice, once out of white and once out of gold card.  I sprayed and glittered the white one and offset them and glued them in the lower corner.  I did the same to the large star in the upper corner to complete the card.  Please leave a comment to be included in the drawing for this week's giveaway card.  I will announce the winner on Saturday's blog post.  The finished dimensions are 6 3/4" x  8" in size.

Before I go, I would just like to let you know that John Lockwood will be doing the One Day Special starting tonight at 8pm on Hochanda.  He will have shows all day on Thursday as well at 9, 12,  4 and 7pm too, so loads of demos to look forward to during the day.   All for now, Sue x

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