Wednesday Weekly Card Giveaway

Hello bloggers!  I may be the only one that loves this card, but it has such a lovely vintage feel to it, it just appeals to me.  I thought I would offer it up for the giveaway to see if anyone else likes it as much as I do!  Leave me a comment if it is up your alley and I will draw the winner and announce it on Saturday's blog post.  I started by stamping the Florentine Background (by John Lockwood) in black on milk card.  I cut it to the edge of the lines, then ink it lightly with both Antique Linen and Tattered Rose distress inks.  I coloured the ivy corners with Distress markers.  I matted it on milk card and added a gold edge with a paint pen.  I stamped the image again and cut out the larger ivy in both corners, coloured it and mounted up for dimension.  I splattered the background with the gold paint pen to add a bit of a vintage distressed look to it.  For the focal element, I cut three of the Silent Night die in vintage gold card and glued them together.  I inked them with Clear Perfect medium pad and coated them with clear embossing powder.  I heated it until it melted and repeated the step one more time.  This is a great technique that Julia Watts turned me on to which adds a beautiful shine to your sentiments!  I cut one more Silent Night in black and added it below slightly offset as a shadow and glued it in the centre of my background.  I completed the card with a pierced milk mat, a thin gold and black mat and another milk mat.   The finished dimensions are 5 3/4" x  7 1/2" in size.  All for now, Sue x

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