Christmas roses

 My last samples for the Christmas Chocolate Baroque  tv show  share a theme of Christmas roses, and both stamps are great for colouring in.


The first stamp is called 'hark the Christmas rose'  and has a background of music for the carol 'hark the herald angels', which i thought was a lovely combination.
 The first one was stamped with versamark onto black card and gold embossed before painting with some very ancient mica paints - I think this one used H2Os. Trimmed down, mounted onto gold card, then onto a white card blank that had been randonly stamped with the roses using a gold inkpad.

 The second version is very similar, but embossed in silver and the paints were from an anonymous palette of mica paints - it is so old that the clear lid has disintegrated, but the paints still work fine!
This time i stamped and white  embossed the snowflakes from winter edges to make the background, then sponged a light grey ink round the edges before adding matting layers of black and silver









The serena stamp does count for this theme as it has a small bunch of Christmas roses!
My first card was the simplest, stamped with versamark onto cream card and gold embossed.
Painted again with the mica paints, a thin gold mat and mounted onto a white base card randomly stamped using the Christmas roses which were gold embossed. The sentiment is from 'lets get festive'.










The final version I stamped serena three times,  once onto white card and twice onto black and silver embossed all the images.
One of the black cards was trimmed to size, and a versamark pad dragged roughly round the edges which were then silver embossed.
Serena was painted with the mica paints on the white card and fussy cut out, then glued onto the image on the black card.
The roses and candles were painted on the third image, then fussy cut out and glued on.

Christmas wreaths

 Since I got my stamping platforms I have been somewhat addicted to making cards with wreaths - I could never do this before, and lived in total admiration of those who could do it just marking points with a pencil!
Once I discovered how to do it with the platform there has been no stopping me - I found the best way was to start in one corner, do all four corners, then fill in the gaps.

Both of these used the same small stamps from Robin the Spruce and sentiments from Robin the spruce on the first card and from lets get Festive on the second card (both from Chocolate Baroque).





I coloured the stamps using distress markers before stamping, and the sentiments were gold embossed. Edges of the card were also gold embossed beforee mounting onto white card blanks.

I am entering these into challenge 398 , anything goes
http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/
and this one, , merry Christmas challenge ,also anything goes

three kings

 I don't know about you, but Christmas in a heatwave just didn't seem right!

This is a big stamp, so for my first card I opted for simple - red and yellow brusho powders sprinkled over a square of white card and spritzed with water to create my background ( the colours also reflected how hot I felt at the time!)
The stamp was then inked with black versafine and stamped into the centre. I used a black fineline pen to extend the stonework either side of the archway before mounting onto a white card blank.








My second card started off with a white card blank randomly stamped using a window from the gothic fragments stamp set using a light brown ink, which was also brushed round the edges.
I stamped the kings three times onto white card. The kings themselves were coloured and fussy cut out from one image and the archway from another - the third was used as the base and just the gap through the archway and the floor coloured with grey brusho. The archway was coloured using sandstone brusho and a waterbrush. I used glue to add the kings in the background and foam pads for the leading king and the archway.