christmas angel

It's getting  to the time to really start to think  about Christmas cards - i usually am the one rushing to make the last posting date! With the cost of stamps going up , I am sending fewer cards this year, but will be making them all  ( fingers crossed)

This is a quick card using stamps from Chocolate Baroque, though it does involve masking.

It is a 6" square card blank, with a slightly smaller square of black (any strong color will work, but i just like black and gold!) card for the image. The angel from the old set  A Child is Born was stamped in versamark and gold embossed. Stamped again in black on masking tissue, cut out and laid over the angel, then the Christmas words from the Slim Word Strip 2 were stamped across using white pigment ink. Once the ink was dry, i rubbed the edges of the card with more versamark ink, and dipped the edges into gold embossing poiwder and heated it.

I would like to enter this to the follwing challenges

crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge #164 - anything Christmas goes

the holly and the ivy#124 anything christmas

addicted to stamps #439 - any occasion

sweet stampin - christmas in september