CHNC angel

I haven't got around to doing this challenge for ages, but this week the theme just happened to fit a card in progress - to use an angel or fairy. This is another all-white card, using my current favourite angel of light from Chocolate Baroque, but seriously blinged up as an experiment!
The angel was stamped on vellum and embossed with detail white EP. the matting layers start with crumpled white tisue paper printed with silvery dots that came from a wrapped present, then a white pealescent layer that was embossed with snowflakes, then a plain white layer under the angel., all on a white square card blank. Apart from the tissue paper, they were all torn out and embossed round the edges with a white puff sprinkle Wow EP. the flowers were cut from pearlescent card  with a crealies die, leaves from an EK punch with a scrap of white glitter card. I added gems to the angel's halo, flowers in her hair and to the centres of the diecut flowers. On reflection, the gems on the angel are too large, but were the smallest I had at the time.

three kings

The challenge on CHNC this week is for a square card, so lots of options there! This stamp from Elusive Images turned up during the week, when I was looking for something else - I printed outt he starry paper from the Artylicious Season's greeting cd, stamped and embossed the kings in black below the large star. I then stamped them out again onto 3 Artylicious papers in yellow, orange and brown and paper pieced the image - it is a very detailed image, so quite hard to colour in, and I had run out of the gilding flakes I usually used with this stamp.
Apologies for the scan, have had to fiddle the image so that the colours show up better, the background is a bit darker in real life
Elusive Images stamps and Artylicious cds are now available through Chocolate Baroque online.

silver tree

challenge 11 on Bah Humbug is metallic, and that on CHNC 12 is silver - for once, I  was sort-of organised, so one card for two challenges! When I wanted it earlier for an embossing challenge, I couldn't find the cuttlebug tree folder, no problems this time fortunately - I didn't have any metal, ( have too much stash anyway, so resisting any more techniques)  so used silver mirri card to emboss the tree. Silver card for the base, and I cut a freebie piece of dufex card in  a wavy line for the backing - looks a bit too much in the scan, but ok on the actual card

CHNC 11

the CHNC challenge 11 is 'go for gold' - I took the easy way and used gold EP! Stamp by Clarity stamps, BP from Glenda's cd Season's greetings sprayed with English ivy glimmer mists to make it tone in better.
I really crawled in under the tape for this one after Mr Linky played up a bit- thanks Hazel for fixing it!