Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Chalkboard Holiday Wishes Wreath
A Blog Named Hero's current challenge theme is to copy a designer. I found this card by Emily Midgett that I'd pinned last summer, and liked the chalkboard look. I decided to create a wreath card with a chalkboard feel to it.
I cut a piece of black cardstock to 4.25" square. After I marked the center with a pencil, I stamped my greeting, from Hero Arts' "Color Layering Christmas Tree." I heat embossed that with Recollections Snow detail embossing powder.
I traced a circle die with a pencil around the greeting, to give me a guide for my wreath. Then I stamped one of the pine branches from Hero Arts' "Pine Branches" in Versamark several times around that circle. Then I white heat embossed those. I stamped a different pine branch around the wreath again, this time using just Yeti pigment ink from Lawn Fawn to get a more dimensional feel overall. I felt the heat embossed part of the wreath was a bit too "perfect," though. So I stamped more branches, just to fill out that part, and heat embossed those.
To finish the wreath, I stamped berries from "Pine Branches" in Versamark ink around the wreath. I heat embossed those with Ranger Red embossing tinsel. I didn't get the greatest coverage the first time, so I went over them with my Versamarker to add more ink, and embossed them a second time. Finally, I added gold gel pen accents to the ends of the berries. When the gold ink had dried, I smudged some white ink around the image with my finger, to emulate eraser marks on a chalkboard.
I tied a "faux" bow, following the instructions in this video, at the bottom of my wreath. I cut strips of red cardstock, and adhered them to either side of my image panel. Then I adhered that to a white A2 card base. I got this layout idea from Darlene DeVries.
I'm also entering this card in a2z Scrapbooking's November challenge: "Winter."
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Absolutely stunning! Thanks so much for sharing with us in the a2z Scrapbooking Blog's November "Winter" challenge!
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Thank you, Leslie! :)
DeleteWOW, Fantastic CASE. I never would have thought to do Chalkboard for Christmas. So glad you joined us at A2Z Scrapbooking.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Arlene! :)
Deletelove, love this! thanks for joining us at a2z!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Char! :)
DeleteBeautiful card! Thank you for joining the November challenge at A Blog Named Hero.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kelly! :)
DeleteThis is just lovely!! The black and red and white combo is so striking and festive. Thanks so much for joining us over at A Blog Named Hero!!! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Emily! :)
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