The main image was printed from a Debbi Moore Vintage Christmas CD and was printed onto textured cream cardstock using the "Best" quality on my printer - it looks like an oil painting up close because the textured cs looks like canvas - cool bananas!! I then added Christmas red stickles to the berries on Santa's hat. If you look closely, you can see that the sun captured a little bit of the sparkle.
The background embossing was done with a gorgeous Cuttlebug folder 'Holly with Berries'. I LOVE this folder - it is so pretty. Because the cs was square, I ran the cs thru the CB twice to get the pattern all-over - it was easy to match up the pattern on this particular ef.
The bottom border was made with an old temperamental Woodware punch which was almost impossible to line up to get a perfect edge which made me grumpy 'cos I wasted alot of cardstock to get an edge that I still wasn't happy with {sigh} :-( Maybe it was my technique...... oh well.....gives me the perfect excuse to buy another border punch LOL!!
I added the red pearls on the punched border so you would look at THEM instead of the uneven punching!
The GIANT pearl on the ribbon is not actually a pearl at all - it is a 30+ years old button which I inherited from a haberdashery shop my family had back in the 1970's. I have quite a button collection from the shop....I keep thinking I should sell them, but I just CAN'T bring myself to do it!! All I did with this red pearl button was cut off the shank and glue it to the ribbon.
The sentiment was heat-embossed with gold embossing powder, and both the Santa image and sentiment are up on mounts (dimensionals).
Registered: January 29, 2009 Location: British Columbia Posts: 6675
Fri, Oct 08, 2010 @ 11:24 AM
Very pretty. Love the colors and the holly paper along with the holly embossing folder. Cute image and it does look like it's on canvas. Another lovely border punch too! TFS. : )