Hi all. One quick card today as I have been ill for a while with this brutal virus that is doing the rounds. But I am a little better today so I was determined to make at least one card for this challenge as I have entered every month and didn't want to miss his one. I started off preparing at least two but soon realised that I had better settle for one and go and sit down again. So here it is.
Sorry it is not a brilliant photo but I am not up for fiddling with it today. I wanted to try out a new set of dies I bought by Bright Rosa. They were very reasonably priced and the set included 20 dies; The card base with elongated hexagon front, eight nesting hexagons to fit it, a hexagonal star-burst background die, matching corners with mats in two sizes, and two long hexagonal labels, so it was very comprehensive.
I chose an image from an old magazine page, and matched it with a dark blue card with a white fleck for the base.
I cut the background mesh and matching corners in gold mirri-card, a white mat from thin felt that happened to be on my desk, and the image, and layered them all up. In this picture it looks as though the front of the card is complete, but the picture below shows that the corners are actually on the inner back of the card.
There was quite a lot of cutting involved but on the whole this was a straight forward card to make, and I shall be doing some more very soon. My second one will use silver mirri-card in place of the gold. I haven't yet decided whether or not to use one of the label dies to add a sentiment.
This is obviously a versatile set of dies which isn't restricted to use at Christmas, so I think it was a good buy.
I shall link this up at the November Rudolph Day Challenge, so if you are busy making things for the Christmas season, why not join in and post your own creations.