Well here we are again at the 25th of the month so it is time to show a Christmas make.
Last month Woodware released their Christmas stamps and although I am trying not to buy too much new these days, one stamp really caught my eye. Apparently everyone else liked it too as it sold out on the first day! So I signed up to be notified when it came back into stock and before long I got my one through the post. It is not a stamp you can do an awful lot with, but I immediately thought of a little stack of DL cards that have been in my stash for at least 15 years! (I know I brought them with me when I moved out to Spain nearly 12 years ago).
So I dug those out and found I still had a few in pastel shades of cream, blue, green and lilac. So I stamped my image a dozen times, and added a light dusting of colour all over it, with a yellow area around the star. Then I distressed the edges and rummaged through my snippets box to find matching colours to mat the images.
I used three of each of the base colours from my DL cards, and had no trouble finding three blue and three purple mats. I had some pieces of a jade green which went well with the green cards, but I didn't like yellow mats for the cream cards so I used shades of orange/brown.
Once they were all mounted up I used a little matching colour on the stable scenes, and used a gold pigment pen on all the domed roofs. Finally some gold glitter glue on the star gave them that bit of Christmas sparkle.
Inside I used a sentiment stamp which came with the main image, and a small stable digistamp from my library, with a simple greeting on the other side.
So now I have another set of 12 cards to add to my stash, three each of these four colourways. (The card on the right is pastel green though it looks like another cream one in the picture).
