Christmas card two

An oldie, but a goody  today.
I was inspired to make this card yesterday after spending Friday  teaching lots of techniques to a new stamper.
Having refreshed my own memory on lots of different techniques I decided to try this technique again.....it's  basically sponging  through a mask, then over stamping.

I began by cutting out an oval from scrap paper, I discarded the oval centre  as it was the negative I wanted to work with.
 I applied some two way glue to the back of the aperture mask and allowed it to dry.

Once the glue was completely dry,  I placed it over  a piece of white card stock and pressed it down  gently to secure it to the card.
I tore a very narrow strip from the sticky edge of a post it note,  (just so that it no longer had a straight edge but still had lots of sticky left along the edge)   

 I stuck the post it note across the  middle of the aperture  and began to sponge  Barely Banana ink ( a warm yellow ink) from the centre of the post it note and worked upwards  in an arch shape.
  I applied Apricot Appeal ink from the sides and  worked around the yellow arch and blending the edges of the two colours.
 I added a touch of Pretty in Pink ink around the arch and blended it the Apricot .  t
That was followed by a few light strokes of Lavender Lace  ink around the arch, again blending the edges. The  final colour was Smokey Slate at the very top of the arch and a touch at the edges.

 I removed the post it note and then began to sponged small amounts of Smokey Slate ink over the edges of the bottom half of the oval and worked the ink in towards the middle.

When I was happy with the effect,  I inked up two thirds of the  row of trees  stamp from the "Lovely as a tree" stamp set in black ink  and stamped over the sponged area, positioning the stamp slightly over to the right side.


I inked up the pine tree stamp and stamped it on the left  side of the card, overlapping the sponged oval.


 I added some glitter glue to the branches of the trees on one of the cards. When the gltter glue was dry, I added a greeting.

Harry the dinosaur expert in the family.

This card mas made using Stampin' up 's lovely as a tree stamp set, old olive, wild wasabi, chocolate chip, sahara sands, so safron, bashful blue and more mustard ink pads. With daubers.

The dinosaur was punched from old olive card and certainly celery card stock using three differnt sized circle punches three oval punches and the boho flower punch for his hands. Oh yes the scallop circle punch for his tale. I almost forgot that one. I did use a couple of small foliage/grass stamps for the foreground which were not from stampin up.

Once I had completed the picture, I mounted it onto old olive card stockand then placed the whole thing onto a sheet of stampin up's designer paper.

I added a piece of bravo burgundy grosgrain.

and printed off a personalized greeting and hot foiled it. I then punched it out and mounted it on to a larger punched oval.

I didn't get to see Harry open this card, but I do hope he liked it as much as he loves his dinosaurs. Happy 4th birthday Harry!!!