Star Christmas Card

This card was inspired  by a project featured in this years Stampin' up catalogue.
I really wanted to have a go at this style of card but didn't have the stamp set or the star dies. It wasn't possible for me to buy both sets before Christmas.
But another demonstrator on our team offered to lend me her stamp set and dies so I could have a go before Christmas.  So  a Big Thank You  to Rosie.

I also wanted to CASE a card that Rosie  has made.  I have not done this yet.
I guess part of me is scared of getting ink on the wood blocks of  the stamps. 
I get pretty  peeved with myself  if I get ink on the wood of my own stamps. So I would be devastated if I stained the  blocks of stamps that don't belong to me.  So to date I have only used  Rosie's stamps with versamark.

The Glittery white card used on this card is the new Dazzling Diamonds  Glimmer paper.
I don't like this new glimmer paper at all,  it doesn't sparkle much.



In the second version of this card I used the a larger star die to cut out the centre which leaves a much larger opening.

I can't help but think there is something missing from this card.

You're a Star

This would be a good card for a male.
It could say Happy Birthday or You're a Star.

I used the SU star punch a piece anita's silver paper (which actually feels like light weight card) and embossed it using the paisley cuttlebug embossing folder.
I stuck the star onto whisper white card stock daubed the edges with Night of Navy ink, mounted that onto navy card, then mounted it again onto white card and again onto my navy background card . ( see below for details on how to achieve this effect.) Then the whole thing
mounted onto a white 5x5 card base.



To make this background paper


I used the star punch from SU
punched out one star and used it as a mask. I daubed around the star with night of navy ink then moved the star to the next position daubed round the star again and kept repeating this process until I had the desired effect. I then cut my new background paper to the size I wanted for my card.


It was as simple as that.