Phoenix Inspirations

It's Theme week at  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown  and this week we want to see Christmas Cards featuring - FAIRY LIGHTS Now I have to admit that I struggled with this challenge - whose idea was it to do Fairy Lights??? ...... err - that would be me DOH! However Louise to the rescue, she has dashed round with her Pennant Parade stamp set and matching punch and this is what I have come up with You can just see my multi coloured lights on my trees - perhaps you can see them better in this close up I have used the brand new In Colours for this card: Gumball Green, Summer Starfruit and Raspberry Ripple. My fairy lights were coloured with last years In Colours. Both the trees and the scalloped edges were punched using the fabulous matching punch for this set. My sentiment has been heat embossed in gold - this is a brilliant stamp set with loads of really useful sentiments in a gorgeous funky font. Materials Stamps: Pennant Parade, Sassy Salutations....

It's been a while since I took part in  Technique Tuesday  - sorry Mynnette, but I am rectifying that now! The technique this month is Bargello and the step by step tutorial is laid out beautifully on Mynnette's blog for you to follow. I am not new to this technique and have done it before take a look  HERE  and  HERE  - today I thought I would have another go as it is such a great technique and a great way of using up scrap pieces of decorative paper. Today I have come over all Christmassy - take a look I am frantically using up as many scraps as I can at the moment and this I think is probably the last of my Just Add Cake DSP and the two together look very festive don't you think? On to my Bargello background I have added a panel of Whisper White card stock to which I then added my three Christmas Trees - can you see that I've made them 3D? I did that by stamping the tree six times with the stamp from Pennant Parade and then punching it out using ...