Christmas card for Berit

Hello and welcome, 

I have made a Christmas card for a women who was my Mother’s former colleague at work. She is over 80 now and she loves cats. So what was more appropriate to make a card with one of the Snarky cat Christmas stamps from Tim Holtz. The rest of the products used are also from Tim.

I started with the background, a piece of Mixed media heavystock, a snowflake stencil THS050 and micro glaze technique, with Distress inks in Broken China and Tumbled glass. Then I used a smaller stencil THMS 093 with some crackle paste and embossing glaze in Speckled egg, let dry, then heat dry. Then I spritzed some water and used more embossing glaze in the same color. 

I stamped the “post stamp” from CMS323 Holiday postmarks in three of the corners and embossed with red embossing powder. Then I stitched around the edges with my sewing machine.

For snow under the tree and parcel I used some texture paste opaque and Distress rock candy glitter. 

I colored the cat with Distress inks, and fuzzy cut it. 

Then I made another background with green Distress inks and die cut the tree, with 660978, Woodlands. 

The birds in the tree are from the same stamp set as the cat and they are also colored with Distress inks. I die cut the number “24” from a red background I made with Alphanumeric Shadow numbers. I also used Stickles glitter in Aged mahogany and Platinum to “decorate” the tree.

The “GOD JUL” is Swedish and means Merry Christmas. I die cut it with 664177 Alphanumeric label. 

I mounted my card on a red sanded Kraft cardstock piece and then I created a “card blank” from a light blue sanded Coredinations cardstock.

I will try this card in the “Happy holidays” challenge over at  Simon says stamp blog - Monday challenge .

Thank you very much for visiting today, hope you feel inspired to create.

/ Susanne