Angel Prayers

 

Today is the first day of Beccy's Place Month of Holiday Cards Challenge. This is the 9th year she has been running it and the 3rd year that I have taken part. I work part time now so many not get chance to take part every day but I will do my best as I love making Christmas cards and it is so much fun to take part in this fabulous challenge.

The prompt for Day 1 is the letter A. I have chosen Angel and made my card with a rubber stamp & die set by Conie Fong that came in the 16th Birthday Event lucky bag from Crafter's Companion that I received last Friday. It must be some sort of record for me to use a new item within only a few days of receiving it! Although it is not specifically a Christmas image I thought it work well in a Christmas card.

I stamped the image with Memento ink using my stamping platform. I have never been truly happy with my stamping but by golly has that changed since I got my stamping platform. The results are so much better. I can use less pressure and lighter inking as I can repeat ink in the exact same place without ruining the image. It has been the single most thing that has improved my stamping and I now actually enjoy doing it again.

The image has been coloured with my Arteza Expert pencils and I added a little clear Sakura clear glitter pen to the roses and wings. The stamps come with dies to cut out the outline. It is the first time I have used a set like that and as long as you are careful lining it up and tape in place before cutting you get an even white border around the image. I added some thin foam pads to the back and placed to one side to make the card.

I chose the latest sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches for the layout. A sheet of gold card was used as the background and I used the same card to cut a mat from a Romantic Rectangles die. The red and gold paper has got loads of glitter on the patterns which has a slight green tinge to it. I used a scrap of green snowflake paper and added some gold peel off border stickers to it. Finally the sentiment has been recycled from an old store bought card I received and layered onto a scrap of plain green card.

Card Details -

Size - A5

Rubber Stamped Image - Angel Prayers (Conie Fong by Crafter’s Companion)

Dies - Outline die to match the stamped image & Romantic Rectangles (Spellbinders)

Papers - Merry Christmas Traditional (Craft Sensations) & Traditional Christmas (The Works)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Arteza Expert Pencils,

Embellishments - Sakura clear glitter pen

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• A Bit More Time to Craft - #146 Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #11-2021 Anything Goes
• Beccy’s Place Challenges - Month of Holiday Cards Day 1 - A is for Angel
• Classic Design Challenge - #11 Anything Goes
• Colour Crazy Challenge - #43 Anything Goes with Colouring
• Corrosive Challenge - #10 Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore - #93 Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper
• Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
• Creative Crafting Uncles - #22 Feminine for Breats Cancer Awareness
• Creative Fingers - #218 Anything Goes
• Cute As A Button - #74 Anything Goes
• Dies R Us - #180 Anything Goes with a Store Brand Die (Spellbinders)
• Digi Choosday - #43 Anything Goes
• Digi Doodle Studios - #44 Christmas / Winter
• Jan’s Digi Stamps - Anything Goes
• Lemon Shortbread - #157 Anything Goes
• Love To Craft - #64 Anything Goes
• Love To Scrap - #151 Anything Goes
• Merry Little Christmas - #40 Anything Christmas Goes
• Morgan’s Art World - #11 Anything Goes
• Pearly Sparkles - #68 Merry Christmas
• Penny’s Challenge - #508 Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - #44 Anything Goes
• QKR Stampede - #431 Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - Any Holiday Occasion
• Sheepski Designs - #56 'Tis The Season
• The Creative Crafters - #45 Anything Goes
• The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge - #104 Anything Christmas Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #515-516 Anything Goes
• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - #10 Anything Goes
• Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes