When they saw the star!

Hi there,

I'm here today with my October card for Christmas at Sweet Stampin'.  This month we had the optional twist of using stars in our Christmas project. I had recently picked up the Recollections Christmas Noel embossing folders and clear stamp set, so decided to dry and wet emboss the star embossing folder for my background. 

I began with running the blue cardstock through my Big Shot with the Recollections star embossing folder. I then took a rubber brayer and Versamark ink and ran it across the raised pattern and then applied Detail Silver embossing powder.

I then stamped the image from the Sparkle N Sprinkle set 720: Three wise Men with Versafine Clair Twilight ink and heat embossed with Clear Detail embossing powder. 

I stamped the sentiment from the same set in the Twilight ink again and heat embossed with Clear Detail again. Then I tore around the sentiment to make it look like a sand dune and sponged a little of the Twilight ink around the edges.

The three wise men were taped to the star background, after I colored their gifts with a yellow Copic marker and the sand dune was popped up with mounting foam. The front panel was layered to a white card base and then the white organdy ribbon was tied around the left side of the card to finish it off.

Hope you've enjoyed my share? Below are all the products I used on my card:

Sparkle N Sprinkle 3 Wise Men Set 720

Recollections Christmas Noel Embossing Folders & Clear Stamps

Versamark Ink

Silver Detail  (EP257)

Clear Detail (EP280)

Versafine Clair Twilight Ink

Brayer

Copic Marker Y17

White Organdy Ribbon

Mounting Tape

I hope you will take a look over on the Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.
We'd love to see what you come up with, with the optional twist of "Stars"!

Till next time!

Shona