Saturday 13 August 2016

Entwined Cross for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps


I'm back with another card using Leonie's Entwined dies. For this one I have used the Cross Base and the Cross Swirls.

 To start off I dabbed some pumice stone and aged mahogany distress inks onto my craft mat, then spritzed with water and dragged some watercolour card through it.
I cut an aperture out of this with the Cross Base die.


I scored a line down the left hand side, leaving a flap to fold over. I glued this to another square of card to make my own card base.



To make a frosty window pane I sponged some white gesso over a piece of acetate, then glued this inside my aperture.


I cut the Cross Base again with dark grey card and glued the small outline on top of the 'frosted glass'


I inked another panel of watercolour card the same as above and stamped several snowflakes on with pumice stone ink. I flicked a little diluted aged mahogany ink on with my fingers.


This went on the inside of the card to hide the join and I stamped a greeting in the corner.


I coloured some white cord with a grey alcohol marker and wrapped it around the spine of the card then added the Cross Swirls die-cut from dark grey card, entwined with the larger outline from the Cross Base cut in silver mirri card.


I cut a Snowflake Base from stamping card and coloured it using the same technique as Iused for the background.


This was entwined around the cord on the front of the card



I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Noor! Designs UK #21 Christmas
Winter Wonderland Show us your gold/silver and or an embossed background
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #290 AG
Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies Challenge August
Happy Little Stampers (Christmas) Snowflakes
   Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas #292 Vintage/AG
The Glory of Christmas #90: use Kraft paper/Anything Christmas Goes
Sparkles Forum Challenges # 82 Christmas in July
The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up #20 Optional Theme Christmas Confectionery

I will be back tomorrow evening to announce the winner of my giveaway. Good luck everyone!
Katrina x

17 comments:

Carole Pollard said...

A very beautiful design its so classy Love and hugs Carole x

Valerija said...

Wonderful card. Love the design.
Valerija xx

Anne said...

I'm just catching up after a little break Katrina, some really beautiful work - this could be used for so many occasions, it's exquisite.
Anne x

Fikreta said...

very nice card!
hugs
Fiki

Anonymous said...

Stunning !

Cornelia (fun stamping) said...

Very impressive! Wonderful card you created with those dies! Thanks for playing with us at HLS!

Hazel said...

Thank you for sharing your lovely crafting for Penny’s challenge 290, Hazel, DT - also my vintage challenge on CHNC – you could also enter this into my CHNC challenge extra for August - I'd love to see it there too x

Allicat said...

A beautiful classy card. I just love how you document your makes its so inspiring.
Love Alli Xx

Sarah said...

Really beautiful, the frosted panel is brilliant xx

Anet's Crafting said...

Beautiful Christmas card Katrina. Thank you for playing along with our Challenge at Winter Wonderland. We would love to see you again ... Anet DTx

Amy Seigler said...

Beautiful card!! Love your use of the dies. Thanks for playing with us at HLS!

Christine Harrop said...

Thanks for sharing this great card with us at Winter Wonderland. The cross is beautiful. Good luck with the challenge. Christine DT x

Emma said...

What a great card, thank you for joining us at Winter Wonderland Challenge for our ‘Show us your Silver/Gold and or Embossed Background’ Challenge, hope to see you again. Emma DT x

LesLee said...

Gorgeous...i have no there words

Cindy said...

Great card. Love the delicate, swirly cross die cut. Thanks for sharing with us at Winter Wonderland.

Cards By MI said...

A really lovely looking card. It's smashing work all over. Love it. Thanks for joining our challenge over at the Winter Wonderland. On Friday we are back with a new fun challenge.
Love n hugs
Marie

Zora said...

Great work of art. Thank you for participation in HLS christmas challange. Hope to se you in outher next challande too//Zora