Thursday, August 5, 2010

Frosted Christmastini





Oh, I love how this turned out. The photos do not do it justice. The manual setting on my camera doesn't work and the micro beads really confused the autofocus. Believe me I tried!

I've been toying with the idea for several days, since I saw the Stamping Bella challenge for the week. I wanted to play but my Bellas were just too small to paper piece so I wanted to use this image - Christmastini. The trick was the glass. I wanted to get a real crystal effect. In the end, it looks more like a frosted glass but I'm so happy how it turned out. I stamped the glass on acetate and covered it with Scoretape. I then covered the whole thing with microbeads to give it some texture and then sandwiched the beads with more Scoretape to adhere the glass to the paperpieced ornament and background. I haven't seen this particular effect before so I hope you enjoy it. The ornament is some DP scraps with Stickles for the swirls. I used brushed gold paper for the ornament clasp and swivel stick. The star is a piece of confetti I've had lying around for years. To get the thin border on my Nestie image, I used my Big Shot and cut the green and white using the same Nestie and then hand-cut the white along the embossed line.

The layout is this week's sketch from Paperworks and I think it fit perfectly. I did change the dimensions on the card. It is a 4.25*5 inch card. I cut the paper the wrong size and re-cut paper to do a standard card but wen I went to put the card together I thought the "mistake" was better balanced.

Other Challenges this card meets:
Sir Stampalot - Bring on the Bling
Cute Card Thursday - Whateva
Creative Inspirations - Anything goes
Lexi's Creations - Paper Piecing
Moving Along with the Times - Christmas
My Time to Craft - Let's Eat Cake or Drink it Up
Papertake Weekly - White and Bright
Simon Says Stamp - Sing it Baby (My Song is "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere by Alan Jackson)
Stamp Something - Christmas in July (August)
The Pink Elephant - Something Yummy

16 comments:

  1. Oh wow its looks stunning here so can't imagine how good it is in real life. You have captured the frostiness perfectly. Thanks for joining us at Sir Stampalot.
    Pinky

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  2. Very pretty! I really love the glitter you added to the ornament. Thanks for playing along in the PaperWorks Sketch :)

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  3. yum, my kind of card, many thanks for joining in the CCT challenge, hugs Debx

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  4. What a brilliant technique and i love the unusual Chistmas image .. thanks for joining us at MAWTT this week
    Lisa ;)

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  5. Fabulous card, love the sparkle and I can imagine it must be simply amazing in real life!

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  6. Beautiful Christmas Card, beautiful image and papers, loving your colours…

    Thanks for sharing your wonderful creation with us at Stamp Something “Christmas in July” Challenge this week!

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  7. Fabulous,love the sparkle.
    luv
    Debby

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  8. WOW!!! that is just fantastic, just love the idea its great
    Thanks for joining us at MAWTT this week.
    Good Luck! Hugs Shell xx

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  9. WOW it looks stunning, What a lot of work you have put into it. Thanks for joining in with us on MAWTT this week, Hazelxoxo

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  10. Oh how delish is this frosted glass effect with that ornament inside! Wonderful. Thanks for the inspiration & thanks for joining us at creative Inspirations for anything goes.

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  11. Ohhh a Frosted Christmastini, Too bad there's no liquid in it...lol, great card, thanks for joining Lexi's!

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  12. fab card - thanks for joining in MTTC challenge this week x

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  13. Oh so lovely, thanks for playing along at Paperworks Co. with us this week.

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  14. Wow what a stunning card I love what you have done with your glass it looks amazing...fab X

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  15. You are amazing! Can't wait to see it in person!

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  16. Great song!! I am sure that you are right about your card looking better irl. I hate that it is so hard to photograph any kind of bling. Even so, I love it!! It's a great idea and I love all of the detail!! Thanks for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog!
    xoxo, Christine

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