Golden Christmas

 My stamping groups Christmas challenge this month is to use gold and or stencils on our cards.  I only used one stencil, I have only one themed Christmas stencil, I need to look through my everyday ones and see which would work for Christmas too.

I found these cute die cut stickers at Hobby Lobby, they have gold foil on them so they were perfect for this challenge. The gold glitter snowflakes and stars were given to me from a friend a few years back and I finally used them.

I am sharing today's card with Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge blog 

• Paper Studio - Stick a bilities die cut sticker
• Glitter stars and snowflakes from friend
• Lawn Fawn - Outside in Stitches Scalloped rectangles die

This second one has so much foil on it that my camera (which is red) shined through the foil, very distracting, so I took a side shot too, you can still see a bit of the camera and my hand in that one too.

Paper Studio - Stick a bilities die cut sticker

Echo Park - Christmas wonderland Stencil with gold ink

The next two stamp sets came from cardmaking magazines, this first one I tried a light gold embossing powder and it didn't really show up all that well. I added a little bit of stickles to ground the house and the tree, which are different stamps. The corners are all from the same stamp set also, I stamped those in black.

• Let's Make cards magazine - Stamp w/enchanted gold embossing powder, corner stamps with black ink
• Anna Griffin - Christmas cardstock
• Spellbinders - Floral Ovals die
• stickles - Antique linen to ground the house and tree

This last stamp of an angel also had a wand in it's hand, that didn't seem right to me so I swiped the ink off the wand part before heating my embossing powder, it still left a bit of a mark so that's where the sequins came in. The border embossing folder gave me some troubles when I tried to just add ink to the raised areas, even using a brayer didn't work so I just went with this one after doing a couple trying to get it right.  I used a darker gold embossing powder on this one and not sure I like this color much either.  I think it is time for some new embossing powders.

• Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine - Angel and sentiment stamp - gold embossing powder, star embossing folder inked with gold, pattern paper for background
• Spellbinders - Labels 4 die

So far this year I have 25 cards made for Christmas :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, 

Connie