Christmas cards | Harty By Heart

Hello!

Today I made another Christmas card and I used micro beads. I used a sticky embossing powder to adhere them to my stamped star. I created the background with a couple of different distress ink and then sprayed a mix of water and perfect pearls over it. I love the sticky embossing powder, the trick is to heat it really really quick, otherwise it’s not sticky anymore. It took me a few tries but finally I got the hang of it. I think I will use this quite a lot, the possibilities are eeeeendless! 🙂 After I adhered the micro beads, I sprinkled over some distress glitter to cover up the parts where the microbeads didn’t stick. I really liked how it turned out.

I also made a small card to put on christmas presents while I had all of my stuff out. I used the same stamp with dry perfect pearls instead of microbeads. I traced around the edges with a silver pen and adhered a rhinestone to the center. The background is created the same way as on the card, with distress ink.

Take care and thanks for stopping by!

Challenges: Addicted to stamps

Supplies:

Distress ink, broken China, Faded Jeans and Black Soot
Stamp from Judi Kins, Heindesign
Silver microbeads ( I’m not sure where mine are from but Martha Stewart carries similar )
Rhinestone from Anita’s
Perfect Pearls from Ranger
Silver gel pen
White cardstock, Neenah Solar white
Versamark and Sticky embossing powder from Judi Kins

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Hi!

Today I made a christmas card and a tag using Tim Holtz mini embossing folder. I bought these on sale a couple of month ago but I haven’t got the chance to use them until now.

I used distress ink to create the background and I also inked the edges of the tree. I added some rhinestones to the winter sky and tied a silver and white twine with a little charm star to finish it off

And for the tag, I created the background the same way and I also sprayed some perfect pearls mixed with water on top of it to create sparkle. The sentiment means Merry Christmas in swedish and is heat embossed it in white.

This tag will match the new wrapping paper that I bought for christmas perfect! Normally I create christmas tags when I wrap my presents but this year I’m planning to make them before it’s time for gift wrapping, and maybe, just maybe, it will ease a little of the stress 🙂 I always have a ton of presents to wrap. 🙂 Love it!