#845 – Merry Christmas Shadow Card

Hello and welcome! This is the last one in the series of Christmas cards I made to send out to friends. This one, I planned to make a shadow card, and I am quite happy with it, for being the very first attempt at it!

I first colored the critters I wanted to use inside this card (see below). The images are Purple Onion Designs Puddles and from My Favorite Things Sending Sweet Celebration Wishes stamp which I modified a bit to make them look Christmas-y. I stamped them on watercolor paper and colored them using Zig Brush pens. I also hand drew the christmas tree, since I didn’t have a stamp for that and colored it too. I then fussy cut them all out and set them aside.

For the card front, I picked a white cardstock panel, then colored it using distress oxide ink. I then splattered it with water and once dry, splattered it again with white paint and Unicorn paint from Prima (its a beautiful golden silver sheen!!). I also added a few more dots of glitter using a glitter pen.

Finally, coming to the inside of the card. I followed the tutorial by Jennifer McGuire here. I colored the inside background using more distress oxide ink and then splattered it with water and then the Unicorn paint. The star banner in the background came from Reverse Confetti Star Garland die. I die cut a couple of pieces, drew the stars on top, then colored them.

Before adhering the pieces on the card, I added glitter on the white parts of the critters’ caps, the present, the baubles and the stars. I also added glossy accents on the baubles and stars and let it dry completely. Finally I adhered all the pieces together.

At this point, I realized I didn’t have any sentiment inside, although I had planned to add something. So I used the sentiment from Neat & Tangled Scandinavian Prints Christmas stamp and stamped it on the bottom of the window.

The sentiment on the front of the card is from Stamplorations, called Merry Christmas. I cut out a few pieces using white cardstock, and the top one using gold mirror cardstock. I adhered the pieces together by stacking them. To finish the top of the card, I adhered the panel I created earlier directly on the white card base and then adhered the sentiment on top.

I am joining the following challenges –

Simon Says Stamp: Christmas Card Day

Happy Little Stampers December Christmas challenge: Anything Goes with optional Candy Cane (I haven’t used the candy cane)

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge: Party Time

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