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Sunday 13 March 2011

An aperture card for Bah Humbug

I'm back on a roll with my weekly Christmas cards for the challenge over at Bah Humbug after my bad start to the year. I love making christmas cards so its great to make them through the year and save that last minute panic. Anyway the lovely ladies of Bah Humbug Hall have challenged us to use an aperture in our creations this week. For my card i've used a circular aperture for the moon on this little scene I created


I've just got the 'New England Winter' stamp plate from Elusive Images or perhaps I should say Chocolate Baroque now and I was itching to use the beautiful cottage stamp. I stamped and masked the large cottage on some glossy card and stamped the smaller house and trees (also from Elusive images) and then inked the background with a shaving brush. I bravely splattered water all over my carefully created background to create the effect of snow.

The image is coloured with promarkers, now I love promarkers but colouring on glossy card is a totally different ball game to ordinary card. I've seen Barbara Gray recommend letting each colour dry but I haven't the patience for that lol. I've found it best to lay down a layer of a really pale colour like ivory and then add the other colours over it. I've added some white gel pen snow and lots of snowflake white glitter although its a bit camera shy :-)

Now the aperture was a bit of a headache as I suddenly decided I wanted to use this beautiful sentiment by Clarity stamps in side the moon but my card was too small to fit the circle in. I'd planned on using my cricut but after a lot of head scratching I went for it with my Lighthouse shape cutter and cut the circle part way round until I got to the trees and housetop and then carefully cut round them. Talk about crafting by the seat of your pants lol! I'd have been really miffed if I'd snipped off the top of one of the trees. Anyway all went smoothly and I managed not to lop the trees. The sentiment is stamped on vellum and the main image is layered up with 3d foam and edged with gold krylon pen.

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges : Include a tree on your project
Paper Romance: Use as many colours as possible
Pollycraft: Fly me to the moon
Sweet Stamps: Parchment/Vellum
Lawnscaping: Use a stamp in an unusual way (stamping the sentiment on the moon)

Thanks for visiting today. i've had a lovely day messing around with ink and stuff. I'm going to grab my place on the sofa now ready for Dancing on Ice. I love Sunday evenings, its such a shame Monday mornings follow so quickly lol
Claire xx

29 comments:

  1. Claire I love these stamps and one day hope they become available again. I love what you've done with them, and just a touch of glitter in the right places adds a finishing touch.
    Jenny x

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  2. Stunning card Claire, very clever with your aperture.
    Beryl x

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  3. OH my gosh Claire! This is so so beautiful! I absolutely love the idea of the moon aperture! Its really lovely!

    Thanks so much for joining us at IDIC this week xxx

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  4. Hi lovely card and a great idea. Hugs x ChrisB

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  5. This is a gorgeous card - I love everything about it - so much detail. I think it's great how you did the aperture and I love the stamps you've used (some more that need to go on my wish list, I think). Thank you for joining in my CHNC challenge 11 - hope to see you again soon. x

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  6. Beautiful job! I love the scene and your snow is just wonderful! Gorgeous card! I agree about getting the Christmas cards done!

    Thanks so much for playing along with the challenges at Stamping Vacation! This earns you entry in the April 1st $25.00 gift certificate drawing to the store of your choice!

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  7. What a stunning card Claire, love the image and the fabulous aperture moon.

    Thanks for joining us this week for our challenge over at Pollycraft.

    Hugs

    Joanne xx

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  8. This is stunning Claire. Love the background, the way you have done the stamping, the apeture, all of it. Fab card.
    Jen x

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  9. Absolutely gorgeous card, Claire! I love the way you used the sentiment on the moon - and well done for cutting (some of)it freehand

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  10. Lovely card Claire. I like the moon aperture and your lovely night sky.

    Janet xx

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  11. Absolutely stunning Claire and so much work and detail has gone into it. I love every element of it, x

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  12. Wow....soooo pretty!!! Thank you for playing along in the Paper Romance Challenge this week. Wonderful job.

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  13. So so pretty! The sky is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing this at Paper Romance!

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  14. This is such a gorgeous card!! I really like the way you have arranged everything and the moon with the sentiment is outstanding.

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  15. Wonderful card I love how you have used the vellum Thank you for joining in at Sweet Stamps this week, hope you can join us again on Tuesday for our next challenge
    Hugs
    Tamara

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  16. Claire, Your card is Stunning, in fact I think its the nicest card I've seen so far this year. Love the moon aperture ,its beautiful. Hugs Rita xxx

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  17. Wow, this is just lovely and I really like the vellum moon. I can feel the frost in the air! Good luck and thanks for joining in on the fun at Sweet Stamps.

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  18. Claire, this is gorgeous! What a beautiful Christmas card, I love the shimmer you've added! Thanks for joining the challenge at SweetStamps.com this week and good luck!

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  19. Beautiful Christmas Card. Thanks for joining us at Sweet Stamps....

    Dawn B

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  20. Claire, your card is absolutely gorgeous!! WOW! you put alot of heart into this beautiful Christmas card. Thanks for joining us at Sweet Stamps Challenge.

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  21. Beautiful card. I love the whole "feel" of this card. Thanks for joining us at Sweet Stamps.

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  22. Claire I bought this set of stamps after seeing the last card you made using them but this one is even better. It is totally stunning. You should be on the Chocolate Baroque DT - I am blown away by this one it's just amazing.
    Ann xxx
    Bah! Humbug! DT

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  23. OMG Claire, what can I say, such a gorgeous scene and your snow looks fab. Hugs Suzanne x

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  24. Claire, your Christmas card is WOW! Simply gorgeous! I love this Set and the gold embossed sentiment! Thank you so much for playing the C4C with us this week! Hugs ~S~

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  25. Absolutely STUNNING Claire! A beautiful work of art :)
    Hugs xx

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  26. Ooops...forgot...congrats on your Pollycraft win :)

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  27. WOW such a wonderful job you done with this card :)

    Thank you for joining us at IDIC this week.

    Hugs Gurkiss

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  28. Beautiful, lovely, stunning. I love it. Thanks for joining us at I Did It Creations.

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