A Joyful Christmas with Nicecrane Designs

Hi everyone. Thanks so much for joining me at this busy time of year. 

It's definitely busy if you've still got a ton of Christmas cards to make. Where did October and November go?!

Thankfully it was relatively quick to rustle up this set thanks to a set of digital images from Nicecrane Designs. 

Called 'A Joyful Christmas' you can find these wonderful designs HERE.

They are easy to resize and with a high resolution, each image is beautifully clear when printed.

So here's a flick through the set, combined with a brief description of the elements involved.

The images were cut to fit stamped.embossed apertures and given an inky distressed edge. They were then layered onto the die cut frames.

Have you noticed yourself looking at colours and thinking of them in their Distress form? When I looked at these images I saw Weathered Wood, Bundled Sage, Frayed Burlap and Tattered Rose.
That works when you are talking to someone else familiar with the Distress range, but everyone else tends to look at you rather oddly!

Creating the marbled note page layers was really easy with the Marbled Background stamp from The Artistic Stamper.
You can use coordinating stains on it to get a beautifully blended look.
As I've used this background stamp it seems rude not to enter The Artistic Stamper Creative Team challenge - Anything Goes.

The holly leaves got a little more complicated than initially envisaged. To give them a patina look a blend of alcohol inks was added to metal foil, and then some of the ink was removed using the Dot Fade stencil and Blending Solution. It definitely fitted with the whole vintage feel.

Hope you've enjoyed seeing what can be done with these fabulous images from Nicecrane Designs. There are any number of other fantastic Christmas images available too at a really good price, so it's well worth taking a look HERE.
I'll be back tomorrow with my first entry to a rather special challenge.
Hope you can join me then. In the meantime I'd like to wish you all a happy and productive weekend. Jenny x

ps. in response to a couple of queries, the frames were embossed onto watercolour card in Ranger silver embossing powder using this stamp;

http://www.creative-expressions.uk.com/productcatalogue/detail.php?pid=UMS508

the frame was then cut/embossed using this Spellbinders Nestabilities die set;

http://www.creative-expressions.uk.com/productcatalogue/detail.php?pid=WIZS5-161