Tuesday Tutorial # 23- Spotlight on the Nativity

Welcome back to another Tuesday Tutorial. This tutorial highlights the Spotlight Technique. I used the All Ye Faithful stamp set from Stampin' Up! The Spotlight in this card is on Mary and baby Jesus. I think I will also make another version of this Spotlight card with the Spotlight on the family, use a circle punch and include Joseph. I think it would have a greater impact.

You can get the tutorial now by using this link.  

 Have a blessed day,

Trude 

All Ye Faithful stamp set

 

The Newborn King Christmas Card

Here's another card that I created with The Newborn King stamp set. I "gift wrapped" the card with 1/8" silver ribbon. The Specialty Designer Series Paper is from the Holiday catalog and it is called All is Calm.

My Tips for this card:
I embossed the nativity scene with White craft ink and white Stampin' embossing powder to which I had added Dazzling Diamonds Stampin' glitter. I use about 3 parts of embossing powder to 1 part of glitter, mix it and use it for a little bit of added sparkle to my winter embossing scenes. It works great on wedding cards too. I get some inexpensive plastic containers to store the mixed powder in and I label the containers.

The sequins is from the Frosted Sequins pack in the holiday catalog. The pack contains about 450 pieces of sequins including small and large silver sequins and white snowflakes. I used the white snowflakes on the previous card that I posted.

The cardstocks are Lost Lagoon, Whisper White, and Coastal Cabana.

Have a Blessed Day!
Trude

The Newborn King Christmas Card for Freshly Made Sketches 152

Stampin' Up! The Newborn King stamp set

Here's a card that I created for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge 152. #FMS152

I used a new stamp set from the Stampin' Up! 2014 Holiday Catalog called, The Newborn King.

For this card I used:
Paper- Whisper White card stock, Marina Mist card stock, Night of Navy card stock, Silver Fancy Foil Designer Vellum
Stamp Set- The Newborn King
Ink- White Craft ink, Silver Encore
Other- Silver Baker's Twine, Oval Framelits collection, White Stampin' Embossing powder, Big Shot, Heat tool, Dimensionals, Lucky Stars Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

*My tip for this card: The next larger size oval framelit from the size that I used to cut the nativity out, was too big. It overwhelmed the oval art piece so I used the same framelit that I cut the nativity with and traced around the OUTSIDE perimeter of the framelit onto the Whisper white paper to get the size that was just right for this piece. Before I matted the white under the art piece, I sponged Silver Encore ink around the edges. I also randomly sponged some Encore Silver ink onto the embossed stars. Hope that helps you recreate the card.

Have a Blessed Day!
Trude