Kia ora Koutou

Here is my second card for the Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge on Facebook. The challenge for this month is to use stripes and I have made another Christmas card that is so festive with the traditional colours of gold, reds and greens with a diagonal stripe in red sparkles

I have hot foiled the Pink Fresh Studio Diagonal Plaid Press Plate in red glitter foil for the striped background. I have also hot foiled plain cardstock with the same red glitter foil and the Aura foil and die cut the bells, the ribbon and the berries from this coloured card. The bells really sparkle and all the gold is so shiny and the decorative elements harmonise well together. The matted layer of gold behind the striped layer is also hot foiled using the Aura foil and was left after die cutting the gold frame out.

I have used the Honey Bee Stamps Pierced Fancy Flakes A2 Cover Plate on white cardstock and die cut it out with the medium plain edge die from the Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner dies. For the frame I have hot foiled the Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner dies with Aura foil and then die cut a frame with the coordinating dies. This was added to the pierced white base with foam tape for dimension.

Once the bells and the bow had been assembled I added them to the top left corner of the frame using foam tape. I then added foliage cut from various green and brown cardstocks plus the red berries using the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery die set over the top of the bells as shown.

The bird has come from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds and is nestled among the greenery.

The sentiment is from the Pink Fresh Studio Foiled Sentiments 4 Holiday Pack and has been added to the card using foam tape.

To make the red sparkles I used a red Copic marker to colour clear sparkles which were then added to the card around the sentiment and on the bow for extra sparkle.

Products Used:

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Layering Holiday Bells

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery

Honey Bee Stamps Pierced Fancy Flakes A2 Cover Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner Frames

Pink Fresh Studio Diagonal Plaid Press Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Foiled Sentiments 4 Holiday

Spellbinders Foil – Aura, Speckled Red, Red

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Rainforest, Fern

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Mushroom, Cayenne, Pebble, 

?House of Cards Cardstock – 

Gina K Cardstock – Chocolate Truffle

Distress ink – Scorched Timber, Mowed Lawn

Clear Sparkles 

Copic Marker – R46

Foam Tape

Foam Squares

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Patricia