Christmas Lights Card

Hello!

Today is the fourth day of my Christmas Card week and I've got a bright and cheerful one to show you today!

Materials used:

• White card base and black card
• Gold foil paper
• Christmas light stamp (Fiskars)
• Merry Christmas tree shaped sentiment stamp (Sullivans)
• Red, green, yellow and blue ink
• Versamark ink
• Gold embossing powder (Ranger)
• Nesting circle dies (Couture Creations)
• Paper bow template
• Red, green, orange and blue glitter glue

The first thing I did was to trace lightly around the circle onto my card base so I could stamp my lights in something that closely resembled a circle (which wouldn't have happened if I tried to do it by eye). 

I had previously stamped out the lights on to some scrap paper in black so I could figure out which lights to stamp in each colour.  Thankfully it worked out really well in that there would be 8 lights in each colour so the pattern was easy to create.  There is a small amount of overlap on some of the lights because even with the pencil mark my stamping was a little off but its not highly noticeable.

Once the lights were done I left them to dry before I erased the pencil.  I then stamped and embossed my sentiment onto the circle which I adhered using foam tape.

I then looked at my card and thought the bottom half looked empty so I created a paper bow using a template to trace and cut out the different pieces of the bow.  I didn't want the bow to just float so I anchored it by placing a strip of the gold paper underneath.

The final step was to put the glitter glue over the lights which gave them a pretty sparkle and the effect that they were 'glowing'.

That is all for today's card, come back tomorrow for another!

Stacey

P.S. This card has been added to the Simon Says Stamp 'Bling it On' Challenge.