Stempelglede Design Call 2014

 Good evening!  Firstly I'd like to wish you all a happy new year!  Welcome to my first post of 2014 - it is a very special post for me as I am entering the Stempelglede Design Call - I have hoped and wished for Stempelglede to have a design team call ever since I first discovered Gunhild's stamps many years ago!  As you can see I made a Christmas card for my entry even though I sat down to create a few days after Christmas!  I took out all of my Stempelglede stamp sets to decide which to use and wondered if the gorgeous "Petit Oiseau" stamp from the Vintage Garden Set would work coloured as a robin.

 The image is coloured with copics.  I coloured the flowers to look like Hellebores (Christmas Roses) to complete the transformation of the image into a Christmas themed one.  I have added stickles to the flower centres.

 I used another stamp from the Vintage Garden collection around the edges of the image mat and then inked around the edges with Weathered Wood Distress Ink.  To make the bird's eye look realistic I added some glossy accents to it.

 I used two of the flower stamps from Stempelglede's Grunge Collection and stamped them with Bundled Sage Distress Ink.  I then cut them out and cut down each petal so that I could create Hellebores.  I have added some spots to the centres with a copic marker which I have also used to colour the stamens.

 I used all of the snowflake stamps from Stempelglede's Angelic Greetings stamp set to decorate the card base.  I embossed some of them with Shabby White Frantage and the rest are stamped with Weathered Wood Distress Ink.  The edges of the card base have been inked with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  The edges of the card were cut using Tim Holtz' Distressed Doily die.

 Behind the image I have tucked some cheesecloth and some snowflake Christmas ornaments.

 There are also some delicate metal snowflakes sprinkled among the flower sprays.

The picture above shows the card when it is opened out flat.  It can also fold up for posting.

On the back of the card I have stamped a sentiment from the Angelic Greetings stamp set, embossed in gold.

I hope you like my entry to the Stempelglede Design Call 2014 and thank you for looking!  I would also like to show three other projects as part of my entry.  Just click on the photos to take you to the original blog posts!

Using Stempelglede stamps, these vintage gift tags I made for teacher's gifts this summer;

and the little tin I altered last summer which contained a sweet message using a stamp from Stempelglede's Just a Note set.

Lastly, my favourite stair step card from 2013!