Blue Christmas

The picture above is our inspiration over at The Play Date Cafe, the colours being beige, pale blue and pale mint-ish green, I love the leaf in this picture.

I have created a couple of Christmas cards for the challenge, this one is using a bauble stamp from Penny Black stamped with DI antique linen and tumbled glass.   I have hand stitched around the edge with pale blue thread and added three fragments and some tissue tape to the edge.

I have used the same stamp for my second card but this time used DI tumbled glass and shabby shutters although due to the poor light it looks more beige than pale green ish.  I have created the background with DI inks and spritzing with water.  I have added beige thread, fragment and Officially Winter sentiment.

My final piece uses a glass bauble and an Inkadinkado collage stamp, I have added cloudy blue alcohol ink to the edges of the glass piece.  A fragment has been added to the bauble which has then been mounted onto a  piece of corrugated card and hand stitched around the edges.  I have also drawn around the bauble onto shrink plastic adding the same image to each piece.  The collage has been stamped onto white card with tumbled glass ink and I have cut out some of the text individually and added to the card. 

I am also adding these pieces to The Compendium of Curiosities challenge where the challenge this week is FRAGMENT CHARMS.  For the technique you need to turn to page 64 of the book.  Pop over to Linda's place and check out all the details.  Tracy xx