James the Bear

It's the halfway point of our 'Up to you' challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge and I've made a little midway reminder card to share.  This has been painted with my distress inks.  I'm still getting used to them and am really struggling with certain colours.  Red seems to be the hardest for me to get blending.  I need to add some water to the ink before painting otherwise it just will not blend.  My card is also struggling and sometime gets a bit rough.  I think I need a lot more practice!!!

Anyway, I'm sharing LOTV's James (no red you may notice!).  I've also used some Gold mirror card which I used to use on all my cards when I first started cardmaking, but I don't think I've used it for a couple of years now, so I thought I'd get it out.  It seemed to match well with the cream backing papers.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - James Bear Christmas Cracker from LOTV
• Sentiment - Typed
• Bistro Label Die - The Stamp Basket
• Colouring - Distress re-inkers from The Stamp Basket
• Scalloped Edge card base - The Stamp Basket
• Papers - Nitwits
• Nesties - Labels 18
• Memory Box snowflake corner die - The Stamp Basket
• Ribbon - The Stamp Basket
• Pearls - Wild Orchid Crafts
• Crystal Glamour Dust - The Stamp Basket
• Liquid Pearls - The Stamp Basket
• From my stash -  Fancy wool, Glossy accents

Please pop on over to the  ABC Christmas challenge blog to see the other creations by the talented design team, and to enter our challenge.  I look forward to seeing your creations this week.

I've been inspired by:

• Wild Orchid Crafts - Gold / Silver
• Totally Papercrafts - Christmas
• Creative Craft - All About 3 (3 dies - Nestie for image, bistro label for sentiment, and snowflake corner for embellishment)

Happy crafting.