Another distressed Christmas card!

Being a newbie in paper-crafting for a year and a half, 'distressing style' is an area that I haven't dipped as much as I should.  It's all about colours, and how you mix and play with them, creating utterly new visual affects on the card.  Which, to someone who went to a school of colour and design in Sydney,  is something I should really give it a full go and get addicted to.

So today, after a very first attempt trying it with the Christmas theme last night, I decided to make another one.  Same technique as my first distressed Christmas card, I made this.

Instead of the purple frame from the first one, I decided to put the distressed panel in a red one, suggesting more of a Christmasy feel.  Well apparently I still have more practice to do in terms of the mixing of different colours, but I'm quite happy with the result.  Very happy with the doily stamps from KaiserCraft and Prima Marketing, as well as the generic ones found in Taiwan (no name brand)






 

Forest Fantasty Christmas Card - with embossing resist technique

Yesterday while my hard-working husband was too tired to tell me to go to bed early, I managed to finish a card inspired by Jennifer Mcquire's starry night sky card demonstration, with the 'emboss resist' technique.  Because I rarely make distressed styles, this is one of the few that I actually enjoyed and accomplished with great satisfaction.

Well, I do not have all of Jennifer's gadgets, so I simple use what's at hand to make it. And I don't even have a proper snow flake stamp! Eventually I found a teeny tiny snowflakeskish (forgive my crappy English) stamp to make it.  To be honest I'm not sure about the flakes.

So, here it is.  (I also made a bow too but not sure if it's unnessary.)

This card is also up for  CAS-ual Fridays challenge! 

Tools used:  

Stamp - Inky Antics and Inkadinkado

White embossing powder by AC Zing!

Ink pads from Versacolor - Scarlet and Turquoise 

Here're the pictures before the snowflakes