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Polkadoodles - Red & Green Christmas project

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  Morning Crafters, This week the design team were tasked to create a Christmas project but keeping to red and green as our colour palette. For my project I created a Christmas card.    I used the Rudolph Reindeer Wreath digital image - I coloured the image in using my spectrum noir alcohol markers using traditional Red and Green colours but overlaid the red with an embossing pen so that I could add some red glitter embossing powder which created some sparkle and texture. For my sentiment “ Believe” I used the Winnie White Christmas sentiment bundle - which I printed using my laser printer so that I could cover with green deco foil and ran through my laminator to give a foiled effect. To complete the card, I cut out elements of a poinsettia flower using my scan and cut machine and adhered this to the right side of the card. I really wish you could see this card in real life – It’s just full of texture and sparkle! Happy Crafting! Mel x Challenges entered ...

Polkadoodles - Christmas card for a Man using two chosen digital papers

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  Morning Crafters, I am back with some more Christmas inspiration from Polkadoodles. It's choosday which means it is time to enter our 'Anything Goes Challenge' over at  Polkadoodles Digi Choosday .  Remember to check out the blog for full details and to grab your code to receive a very generous discount from the  Polkadoodles shop . For this weeks challenge, the design team were tasked with creating something for a Man at Christmas using two chosen digital papers. For my project I created a Christmas card using  Gnome Festive Fun - Put your boots on digital image  which was the pre-coloured version. I printed this image using my Canon Pixma printer and die cut it out using a basic square shaped die. For my chosen papers, I used  Elvis Wesley Moose themed digital papers  which I die cut out using a basic rectangle stitched die and then cut in half. I then used one of each half to create my background and added a thin red cardstock strip to bring ...