The Card Concept Challenge - Rustic Holiday

 Welcome to another Card Concept challenge.

Are you getting in the holiday mood yet? For card makers, it's never too soon - we seem to begin making Christmas cards and crafts around July, lol. And as you can see from the gorgeous inspiration picture above, our new challenge has the holidays as its theme - in fact, it's RUSTIC HOLIDAY.

The aspects that influenced my mixed media card were all the greenery, the poinsettias and the wood panel walls. 

Sooooo much inky fun with this card! Firstly with the background, using woodgrain card and a combination of distress spray stains and distress oxide sprays. Then to add an aged/distressed look I randomly spread a thin coat of crackle texture paste - here you can see the very fine cracks (which were later highlighted with distress crayons).

My greenery was more inky fun, again mixing dye and oxide sprays using four shades of green until I was happy with the result. The holly leaves were scored down the middle so they could be bent and all my greenery was given a light sponging of brown around the edges for depth. It's the first time I've used this tattered poinsettia die and embossing folder combo and I must admit to loving it, especially how the petals are not all exactly the same size and shape. Here I used two each of the smallest and middle sized flower pieces cut from cherry cobbler card (my fav Christmas red of all time 😉). 

Materials used:

• stamps - Four the Holidays (SU)
• card - watercolour, early espresso (SU), cherry cobbler (SU), woodgrain (TH)
• Tim Holtz/Sizzix dies - mini holiday greens; tattered poinsettia; funky wreath
• distress spray stains - frayed burlap, gathered twigs, mowed lawn, rustic wilderness
• distress oxide sprays - vintage photo, bundled sage, peeled paint, rustic wilderness
• distress oxide inks - rustic wilderness, vintage photo
• distress crayons - walnut stain, vintage photo
• other - distress texture paste crackle, ground espresso archival ink, heat tool, water spritzer, mini glue dots, distress embossing glaze - rustic wilderness, Dimensionals, pearls, hot glue gun, scoring tool, tattered poinsettia embossing folder, blending brush

My fellow team mates have created some gorgeous samples to share with you and hopefully inspire you to join us in the challenge for a rustic holiday card, so please click on this link to The Card Concept blog to check them out.

Thanks for dropping by.

Cheers

Kerry