Stocking Christmas Card/Gift Card Holder

I saw in a book a simple card with a stocking on front and got to thinking that if the stocking was large enough it could be used to hold a gift card. After a little bit of trial and error I managed to get the stocking large enough to hold a gift card but still fit on an A2 card.

The silver trim on the edge of the card doesn't really show up  in the photo but I took a silver paint pen to draw a line. I used for my background a piece of sheet music that I scanned a few years ago.  I used a stencil on the stocking and airbrushed with a marker. I then took a gel marker and did my faux stitching around the stocking. I didn't have any buttons the right color so I went and brushed those and the scrap floss with an air brush. I took a piece of ribbon for the loop at the top of the stocking.

Here it is with a gift card inside. I normally don't do gift cards but with the price of shipping things it is more practical if you want to give something to someone who lives out of town.. Also sometimes it is nice if the receiver can pick out what they want. For example every year I buy my grandchildren books but I thought they might have fun picking out their own book for a change this year. Do you give out gift cards?

I plan to be working on more Christmas cards so do come back. Wishing you Happy Frugal Crafting till we meet again!

Airbrushing On Balsa Wood Shape

Hi everyone I hope you are having a wonderful week. Yesterday I had fun using my e-Brush on a balsa wood shape as well as using a stencil and heat embossing. Unfortunately the photo does not do it justice. I need to  buy something to seal it with and then I'll glue a pin back on it. If my granddaughter wants I have plenty of balsa wood shapes which I bought a couple of years ago at Dollar Tree so she can make some pins, barrettes,or ornaments for Christmas gifts.

First I used my eBrush and did the background as well as edging it. Then I masked off all except for the body section of the butterfly and airbrushed. Then I masked off the body and airbrushed using a stencil on one wing and then flipped the stencil over and did the other wing. Then I took a circles stencil and using an embossing pen embossed some of the circles with Zing gold embossing powder. Then I took Shimmer Creative Medium and with a cosmetic wedge applied it all over the front.

Next thing I'll be doing with the eBrush is to do some buttons for on a card. If I can find my small stars stencil I'll stencil a star in the middle.

If you have not tried using a stencil for heat embossing you might want to try it. Use either an embossing pen or embossing liquid with a dauber. Then lift up carefully your stencil and add your embossing powder and emboss like regular.

Thank you for taking time out of your busy life to visit. Wishing you Happy Frugal Crafting till we meet again!

Airbrushed Christmas Card

Hi everyone another week has started but this week there is no altered card challenge as Claudine had surgery. I thought since there are no cards to do to go ahead and play. You know I like to experiment so I decided to see if the texture medium I found would work with a metal embossing stencil.. Of course I also wanted to play with my airbrush. At first I was not pleased with the card and in fact was ready to throw it away. Then I decided to see what I could do to turn it into something which I liked.

The card base was cut from a piece of shimmer cardstock. I normally don't like to use it because the white core shows where it has been cut. This time though since I had planned to ink the edge with silver I went ahead as it really makes my panel pop.

I took a scrap from a print and cut and put a Lasting Impression metal template on it. I could not find this template anywhere but I did find a Curly Merry Christmas template which would work by Lating Impressions.  I carefully covered with scrap the places I did not want to get the texture medium on.  I carefully lifted the template after I was through applying the medium. When the medium was dry I went and put my template back down. I once again masked this time where I did not want to get ink. I then used the Spectrum Noir blue marker which came with the airbrush. I didn't get the template exactly where the texture medium was but I love the shadow which I got. 

I then took my eBrush and used two different colorss of green. I wanted a mottled look so in some places I  keep going over and over until it was darker.

I  then used a white embossing pad with a cosmetic wedge. I applied Stampendous Winter Wonderland embossing powder but then took a bristle brush and brushed most of  the embossing powder off before using my heat gun. After using the heat gun melting the embossing powder I once again put the template down. Then this time  I put the template back down and got it where it originally was when I applied the texture medium. I then used my gel white pen to trace around the letters.

I don't remember who makes the holly rounder punch but I used it on the corners. I then backed the panel with green corrugated cardboard. I used a red glaze pen to color the berries. I love how the corrugated cardboard adds a nice texture. I'm going to keep in mind using corrugated cardboard behind cutouts.

To finish the panel I edged with Colorbox green. Which covered the brown edges as well as added definition to the panel. 

That is all for now. Thanks for stopping and do come back. Wishing you Happy Frugal Crafting till we meet again!