Christmas Dove Card

So, this was the card I made my mum for Christmas. It was inspired by a design I saw in Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine a couple of issues ago. The original had a snowflake on purple, which I made and sent to my grandma.

This is the kind of card I really enjoy making - a beautiful impact for a relatively simple design and make (although the way I did it was far more complicated than it needed to be, lol)

I couldn't find the colour card I wanted, so I stamped my dove image with Versamark onto white card, and clear embossed over the top. I inked directly over the image and card in blue ink, then rubbed over the top with some cotton wool so the image came through. The easier way to do this would be to use a coloured card, and emboss in white!

The snowflake background and message are stamped in the same colour as the ink I used behind the dove - so I guess this is a benefit to the long way round! I embossed the message, and mounted it on 3D foam for a bit of depth. All the other layers are stuck flat with sticky dots and double sided tape.