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Tuesday 14 July 2015

Delightful Digi's - Christmas Candle

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

We are well into the working week now. The end of term is marching ever closer. This week I have been mostly watching rehearsals for the Summer Production at school. This time they are putting on the panto Aladdin. I do marvel that so many of the children are confident enough to sing solos. I couldn't have done anything like that at their age.

I am sharing another Christmas card using an image and backing paper from the 2015 Christmas collection at Delightful Digi's.  Did you know that there is a Delightful Digi's Facebook group as well?


I used the Candle image and the Berries paper in red from the Christmas collection at Delightful Digi's. I haven't made an easel card in a while, ever since I found my poorly uncle displaying one on it's side. I thought it would be fun to have another go. I cut the biggest square card blank from a sheet of A4 that I could and I cut the topper from a second sheet. I discovered that my Tonic square dies matted nicely within this size so I used them to cut all the mats. 


This is the base of the card the stopper was made with a free die from a magazine last year. The corners were cut with a Spellbinder die. 


I coloured the image with Promarkers. To get the highlights on the berries I used a blender pen. For the background I cut a circle from a post-it note so I could cover the flame. Then I used a brush to lightly ink the background with blue. Once this was done I removed the post-it note and I covered the rest of the paper with a mask I made with a circle cut out so that I could ink the flame separately. 


It must be years since I made an easel card I will be making a few more. I do like making shaped cards I will just have to be careful who I send them to or be there when they are opened so I can explain how to display it. I have quite a collection of Christmas cards now but there are still more to make. 

I hope the rest of the week is kind to you. 

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

22 comments:

Linda Simpson said...

Gorgeous card, love the candle and beautiful papers.
Hugs
Linda xxx

KarinsArtScrap said...

beautiful christmas card Jackie
Gr Karin

Donna Mosley said...

Gorgeous card Jackie, love the image and beautiful dies.

Donna x

Holley (Tondre) Barnhart said...

Lovely coloring on that image today and beautiful card layout

Unknown said...

Hi Jackie, this is wonderful, I love how you have coloured the image and the design is fab. Hugs Jennifer xx

Jan said...

This is gorgeous xx Jan

Dawn said...

Gorgeous esel card Jackie! I ove the candle & the great colour combo!
Hugs
Dawn xx

pam said...

Beautiful easel Christmas card Jackie, love this image.
Hugs Pam x

Brawny x said...

Gorgeous card Jackie x

Andree said...

A lovely Christmas card Jackie xx

Jackie said...

A lovely image and card Jackie.
That's why I very rarely make easel cards nowadays, in case peeps don't know how they should be displayed :o)
Jackie xx

Crafty Judith said...

Beautiful card Jackie love easel cards and this is brill hugs xxx

jane stillman said...

Gorgeous card, love the image

Kathy said...

This is such a pretty card, Jackie, the candle image is lovely

Tracy Welham said...

Great card, I love the sketchy look of the image. Creative Blessings, Tracy x

Sandra Carey said...

Beautiful card Hugs Sandra xx

Tracey said...

Gorgeous Christmas card Jackie :o)
Hugs
Tracey
xx

Carole Pollard said...

Delightful I love traditional colours so this is perfect for me the image and easel design are just lovely love and hugs Carole x

karenlotty said...

It's a lovely card and again fantastic colouring I found a page of small "labels" on Debbie Moores website that explained how to display an easel card - if that helps...

Wheelie Crafty said...

Delightful Christmas card you have created Jackie, its really lovely...

Hugs xxx

Anonymous said...

Lovely image x

Sam Lewis said...

Fabulous colouring! I really must crack on and make some Christmas cards!

You made me chuckle with your story about you're uncle and the easel card! I have had a couple of relatives do similar!