Altenew • Advent Calendar Extravaganza 2016

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Hello everyone! Today I’m sharing a project I made for Altenew day of Taheerah Atchia Advent Calendar Extravaganza 2016 Advent Calendar Extravaganza 2016: Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are ONE HUNDRED special guests – each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where you’re going to be visiting next until you ‘open the door’!

I encourage you to visit Altenew blog to see more projects made for this event as well as for a chance to win a prize.

I’m so very pleased to participate in this great event. I have a card for you today featuring clear embossing onto a glitter paper.To make this card first I stamped several pine branches from Poinsettia and Pine using Evergreen ink onto an Side folding A2 card base that I made out of  Classic Crest Solar White cardstock. I also stamped several branches aside onto a white cardstock using Evergreen and Forest Glades inks. Which then were die-cut using corresponding dies.

Next I made two gold pinecones by clear embossing pines from the same stamp set onto gold glitter paper and die-cutting them using corresponding dies. I wanted pinecones to be gold and my first thought was to just gold emboss them onto a vellum or white cardstock. But as this stamp is an outlined one – they would only had gold outlines, but i wanted them to be completely gold. So I decided to go with gold glitter paper. I should say, that not all glitter paper can handle heat embossing. Such paper usually is made by gluing glitter to some base, and heat from a heat gun can make this glue bubble or cause some other strange behavior. As well as glitter can react on heat as well. I was using glitter paper from DCWV (I’m not sure they still sell that particular set I have, but I know they do have other glitter card stacks). And I worked carefully and fast, in order to not overheat paper.Then I did the same for poinsettia leaves, this time using silver glitter paper.After that I created a holiday composition placing all elements onto the card base on top of stamped pine branches.

The sentiment from Modern Deer was stamped onto a white cardstock using Evergreen ink and then fussy cut with scissors. I placed the sentiment on top of glitter cluster. Lastly I added several sequins to the card base.

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