Hero Arts Crystal Ornaments

I bought this set back in the January sales and had loads of ideas, of course I was sick of making christmas cards then so I didn't execute any and then when I come to use it this year, zilch, nada, diddly, no ideas at all lol.

In the end I decided to just stamp them, gold heat emboss and colour with gansai tambi starry watercolours. It is hard to tell in the photo but each bauble is a different gold colour, in the light they simply sparkle.

I made the same card twice and have added both colour variations, I don't have a favourite but you might

Green

Red

Ingredients
Image: "crystal ornaments" Hero Arts
Colour: "starry" Gansai Tambi
Card: "cherry cobbler" Stampin Up and "pinefeathers" Papertrey Ink, gold is from my scrap box
Dies: Blueprints 27
Sentiment: "keep it simple - merry christmas" Papertrey Ink
Embossing Powder: "gold fine" Simon Says Stamp

Starry Watercolour

This was such a fun and fast card to create. What took the longest time and was the hardest was the masking and embossing. I kind of wish I had mass produced it as I am not sure I will be in a rush to recreate all that masking and embossing lol.

Once all the embossing was cool I started by mixing the colours in the palette, I used a concentrated colour around the petals and then added more water to my brush and simply spread the colour out. I was astounded by how easy it was and how quickly it dried. Which is why I wished I had created more as the colouring took less than five minutes but the stamping much, much more.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiment: "Beautiful Day" Altenew
Dies: "funky stitched rectangles" MFT
Card: "true black" paper trey ink, random gold textured
Dots: Forever friends gold dome border
Embossing: "gold" simon says stamp