Watercolored Gift Set
Posted: December 8, 2010 Filed under: All That Glitters, CAS 9 CommentsRecently a friend of mine celebrated her 50th birthday. Because her birthday is in late November I decided to create a set of Christmas cards and tags as her gift. It is a gift she will end up giving away but hopefully she will still enjoy it.
I have been wanting to create some watercoloured Christmas balls so a gift set was the perfect opportunity. I created one sheet of randomly blended watercolour first using blue, green and pink ink on wet watercolour paper and when it dried I stamped the Christmas balls all over it and embossed in gold. The time consuming part was cutting all the balls out. Once that was done I started playing with combinations of balls. The first card took forever as I threaded the gold cord through the card so that it could attach to each ball and then added little bows. It was at this point that I doubted my decision to make a gift set. Things sped up after that and I got all the cards made and finished off with a few tags.
On a couple of cards I threaded the cord through the loop of the ball but did not adhere the ball so it swings when you tip the card from side to side. I thought this little gimmick was cute; I just hope it doesn’t break off the cord at some point.
Some of the Christmas balls are stuck directly on the cardstock; others I popped them up on stampin’ dimensionals. For the little balls I did not use real cord, instead I drew cord and bows with a gold gel pen.
Thanks for dropping by, I know it’s been rather quiet here lately. I started writing Christmas cards yesterday and it seems I might need a few more. That is fine with me; I have had much stamping time lately.
Supplies:
Stamps: Short and Sweet, All that Glitters(Flourishes), Many Merry Messages, Graceful words
Inks: Versamark, Not quite Navy, Garden Green, Pretty in Pink, Bravo Burgandy, Riding Hood Red
Cardstock: Flourishes classic white, Fabriano Hot pressed watercolour paper, Not quite Navy, Riding Hood Red, Pretty in Pink
Also: Gold e.p., Gold cord, Gold gel pen, Stampin’ dimensionals
Heather Telford 
It’s good to hear from you again…I’ve missed you. I always love your creations…and these cards are no exception! Thanks!
Just beautiful Heather!
I love those multicoloured baubles and the the stamps are just gorgeous!
Chrissie
These are beautiful holiday notecards! These would be hard to give away instead of framing them! I do love the watercoloring, and the gold embossing makes the cards so elegant. The gold cord finishes it all off beautifully. Lovely job, Heather.
Gorgeous cards Heather, the watercolouring looks fantastic and I love your bauble stamps too. A lovely gift and I’m sure will be much appreciated. Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas. 🙂
These are all gorgeous! I love how you left the ornament loose so that it swings.
Your cutting job blows me away……..what’s more difficult than making straight cuts look curved? I’m with Sue; I couldn’t make myself give them away. They deserve to be framed.
Bravo!
What a fabulous set of Christmas cards, Heather! There is so much inspiration and beauty here.
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Gorgeous watercolored ornament gift set. TFS every card. Happy Holidays….