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Sunday, 7 February 2016

christmas card club - texture

Hello Lovelies - how are you this fine morning? Just a quick reminder that my candy will end tonight - I will post winners tomorrow morning.

Its my turn at Christmas card Club this fortnight and I chose the theme of texture. I had a lovely time making a large masterboard including paint and ink and silver paste with a stencil and then I cut four backgrounds from it and made 4 cards including the lovely Tim Holtz snowflake that is embossed.


Here's the four cards i made.


Ans a closer view - I mostly fresco paints from paperartsy to create the background and also did some stamping with them - the stamp is a TH one. The stencil paste is silver and is from Wendy Vecchi and I used a TH layering stencil.


A final look to show the variety of texture that I added to my cards.

I hope you have a great Sunday - we are off to visit my mum and dad and then later the girls are going to a party!

Big hugs to you!

Rachel x

35 comments:

  1. Four wonderful cards Rachel
    Hugs Janet xxx

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  2. Super cards Rachel and well done on getting into them early.

    Hope you have a good Sunday.

    B x

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  3. Morning Rachel, gorgeous cards. I love snowflakes :) xx

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  4. Stunning cards Rachel,the gorgeous background is perfect for those wonderful snowflakes.

    Hugs Sue xx

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  5. Beautiful cards and wonderful texture. Thanks for a fun challenge I really enjoyed it Rachel. Zx

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  6. Great theme and what a wonderful card! Love it, great work with those snowflakes!!

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  7. Your snowflake background looks great and you have created four fabulous cards. Wish I could get inky and messy and end up with this result, I just end up getting inky and messy and no cards, lol.
    Lorraine

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  8. These are beautiful Rachel. The stamping on the back looks lovely and that big snowflake is super. Barbxx

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  9. Hi Rachel
    Gorgeous snowflakes fabulous....
    Hugs Sylvie xx

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  10. loving your cards Rachel.fabulous textures and wonderful snowflake...the challenge made me get a bit messy....thank you I really enjoyed it!

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  11. Fabulous cards and the texture is gorgeous.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  12. Great card, love that stunning Snowflake.
    Patricia x

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  13. Beautiful.... love making backgrounds

    Crafty hugs Pen x

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  14. The textured snowflakes look beautiful on the wonderful background you created Rachel. Lovely cards! Hugs, Anne xx

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  15. WOW!! that snowflake is gorgeous Rachel and your background is fabulous. Your card is so beautiful, and thank you so much for the challenge, I enjoyed working with the texture theme, Kate x

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  16. Hi Rachel, here I am doing my rounds of the blogs! I love hese little beauties! The background colours are perfect & that snowflake is amazing!
    Hugs
    Dawn xx

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  17. Love these gleaming silver snowflakes. They look fantastic on the wonderful icy blue backgrounds, and clever you, 4 at one go! That's a good head start for your 2016 stash. Thanks for a fun challenge (even though I was late arriving for it!). TFS & have a great week.

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  18. Gorgeous cards Rachel, the blue and silver is a fabulous combination.
    Pauline
    x

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  19. I certainly know why you picked texture - your cards are fabulous - Love the blue and white and the star of the show - silver snowfalkes!
    sandy xx

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  20. I applaud you for creating Christmas cards at this time of the year!!! Wish I could be so organised, would save me so much hassle come November!
    Beautiful cards.
    Wishes
    Lynne

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  21. These are just lovely great to get a start on Christmas
    Hugs Nikki

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  22. Four perfect cards here. Thankyou for making me think outside of the box on your excellent choice of texture. I love those snowflakes. I actually made one to go on my first card and then changed the image so discarded it. Hugs Mrs A.

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  23. Gosh, Rachel, you can create faster than I can type! I love these 4 cards; that is my favorite winter die and stencil, and have gotten quite a bit of use out of it myself. Love your dreamy backgrounds! Hugs!

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  24. Beautiful designed card, lovely colour combo as well...xx {aNNie}

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  25. Super cool cards, Rachel! I love your dreamy colours and that layered snowflake die is so beautiful! Marvelous design! Hugs! Branka x

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  26. Four stunning cads. The backgrounds look so beautiful and the silver embossed snowflakes are stunning!

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  27. These are so pretty Rachel I love Tim's layered snowflake and it sits perfect against your beautiful background on these cards. Mo x

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  28. These are wonderful, Rachel - so tempted by that snowflake! Gorgeous shimmering cards.
    Alison xx

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  29. Fabulous cards Rachel. Love the snowflake.
    Mags
    x

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  30. Gorgeous cards Rachel. Sorry I was late with mine this time. Thank you for the challenge though. Hugs Rita xxx

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  31. These are fabulous Rachel! I would have loved to use a stencil but no Christmas ones - but you have pushed me to look for some now! Hugs Christine xx

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  32. Beautiful and oh so perfect! I have always had a thing for blue and white and snowflakes for Christmas and these are perfection. I deliberately shot past your Tim tag 'cos I'm still working on mine, lol, I try to avoid looking at anyone's until after I've made mine so that I'm not influenced by their design. It doesn't help that I am slow at this MM and mucky stuff too Karen xx

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