Hi there,

Would you like a few more ornaments before I move onto something else? Ah go on then, you’ve twisted arm. I’ve used the same shapes but have added some patterns that come with the software I use. I hope you like them.

I changed the colour of the digis to blue using the method shown in this post, then printed, trimmed and sponged with some faded jeans and broken china distress ink. I added some silver embossing powder to the tops and covered with Glossy Accents and allowed to dry, once dry I added some silver thread then popped them onto my card with differing depths of 3D foam pads. I added some shiny edged ribbon to the largest ornament and some mini gems to match the pattern to make this ornament the focal point.

Ok, no more ornaments this year, promise!

Here are your digis:

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Hey, I have some more Ornaments for you today, round ones this time.

I printed Ornament no.2, cut it out and coloured it with Prismas and OMS then I hit a snag. I wanted to emboss my snowflake with gold embossing powder but it was rather small so an experiment was called for. I drew over the snowflake with a ballpoint glue pen then poured over the embossing powder and heat embossed and it worked! Using glue for embossing may not be new to some of you but it sure is to me, it doesn’t take much to get me excited! You know what they say ‘little things please little minds’ he he. Having glue in a ballpoint pen means that I’ll be able to emboss handwriting too so I’m going to have lots of fun with this! I see lots of hand drawn patterns and sentiments in my future lol, ooh and tracing on vellum and outlining die cuts and, and…. ok I’ll shut up now.

Here is your digi:

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Hello There,

I have some Long Ornament Digital Stamps for you today, one plain and one has a star on and for those of you with a beedy eye you will see that there is a new ornament section up in the digital stamp menu so there are likely to be more of these to come. Also I wanted to mention that there are some cut files coming, I have been designing some but I want to road test them first before I pop them up.

My plan for this project was to make a card with a fairly limited colour palette but using lots of textures and shine to create interest, it looks very effective in the ‘flesh’, honest! I printed out my ornaments in 3 sizes, cut them out and coloured with markers then used 3 different finishes on them which allow the design to show through; crystal glitter, holographic glitter and crystal embossing powder. After attaching some embroidery thread on the backs and some little ribbon bows in different shades on the front of the ornaments, I popped them onto a label nine die cut with 3D foam pads. This is backed with some beige textured card covered with some gold patterned vellum held into place with some antique gold brads.

Here is your digi:

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