Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Distressed Ornaments

This month’s challenge at Hero Arts is to create gift tags or handmade gifts, or to create a card\project incorporating inking techniques.

Broken China Christmas Ornaments
Stamps (Hero Arts) – Decorative Ornament & Three Christmas Trees.

Since I’m in Christmas card making mode at the moment I decided to pull out my Decorative Ornament stamp which I’ll probably use on lots of my Christmas cards this year. I inked up the stamp with broken china\worn lipstick distress inks and, using a technique that I had seen in one of Jennifer McGuire’s videos, spritzed the stamp with water before stamping.



I love seeing what the image turns out like when it's fully dry. The images never seem to turn out exactly the same but I like the effect.

Worn Lipstick Christmas Ornaments
Stamps (Hero Arts) – Decorative Ornament & Three Christmas Trees.

I stamped the sentiments with the same distress inks and used pink yarn and some white yarn coloured with broken china distress ink. The backgrounds are embossed with the Cuttlebug snowflake folder and I added some gems. To finish I just added some machine stitching.
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16 comments:

  1. PatriciaNovember 10, 2010 at 12:34 PM

    so beautiful cards i love it =P

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  2. AnonymousNovember 10, 2010 at 1:30 PM

    Wow! I absolutely love these cards! :)

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  3. RosemaryNovember 10, 2010 at 2:05 PM

    very pretty, heather! the watercolor look of the ornaments is just lovely!

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  4. walchowDesignNovember 10, 2010 at 2:18 PM

    I love how you made the ornaments hanging onto the strings and the strings are neatly hidden behind the embossed piece!

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  5. LinNovember 10, 2010 at 2:31 PM

    Beautiful, Heather! Love these soft colors against the white embossed background!

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  6. BarbNovember 10, 2010 at 2:51 PM

    Oh, Heather. . .these are just so beautiful! I absolutely love the way they turned out! Wow!

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  7. Vera Yates (Ling)November 10, 2010 at 3:15 PM

    Heather, both cards are so gorgeous! I really love the watercolor effect on the ornaments. Beautiful!

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  8. AnneNovember 10, 2010 at 4:53 PM

    Your cards are both just beautiful Heather- love the colors with the white snowflake BG and all the sewing you did!

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  9. Tiffany ErvinNovember 10, 2010 at 5:13 PM

    Wow! I really love the soft and delicate colors on the ornaments, great inking technique!

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  10. DeirdreNovember 10, 2010 at 8:01 PM

    Just beautiful Heather, love them both.

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  11. JennyNovember 10, 2010 at 8:33 PM

    soooo pretty Heather, love them!! :) :) :) :) :)

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  12. Linda W. (ScrappinBari)November 11, 2010 at 12:14 AM

    Hi Heather - what gorgeous ornament cards! Especially love the gem ornament hangers on the pink one and the yummy stitching on the blue one!

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  13. DonnaNovember 11, 2010 at 2:54 AM

    Beautiful cards Heather!!!

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  14. Dawn TNovember 11, 2010 at 7:09 AM

    fantastic Heather. I really love how this turned out. I think it is the CB background that drew my attention.

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  15. Suzanne CNovember 12, 2010 at 3:13 AM

    GORGEOUS!!! Love how your ornaments look against the embossed background.

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  16. TrinhNovember 12, 2010 at 4:23 PM

    Both of these are so pretty! Love the ornaments against the embossed snowflake bg!

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