Thursday, December 13, 2012

Celebrating the Greatest Gift of All

Hello! I have to say that I had a blast making this card! Lots of inky fun. :) I stamped and white heat embossed the Nativity scene from the Greatest Gift set by Hero Arts. I masked off the sky and inked the ground with my inking tool using shabby shutters and crushed olive distress inks. Then I masked off the ground and inked the sky using my blending tool. I went from light to dark using tumbled glass, broken china, salty ocean, and chipped sapphire distress inks. And while that was drying, I made the background. I stamped and white heat embossed the Lattice Background by Hero Arts. 
I colored it with my distress markers in tumbled glass, broken china, chipped sapphire, shabby shutters, and crushed olive. And because salty ocean isn't in distress marker form, I painted it on with a brush. Then I spritzed it with a mixture of perfect pearls and water in a mini mister for shine. The sentiment is also from the Greatest Gift set by Hero Arts. EEK! I just love how this one turned out! :)

♥ Nikki ♥


14 comments:

  1. This is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!! I'm serious Tim Holtz needs to be contacting you!!! You got some mad coloring and inking skills!!! Hugs, Leanne

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  2. This is unbelievably gorgeous...love the embossed and coloured background! Lee-Ann :)

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  3. Oh Gosh, Girl! This is stunning! I may need to invest in some of the distress markers. Gorgeous! ~hugs, Saundra

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  4. Nikki, I LoVe, LoVe, LoVe these colors!!! Beautiful job as always.

    Kellie in Alaska
    nicurnkellie@yahoo.com

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  5. This. Is. STUNNING!!! THIS could be my new favorite of yours! Absolutely BREATHTAKING!!

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  6. This is truly beautiful! The colors are perfect - and I just ADORE silhouettes!

    housesbuiltofcards@gmail.com
    www.housesbuiltofcards.blogspot.com

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  7. Gosh NIkki your card is beautiful and you do amazing things with ink wow....I do own the distress markers and it's so much fun seeing what you accomplish with them and I love your silhouette it's so beautiful. Have a happy day!!

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  8. Nice job Nikki, Merry Christmas
    DawnRI

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  9. Very pretty card,scrappinggg.blogspot.com.

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  10. Super AWESOME!!! Love that background!!! Really pretty

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  11. Love your cards, bright and colorful.

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  12. Your card is not simple but so worth the extra work...BEAUTIFUL!!! The sky and embossed scene is perfect. Beautiful job.
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  13. WOW!!! This is gorgeous Nikki! Totally in love with this...amazing!

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  14. Wow!!! This is stunning!! Jennifer mcguires got nothing on you girl! Inky perfection!! TFS!
    Tracy

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