This is the Christmas card that I made
for my boss. I work for a company called NCF Furnishings and I had the idea of using our
company logo as a gift underneath a tree. The logo has been recycled from our
company jotter pads. I had it in my purse for a couple of weeks before I got
round to making the card so I am amazed it didn’t get crinkled up….
I used an embossing folder which was a
new purchase from Crafter’s Companion, embossed onto white card and then used a
gold rub on to add the colour. I then added a red gem brad at the top of the
tree and sewed on some red bells. The image was then mounted onto gold card and
mounted onto a red linen cardstock base. The finishing touches are a gold bow
from my stash and a glitter peel off sticker.
The boss said it was very creative, truly personalised and
absolutely loved it.
Materials Used in this
Project are as follows:-
Card size – A6
Tools – Darice Embossing
Folder ‘Christmas Tree’ Wax Rub on
Embellishments – Jingles bells, American
Crafts Gem Brad, ribbon bow, Docrafts/Papermania Glitter peel off
Techniques – Embossing and recycling
I would like to enter this
card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-
- A Creative Romance – Something New (embossing folder)
- A Gem of A Challenge - #110 Something New (Embossing Folder)
- Allsorts - #240 Free & Easy
- Anonymous Stamps – Anything Goes
- Artistic Inspirations – #72 Anything Goes
- Card Makin’ Mamas – #78 Anything Goes
- Cards Galore Encore – #1 Anything Goes
- Challenges 4 Everybody – #37 Anything Goes
- Christmas Card Challenge - #6 No Colouring
- Christmas Cards All Year Round – Anything Christmas Goes
- Come & Get It Challenge – Something New (embossing Folder)
- C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #240 Anything Goes
- Crafting Café – Anything Goes
- Crafting From The Heart - # 3 Anything Goes
- Craftitude - #55 Anything Goes
- Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge - #158 Upcyle/repurpose/use a freebie (NCF logo is from a deskpad at work)
- Crafty Hazelnut’s Monthly Christmas Challenge – Anything Goes
- Craftyhands - #5 Anything Goes
- Creative Card Crew - #52 Anything Goes
- Creative Craft Challenge – #26 Anything Goes
- Delicious Doodles - #69 Layer It Up
- Glitter & Sparkle - #66 Anything Goes
- Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Something new (embossing folder)
- Great Impressions Stamps – Use Something new (Embossing folder)
- Heck of A Challenge – New (new embossing folder)
- Hobbycutz Challenge – #30 Anything Goes
- Jingle Belles – Something old (bells) & Something new (embossing folder)
- Just Because Linky Party – Anything Goes
- LEJ Designs - #84 Anything Goes
- Melonheadz Friends – Anything Goes
- Mema’s Crafts – Bingo (ribbon, dry embossing, brad, free)
- Seemacrafts – Anything Goes
- Simply Create Too - #52 Anything Goes
- Stamping With The Dragon – Last Minute Christmas
- The Squirrel & the Fox – #60 Anything Goes
- Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
- Top Tip Tuesday - #116 Christmas
Oh how sparkly and beautiful. Gorgeous tree!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for participating in the MelonHeadz Friends Challenge!
It is very creative and I can understand why they loved it. I need to get some of these rub on waxes, one more thing to add to the list :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a gorgeous Christmas card. I love the embossed christmas tree in gold. It is beautiful. Thanks for playing at Top Tip Tuesday and good luck. Hope to see you back tuesday for a new challenge. Bettina DT Member at Top Tip Tuesday xx
ReplyDeleteHi Mandy
ReplyDeleteFabulous card... Love the tree....
Hugs Sylvie xxx
Lovely card, thank you for joining us at CRAFT Challenge and Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteJo
So very lovely! Really elegant design. Thanks for playing along with the current CraftyHands challenge. Sammy-x
ReplyDeletethis is beautiful. thank you for joining us at The Crafting Cafe Challenge. Marlene DT
ReplyDeleteWonderful Card! Fantastic Detail! Thank you for sharing with us at Crafting Café. Amy A.,DT
ReplyDeleteHi, Mandy: just love your embossed Christmas card. Thanks for entering our Challenge #52 - "Anything Goes"
ReplyDeleteDiane
Simply Create Too Design Team Member
http://DianesDigitalDesigns.blogspot.com
Lovely card, thanks for joining in at Allsorts this week. xxx
ReplyDeleteVery pretty Christmas card. I like the way you colored your embossed image it really made it pop.
ReplyDeleteMary Anne, Great Impressions DT
What a fun way to recycle ... love that gold rub-on ... so elegant ... so glad you joined us for an old & new start to 2014 at Jingle Belles.
ReplyDeleteSuper fabulous idea to recycle and personalize your boss' card! LOVE the fabulous gold tree you created! Thanks for joining us at Great Impressions! Hope you join us again SOON! :) Mynn xx
ReplyDeleteThanks for entering both of my CHNC challenges and CCAYR January with your lovely card - hope to see you again soon. x
ReplyDeleteFantastic use of the company logo. I'm sure your boss loved this beautiful card!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing this week at CAGI. We hope to see you back very soon!
hugs--
Roberta
Come and Get It Design Team
Queen Bee Paper Crafts
what a lovely holiday card, and HOW COOL that you managed to work your company's logo in as a present, that is BRILLIANT! thanks for joining our "old and new" fun at JINGLE BELLES! :)
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely holiday card, and HOW COOL that you managed to work your company's logo in as a present, that is BRILLIANT! thanks for joining our "old and new" fun at JINGLE BELLES! :)
ReplyDeletebeautiful card. I like the embossed and gilded part of the tree.
ReplyDeleteThank you for participating in the Creative Card Crew challenge. Adriana DT
Hello Mandy, what a fab card, it's a gorgeous sparkly image and what a great idea to add your company logo, I hope your boss gave you a rise in salary. Thank you for joining in at CCAYR and goodluck with the challeng, Kate x
ReplyDeleteWhat a great card Mandy! I bet your boss was chuffed to pieces with it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for playing in the Anything Goes Challenge at The Crafting Cafè this month!
Good Luck
Hugs
Dawn xx
lovely card,thank you for joining in on Seemacrafts first challenge for 2014
ReplyDeleteAwesome card, thanks for sharing with us at Simply Create Too.
ReplyDeleteHugz Marjo
very elegant. thanks for joining us on CraftyHands
ReplyDeleteJust Gorgeous, and I love how you worked in the Logo! Thanks so much for joining us this week at Come and Get It!
ReplyDeleteJulie
Beautiful card, that's a lovely embossing folder. Love the gold rub on it too, looks very elegant. Thank you for joining us at the Cards Galore Encore Anything Goes Challenge #1 and Good Luck! xx
ReplyDeleteWho knew that recycling could be so beautiful. Thanks for taking time to play with us at Mema's Crafts. We hope to see you again in all our challenges.
ReplyDeleteHugs ~Lesia
great idea guessed your boss loved it
ReplyDeletethank you for joining seemacrafts challenge
Jakki (craftyjak) x
Wow, cool effect with your embossing! Thanks for linking up with Christmas Card Challenges! Karen N (DT)
ReplyDeleteGreat idea to personalize the card Mandy. Love how you used the rub-on to accentuate the embossing. Thanks for sharing your card at CHNC Extra for January.
ReplyDeleteA fabulous card. Thank you for joining us at AGOAC. x
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining is with the CraftyHands Challenge, this is really lovely.
ReplyDeleteWell done Becka B DT member x
Lovely card ,Thanks for joining our first challenge of the year for anything goes at Seemacrafts challenge blog, Love Pauline, DT Member xx
ReplyDeleteThis is very pretty.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at CMM.
This is so pretty! Thanks for playing at Challenges 4 Everybody. We hope to see you next time. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteLovely card, very creative. Thank you for joining us over at Seemacrafts. Karen DT member
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful, really creative and perfect for a work card. It looks so festive x Thankyou for joining us over at The Crafting Cafe for last months challenge. I hope we see you again soon x
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