Following the Star

Monday greetings, stampers! It’s Tami here today to share a clean & simple Christmas card featuring our Heavens Rejoice stamp set. I started by stamping and white embossing a silhouetted scene, then added some graduated stripes of color and framed it all up with a raised die cut window.

Find out how to make this card — click for complete supplies and instructions.

The striped background that peeks through the die cut frame was created by using the back side of a border stamp from the Calico Borders set. It creates the perfect long, solid rectangle! That’s a tip I picked up here on the Hero blog many years ago and use all the time. It’s fun to see what shapes you can come up with when you look at them backwards. :)  Once the striped background was complete, I misted it with Tattered Angels Pearl Glimmer Mist for some soft sparkle.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Our thoughts are with everyone in Sandy’s path. Please stay safe, friends!

This entry was posted on Monday, October 29th, 2012 at 5:00 am and is filed under Motivation Mondays. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

48 Responses to “Following the Star”

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   Renee VanEpps said: October 30th, 2012 at 5:45 am

   This is soooooooooooooo pretty!!!!!

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   Judy said: October 30th, 2012 at 6:46 am

   I love the background that you created with the back of the stamp, Tami–very clever and effective!

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   NTrapani said: October 30th, 2012 at 7:18 am

   What a great idea~ love the card. The technique adds such a neat look to the card!

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   Pai said: October 30th, 2012 at 7:35 am

   gotta try this

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   Mary Dawn said: October 30th, 2012 at 9:22 am

   eek, TAMI!! brilliant idea…looooove it

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   Sharon D from Canada said: October 30th, 2012 at 5:10 pm

   Clever and very pretty, Tami!

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   Buffe said: November 1st, 2012 at 6:49 am

   I keep forgetting about using the backs of the clear stamps. Thanks for the reminder with your great card!

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   Barbara-Jean said: November 2nd, 2012 at 7:57 am

   I really like the simplicity, beauty and message of this card, Tami. Thank you!

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   Heather Maria said: November 3rd, 2012 at 12:46 am

   This is so pretty, Tami! I love the colours and the silhouette of the wise men looks brilliant against the graduated stripes - love the clever way you created that!

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    Connie Pruitt said: November 13th, 2012 at 6:41 am

    Beautiful card

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