Hot Mess Success #5 ~ Magic of the season!

Hi friends and YES!
It's Monday!

But only 8 more days until Christmas!

I'm super excited this year for many reasons,

including having a 1 year old granddaughter, Alice, who is loving it all!

And I love that every time I go into my formal living room,

it is transformed into a Christmas cabin and it makes my heart smile ♥

 

Today I'm sharing with you the 5th card in the Hot Mess Success card group ~

usually posted on the 12th of every month.

This is a challenge where we make MESSY cards ~

any technique that requires a messier product like watercolors,

paint splatters, alcohol inks, etc!

This month, I'm the hostess and in the spirit of the holidays,

I chose a theme of use some sparkle, silver or gold, or glitter.

I chose gold. 

I used gold foil DCWV background cardstock

and Gina K. Designs gold foil in my alcohol inks Christmas trees.

Now .... my card.

I have to say, I do love it - it came out just as I hoped,

but ....

how on earth do you photograph gold foil?!

I tried and tried and tried and tried 

to get a great picture of it but it's a process! :)

I started with a base of Yupo paper and used a variety of Tim Holtz Ranger Ink

alcohol inks and let them do their magic!

Right before it was completely dry, I added the gold foil and pulled it up

for a random look.
Once it was dry, I ran the tree die through my Gemini Jr and
glued it to the gold cardstock - painstakingly slow but worth it!
The I stamped out the sentiment and popped it onto the card front.

It's funny (now) - I threw a few of these away 

before I realized I had the gold foil UPSIDE DOWN 

*grin!*

You can see Barb's card here,

Jeanette's card here,

and Terry's card here!

 It's interesting how this Hot Mess Success challenge group

is really showing me what techniques I like,

and the ones that I don't :)

This was a success, I'd say ~

and I'd definitely use this technique again.

Thanks for stopping by today!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly