Distress Oxide Christmas Card

 

Good Morning Ladies, 

Thanks for your lovely supportive comments yesterday,  sadly the Parchment on the card buckled really badly overnight so it will be binned,  I will keep all of the other layers,  just redo the Groovi piece. 

As you can imagine the upset with my brother set my AF into an Episode that lasted all night,  it was 5.30 before I even felt like I could nod off, I have been having another symptom lately too  once I have been in bed about an hour or so my whole body starts itching and I mean every part from my toes to my nose, when i got ready for a shower yesterday I noticed terrible scratch marks everywhere where I have been subconsciously scratching.   Now I put it down to being a symptom of my AF but apparently not, it is however a symptom of Liver issues, thinking bsck to late July/early August, my ultrasound had shown signs of liver disease, she was organising an appointment with the Consultant Heptolagist, she had told me to go and enjoy my holiday before looking into getting my liver diagnosis.   I guess she may have forgotten!  Our surgery is currently running on a very skeleton staff as half of them have been in contact with Covid, doctor's included, so they are only dealing with urgent cases.  

As a result of my rough night, I didn't manage to get up and and showered until after lunch as I had in effect run at least one reason marathon (with my heart racing like crazy!  So I didn't think I would have the inspiration to create anything,  I went and sat at my set desk and decided to have a play with my Distress Oxides,  I wanted to use the new green colour called Rusctic Wilderness, its a lovely shade of green. 

For this card I smooched the following Distress Inks/Oxides into my may and spritzed it with water,  I used both colours Oxides and regular distress inks together .  I used a fan brush to pick up the ink and 'tapped' the paintbrush which sent lots of tiny spots of ink all over,  I dried the piece between colours....

These are the colours I used addingvthe original distress inks gives a brighter pop of colour,  to add some gold dots I used my Gold Posca pen and tapped it until it sent the gold speckles all over my piece. 

To finish the card I stamped one of the sentiments from my Elizabeth Designs script greetings  and tied a bright red ribbon and tied a bow in a lovely bright red bow, to which I added some red jingle bells. I was quite pleased with results as I had no inspiration to create a card at all when I entered my craft room! 

I hope that you are all well, 

Love and hugs to all    ,

Sandra                                                                            xxxxxx