"Winter Cardinal" Rocky Mountain Christmas Luminary Card by Leigh

Happy New Year Creative Friends

 

  

Winter Cardinal

Rocky Mountain Christmas

Luminary Card by Leigh

 

In celebration of Winter and the New Year I've got a fabulous luminary card to share today featuring the elegant Winter Cardinal and magical Sunlight Through the Pines from my new "Rocky Mountain Christmas" collection.

 

Top photo the light is on, photo above the light is off

  

 

Beautiful by day, magical by night when the card glows prettily in the evenings!

 

 

 

I coloured the Winter Cardinal digitally in Adobe Fresco, printed it out then fussy cut it out leaving a narrow white border around the image.

 

 

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I painted all the pine sprigs and the Cardinal with Spectrum Noir clear sparkle paint and applied Crystal Stickles glitter to the all the pine cones for lots of pretty sparkle.

 

 

To make the luminary card I first made a 5 x 7 inch top fold card from heavy weight white cardstock.  Then embossed the red cardstock mat layer with Crafter's Companion's Pretty Poinsettia 3D embossing folder.  To give the background layer a nice rustic organic look to go with my nature theme I distressed the edges with the Tim Holtz distress tool then applied Spectrum Noir metallic gold pigment ink directly to the distressed edges for a touch of elegant metallic gold shimmer then adhered the layer to the card with wet glue.

 

  

To make the luminary frame I used the large Poinsettia Mini Background frame die by Creative Expressions and die cut it out of Crafter's Companion's heavy weight Gold Glitter card.  To give the luminary some nice depth and to also accommodate the wire dew drop lights I applied 1/8" inch high white foam tape strips to the back of the frame.  Before removing the foam tape backing I determined the frame and light placement and punched a hole through the red background and the white card with a Tim Holtz pick.  For this card I only needed 2 dew drop light bulbs closest to the battery box and cut off the rest.  I then threaded the lights through the hole from the inside of the card, secured the wire in place with tape and then adhered the die cut frame to the card front.

 

 

I decorated the inside of the card with another gold glitter die cut frame and tucked in a portion of the fussy cut "Sunlight Through the Pines" pine cone sprig behind the top left corner.  For even more pretty sparkle I also added Crystal Stickles glitter to the pine cones.

 

 

 

I used Scrapbook.com's "Happy New Year" die for the inside of the card which I die cut twice from the same red cardstock to make a nice chunky sentiment and added magical shimmer with the Spectrum Noir clear sparkle paint pen.

 

 

 Here you can see I attached the battery light switch to the back of the card front on the inside of the card.  I used tape to wrap the wire around the side of the battery box and adhered it to the card with glue dots.

  

 

I then completed my luminary card by adhering the Winter Cardinal to the card front with low profile foam tape squares for even more fun dimension.

   

 

Also check out the beautiful luminary card I made HERE featuring Sunlight Through the Pines and Aspenglow digi stamps from my new "Rocky Mountain Christmas" collection as well as Pastel Blizzard decorative paper from the Poinsettia and Holly Christmas 2023 Collection.

 

 

 

I used the light to achieve the "aspenglow" effect on the Rocky Mountains and shine prettily through the pines.

 

 

 

 Come play in our January Challenge with your Winter themed or Anything Goes makes through January 30 at 11:55pm pacific time!

 

 

 

Happy Creating!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN