It's A Fair Dinkum Aussie Christmas

Yes, another eucalyptus card ...

remember, I told you that I love this image, this time it's for Christmas.

The Eucalyptus digital stamp is from Beccy's Place.

I opened the image and sentiment in Silhouette Studio, sized the image panel to 4" square, added the sentiment from the Aussie Wreath digital stamp set (also from Beccy's Place), printed on X-Press It blending card, heat set, trimmed to size then coloured with Copic markers.  The marker combinations are listed below and you might be interested in the unusual colours.  Eucalypts have fascinating strappy leaves, fabulous flowers with really cool caps and nuts.  The card base is heavy white cardstock, making a large 6 1/4" card.  I decided to use a sketch for this design (the sketch and link are below).  I cut a 6" square from white cardstock and matted it with red cardstock using my 1/16" Perfect Layers Ruler to make the base for the front of the card.  I matted the image panel the same way.  I die cut a white doily and contrasting 4" red circle, along with a red strip to make up the elements for the sketch.  The white contrasting ric rac was a "happy accident" as I was cutting some Halloween treat boxes last night with my Silhouette Cameo and the ric rac strip was part of the waste left behind.  Today, when assembling the pieces for my card, I thought the red strip looked a little stark and the white ric rac was soon adhered in place.  I used liquid adhesive to secure all the layers in place (details listed below).

At first I thought the image called for a CAS (Clean and Simple) design but the more I look at it, the more I think that this sketch works.  Our Christmas is a true contradiction, hot and summery with the eucalyptus trees in full bloom making real live Christmas Trees, mixed with the traditional fussy and fancy traditional family Christmas lunch, hot, rich with all the trimmings.

When I had finished my card, my husband came inside and handed me some nuts that had fallen from our bottlebrush tree.  He suggested that I should use them instead of sequins as a natural embellishment on my card.

   

What do you think, sequins or natural nuts?

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Here are some other cards made using this beautiful image:
pink and red flowering gums

   

*** INGREDIENTS ***

Beccy's Place - digital stamp - image - Eucalyptus

Beccy's Place - digital stamp - sentiment - Aussie Wreath
X-Press It A4 Blending Card

Copic markers - branches - G21 + R12 + YR23 + E08-57
Copic markers - leaves - G21 + YG63 + G94 + BG96
Copic markers - damage to leaves - YR23 + E08-57 + BG96
Copic markers - red flowers - R14-17-27 + YR23
Copic markers - buds / caps - YG63 + G21 + R12-14
(+ Y11 over top to add a slightly brighter glossy shine)
Pretty Pink Posh - Sparkling Clear Sequins
Stickles - Stardust - to fill the hole in the sequins
Kaisercraft - weave cardstock - Crimson
Sizzix Big Shot
Kaisercraft - decorative die - Doilies
Sizzix - nesting dies - Circles
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the ric rac & sequins

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