Red and gold metallic Season's Greetings card

I took red metallic cardstock from Michael's and embossed it with the Sizzix Tim Holtz Botanical embossing folder. This is a gorgeous folder that gives a pronounced image. I then took a gold ink pad and ran it over the raised parts. I didn't think of doing this until I started playing with some gold die cuts, it really made the image pop.

Here is what the cardstock looked like before running the gold ink over it. It is also very pretty, here with a silver sentiment.

Red metallic cardstock from Recollections at Michael's. Gold Pigment ink by Color Box. Season's Greetings sentiment die by Pinkfresh Studio. Gold metallic paper from Recollections.

Cathedral Arch

I bought the Tim Holtz Etcetera Cathedral Windows, the Idea-ology Christmas word bands, the resin Santa and decorative deer, with no real plan. I also bought this $1 frame, it's really just a piece of wood with a bottom. I was originally thinking about putting a Christmas cookie recipe on it and decorating it but the bottom of the frame was perfect as a ledge.

I first painted the Cathedral window brown and decided to use some scraps of alcohol ink on yupo I had left over but it looked too dark. So I took some white and grey acrylic pant and just quickly painted over the brown. It gave it a rustic, shabby chic look.

Here's the brown window with the snowman and 2 trees. I'm saving the snowman for another project..

I painted the resin Santa with a small brush and acrylic paint. I wiped a little brown alcohol ink over his face to hightlight his features. I saw this idea on stickydots blog. I used white acrylic paint to hightlight the peace on earth wordbank and aged it with some patina paints. The trees I bought as is at Michaels but I cut off the back of the tree so it would sit better. Everything is glued in place with Collage Medium including a little glitter on the ground. That's about it, maybe it needs the little tree?