Christmas Card Club - Star of Wonder

This fortnight was Zoe's turn to chose the theme for our Christmas Card Club. She chose Star of Wonder. I think this is such a great theme. To see the other submissions from my fellow CCC members, you can click on any of their names on my right sidebar. If you are interested in joining a fun club with a lovely group of ladies, let me know.

Today's card started off as a rusty orange prefolded square card that was not too bad of a weight.  As soon as I spied the rich colour, I decided to make another glittered hill Nativity Card.  I really was not happy with the one I created on this post here and decided to try to improve on that design..

I really liked the idea of musical note DP last time, and luckily had a snippet of an orangy coloured 12x12 DP left over from a scrapbook page. It was almost large enough to make the background mat for this card.. I managed to cover up the shortfall by placing one  American Crafts Marquee Glittered Love diecut hill over the bottom of it. I cut a second hill out of kraft and promptly used it to shadow the glittered hill.

Stamped the image onto white Copic paper and used Stampin' Up chalks to create the sky and the sand dunes.  Using the base card colour to inspire me, I used Twinkling H2O's to colour the village and the large palm tree . I used the stardust stickles on the stars but used a fine tipped steel to place the stickles dots. No blobby bits this time!

I  used many different colours of ink to stamp this image and then huffed on the stamp before laying it on the paper. I used Black for the Wise Men and North star, beige for the teensy stars, and brown for the hills and village. I even coloured the tree trunk brown and the leaves in green. Have not used the huff technique for many years so it took a couple tries to get it right.

Matted the image and sentiment with kraft. added a blingy star and called it done. I like this one so much more than the  one I created the other day.

This was such a hard photo to take. The glare off the glittered card was so strong...it seems to make the three wise men look so pale. IRL they show as black ink...not faded looking like they show here!

Recipe
Prefolded 5 1/2 inch orange card and envelope
DP - from my 12x12 scrapbooking snippets box
Glitter paper - Heidi /swap American crafts Marquee Love gold glitter paper
Card stock - snippets of kraft card
Stamp Sentiment - Hobby Arts Wise Men
Stamp image-  Stampendous Travelling Far
Ink - Ingrid Bolme chalk ink
Colouring - H2O's and Stampin' Up chalks


I am adding this card to the following challenges:
1. Christmas Card Club - Star of Wonder
2. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets.