Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Christmas labels distressed rustic Christmas card

I'm continuing to make my Christmas cards and thought I'd share a tip for distressing embossed cardstock today.

Here's the card which features the Christmas Labels bundle, Painted Trees 3D embossing folder, Winter Meadows designer series paper and the two-tone Garden Green cardstock from the Reindeer Memories multi colour two-tone cardstock pack. 

TIP: The two-tone cardstock has a light and dark side of the Garden Green colour and also a white core. This makes it easy to distress & reveal the white core by using a piece of sandpaper or an emery board. By lightly rubbing the sandpaper over the raised edges of the Painted Trees 3D embossed cardstock, it revealed the white core which looks like 'snow' on the trees.  

Another way to distress embossed cardstock is to swipe an inkpad over the raised sections of the embossed cardstock to get contrasting colours on the embossed image.

You may remember this tip from my last post where I showed how to save the excess diecut pieces from the largest Christmas Labels as they are cute little flourishes. 

Here's how I used the little flourish pieces on this card's sentiment label. I tucked them around the Christmas label to add a finishing touch. 

I also flicked ink mixed with a little water onto the card to add a further distressing element to the card.

I hope you like this project. If you live in Australia, you can view and purchase Stampin' Up! products directly from my online store.

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