Greetings!  Today I have a Christmas card for you.  It features a recessed panel and starry sky to accommodate Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus.  The inspiration for the recessed panel came from Handcrafted by Helen on YouTube.  Links to the products I used are below.  Hope you like it :0)

I used a text background stamp by Stampendous with gift tissue paper to create the background, which is also the recessed panel (because it’s behind the blue panels that create the frame).  A little Golden matte medium to adhere the tissue paper to some tan cardstock, and then some Ranger Archival ink to stamp the image and I was ready to color it with Faber-Castel PITT artist brush pens (really more like markers).  The Hero Arts sentiment was heat embossed with Wow embossing powder.  I used some peel off stickers from the Paper Studio to line the edge of the blue starry sky panels.  The star is also a peel off sticker that I put on some cardstock and then colored it in with a Uniball Signo silver gel pen, which I also used to add some light rays coming from the star and to color Mary and Joseph’s headbands.  Happy early Merry Christmas!  Enjoy the YouTube video below.

The products I used on this card:

Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock: http://amzn.to/2yL4AYT

Cardstock 65lb: http://amzn.to/2xkB0Za

Ranger Distress Ink Salty Ocean: http://amzn.to/2xkxAFy

Ranger Distress ink Stormy Sky: http://amzn.to/2xleyUA

Ranger Distress Ink Dusty Concord: http://amzn.to/2z0ZBUN

Ranger Archival Ink: http://amzn.to/2xXm5Ga

Pearlescent Watercolor:  http://amzn.to/2z1hMJY

Golden Matte Medium: http://amzn.to/2y2VgC9

Paint Brush(I found these awesome paint brushes for gesso or matte medium): http://amzn.to/2y3A2Er

Uniball Signo Silver Gelpen(includes white and gold): http://amzn.to/2y4dOST

Paper Studio Silver Classic Border Stickers: goo.gl/jMNZLA

Hero Arts Celebrate Everday Sentiment Stampes CL498: http://amzn.to/2fVw7TJ

Stampendous Dream Text Background Stamp:  goo.gl/57yF7a

Oriental Trading Nativity Stamp:  Unavailable

Alternative Nativity Stamp by Stampendous:  http://amzn.to/2ythnDd

Foam Sponge Daubers (with case and ink pads!): http://amzn.to/2xkDpml

Foam Tape: http://amzn.to/2y35zpM

Wow Embossing Powder: http://amzn.to/2xkUzAx

Darice Heat Gun: http://amzn.to/2fUrx89

Anti-Static Tool: http://amzn.to/2y2T1yN

Gift Tissue Paper:  http://amzn.to/2fUDQBk

WRMK Quickstick: http://amzn.to/2xl4jL1

WRMK Precision Press Stamping Tool: http://amzn.to/2xWWvkp

Faber-Castel PITT Artist Pens: http://amzn.to/2ggqH2k