Louisiana carnival season has begun! January 6 is called Epiphany or Twelfth Night (since it's twelve days after Christmas) or Kings Day (hence the King Cake tie-in?). It marks the moment in the Bible that the three kings arrived in Bethlehem to behold the baby Jesus. Traditionally, Epiphany is considered the last day of the Christmas holidays. You can now say "Happy Mardi Gras!", wear purple, green and gold, buy and eat king cake and take down your Christmas decorations! I plan on doing it tomorrow...ugh!
In the meantime, I made a festive card to celebrate! I used the JFFRS Stamptangle Celestial Montage stamp image. This image kind of reminds me of some of my Mardi Gras decorations...
The image was stamped with Versamark ink and embossed with Ranger Ink Silver
Super Fine embossing powder. The image was painted with a mixture of Perfect Pearls True Gold and True Red pigment powder and water. The background paper is Club Scrap® cardstock and embellished with metallic dot stickers from the CS Color Me Happy embellishment pack .
I'm off to get motivated to take down Christmas and put out the Mardi Gras bling. Hmmmm, I might need a little king cake and coffee first!
There's still time to join the JFFRS "Anything Goes" January Challenge for a chance to win a gift certificate to the JFFRS online store! Details here! AND there's a 40% off sale through January 15...
Do more of what makes you happy!
Challenges entered:
PDE Linky Party #154 "Anything Goes"
Crazy For Challenges #357
Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog Something New
Fabulous, Wendy! Love all the metallics!
ReplyDeleteI love all the detail of the image and how you have coloured it. Happy Mardi Gras!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I LOVE that stamp image!
ReplyDeleteIt is just a wonderful creation!
ReplyDeleteWOW!!! What a gorgeous card!!! It's perfect!!
ReplyDeleteWow that's stunning!
ReplyDeleteGreat card! I didn't know that Carnival started now - I though it was only a couple of days before Lent started. Enjoy the celebration!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteOh yes! Begins on Jan.6 and ends on Ash Wednesday. When we lived in New Orleans we were partied out by then!😂
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing your creative project in the Sweet Stampin' Challenge!
ReplyDeleteAwesome stamping! Thanks for joining in the fun with the Sweet Stampin' Challenge this week. I'm so glad you did! Hugs, Wends xoxo SSDT
ReplyDeleteThanks Wendy!
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