Vintage Hungarian Christmas cards #96

This vintage postcard is just gorgeous, isn't it? It's filled with beautiful bold colours.

This card was posted in 1913.

You can find my other vintage Christmas cards, just click on the label - old Christmas cards - on the sidebar.

Vintage Hungarian Christmas cards #84

I think this card was part of a Christmas card block which was filled with the illustrations of Lajos Márton. In an auction, I could buy this one and I'm so happy with it because I love the Christmas scenes with the three wise men.

This card was made and posted in 1935.

If you would like to see my other vintage Christmas postcards, please click on the 'old Christmas cards' label on the sidebar.

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Christmas card with the three kings - vintage version

Recently I have shown you two cards with the Wise Men Thinlits die here, on my blog - a blue and a pink version. So it was time to make a vintage look version with the same scene.

For this scene I used three different Thinlits die sets: Wise Men, Home For The Holiday, Witchcraft.

From a white 300gsm watercolour paper I cut out a rectangle base and the other elements, the sand dunes and the stars.

Then with tapping movements (this is my favourite technique to add paint to the surface) and with a sponge, I covered the whole surface with white acrylic paint.

With the Antique Linen and Gathered Twigs Distress inks, Walnut Stain Distress Crayons and Matte Distress Collage Medium, I created a vintage look.

I cut out the wise men from one of the brown papers of the Kraft Core Classic Collection and slightly sanded it. Then with Multi Medium Matte, I attached the wise men to the bottom.

I cut out a little bigger rectangle from brown paper as a second layer and inked the edges with Walnut Stain to make it darker.

And I cut out a folded card from kraft paper and chose a text from my favourite sticker book.

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Christmas card with the three kings

You might have seen my card with the same scene but with blue and silver colours. If not, you can see it here.

And now here is my other version with a pinkish-gold night sky.

The technique was the same that I used yesterday. I took a light pink cardstock and I started to add Distress colours, first the lighter, then the darker colours.

In order here is the list of the inks I used: Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, Wilted Violet, Chipped Saphire, Black Soot.

At this card, after the golden spatters I added some extra stars to the sky and I left out the text because there's no need for text on this beautiful scene.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Wise Men by Tim Holtz (663127)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Swirling Stars by Tim Holtz (663095)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Witchcraft by Tim Holtz (662386)

Gold glitter paper

Ranger Distress ink pads

Black cardstock

Gold acrylic paint

etc.

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With my card, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: All that glitter is gold

Christmas card with the three wise men

This by the light

Of the same star

Three wise men came

From the country far

To seek for a King

Was their intent

And to follow the star

Wherever it went

Well, this song was in my mind with Bing Crosby's voice when I was making the following card.

When I first saw the Wise Men Thinlits die, I knew that I wanted it and I knew exactly that I wanted to use it with the Swirling Stars (from the Halloween release) and not with the Snowy Stars (from the Christmas release).

First of all, I cut out the wise men from black cardstock, then I chose one from the Sizzix Rectangle Framelits die set which has the perfect size.

Then I positioned the wise men to see where I could cut the stars. When I found the best place I cut out the stars.

After this, I started to blend different blue inks and a little black from the edge to the middle. I used Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky, Faded Jeans, Chipped Saphire and Black Soot.

These photos were taken in the evening with another camera this is why you can see a difference between the colours of the final and the process photos.

When I was satisfied with the colours I spattered the background with Brushed Pewter Distress Spray Stain.

Then I attached the wise men to the bottom.

I placed and attached my card to a little bit bigger glitter paper (Deco Sheets) and then to a little bigger black card.

With the glitter paper behind the scene, my stars can sparkle.

And the perfect text is from the unfortunately retired Small Talk sticker book (Occasions).

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