A Christmas card

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is having a Holidays Handmade week this week, loaded with all sorts of projects for the holidays.

As some of you may know I'm not really a fan of Christmas...I'm more into 'Sinterklaas'...(The dutch readers will know what I mean. For my international readers: 'Sinterklaas' looks a little bit like Santa and is also giving away presents, only in the beginning of December. He rides a white horse and has a lot of helpers, his so called Black Knights. It's a typical dutch and belgian tradition.)
Anyway, I may not be looking forward to Christmas like the rest of the world, I like all things crafty! On the first day of Holidays Handmade (with four tutorials!!!!) I was inspired by the first one: the altered frame.
Only I didn't have a frame-to-be-altered in my supplies....
So I decided to use this technique on some chipboard stars:

I attached the three stars on top of eachother: 

Added the glue to create some texture. (I love this technique because I don't own an embossing machine!)

After the layers of gesso, gold and black acrylic paint I had my altered star. (Sorry, no picture..)
I decided to create a Christmas card with it:

I'm 100% satisfied about how the star turned out. Since I'm not a cardmaker I'm not completely satisfied about the card itself. But I loved using this technique!

Today is day two of Holidays Handmade...I can't wait!

TFL!

Sandra