12 Days of Christmas Swap

I prepared for this swap last year by biying all my toppers in advance ...... took some time to find them but I managed.

I thought that I would use the gelli plate again for the backgrounds so today I settled down with paints, mark makers, card and gelli plate.

I sorted out all my Christmas words stamps ready to go, deciding to add some of the clear ones to one acrylic block.  
I used the brayer to apply two shades of red and green paints to the gelli, printing off one sheet.
I added a tiny bit more paint and printed off again.  I thought these were a bit brighter than I wanted so I brayered some paint on again and used a mark maker to draw a pattern before printing. 
I then used a brush to brush out two of the colours on a separate sheet of paper.  
I decided to spritz some gold and silver onto the surfaces, even using a distress ink on one of them.
Thinking that the black ink maybe too dark, I used gold embossing powder on one corner of the paper.  Feeling very pleased with the outcome I then used some silver embossing powder, in another area I used a 'black with green' powder and finished up with a 'black with some glitter' powder.  
I wish I knew the makes of these powders as they are soooo good .... I bought them back in the 90s when I first started making cards.  Back then the powders were in packets and one had to transfer them into small pots .... in my case tiny jam pots!! The jars are labelled only with the colours.

Now I have one completed background, let's hope I can complete the other sheets and send out my cards.