This year’s Christmas design is a haloed crown. Perhaps I should also have worked a cross in there or embossed it in red and then I would have hit all three points of the way the carol We Three Kings describes Jesus: King and God and Sacrifice.

Although this is just an image made of pixels, there were several physical steps between the basic design (on computer) and scanning it back in. I used my Japanese woodblock carving tools to work it onto a scrap of plywood. Covered with Pritt Stick, I transferred the design to card and covered it with embossing powder. Finally, I used a heat gun to melt the powder and create the metallic effect.

In other words, quite a lot of work but so many creative things often are. Happy Christmas one and all!