Christmas Plaque

I bought a painted plaque for next to nothing in a sale and up cycled it.

I began by giving the plaque a couple of coats of gesso to cover up the original design, and covered the front with a paper printed from a CD-Rom from Tattered Lace.  I cut the Winter Wishes, by Tattered Lace, from gold and red and offset them so that the gold gives a shadow effect.  The poinsettias and the ivy are cut from Britannia dies.