Abstract Snowflake

Welcome!

Meet today's card.

I thought having this time off was a good chance to get started on creating some Christmas cards.  

But I'm just having a bit of trouble getting into that mind set since Spring has just arrived and we finally have some warm temperatures.

As I have mentioned in some of my previous posts, being off work has given me time to play more with my supplies.  I've been making some backgrounds with my Geli Plate.  When using a Gel Plate, you need to brayer off some of the excess paint to give a thin layer.  I always like to keep some extra pieces of cardstock nearby to roll off my brayer and this bkg. is one of those.  It is messy but still interesting with all the different colours of paint brayered onto it and I thought it would make a good back drop for my snowflake.

So, I placed the painted background into my Misti, inked up the snowflake from the Colorado Stamp Company with some Versamark ink, stamped and white heat embossed.  I repositioned my background in my Misti and stamped it again just moving my panel over a bit, with some blue Distress ink.  It created a shadow effect that I love.

As the white embossing will create a resist, I used a dry cloth to wipe away the excess DI over the snowflake.  

I stamped the sentiment using my Misti with some black ink and clear heat embossed it.

Lastly, I splattered using my white paint.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Hope you are all safe and well.

Supplies

Stamps- Warm Wishes Snowflake (Colorado Stamp)

Inks- Versamark; Versafine Clair; Mermaid Lagoon DI 

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); brayer, acrylic paint; white eb powder;