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Today's card is a frosty one which is too funny considering we have a heat warning.
Anyways, I am really pleased to be getting some holiday cards done.
So here's what I did to create my card.
- I began by making the background. I applied a coat of Gesso over my heavy white cardstock and let that dry.
- When it was all dry, I added some Acrylic paint with my brayer and then some Distress inks to give a dark, frosty bkg.
- Before stamping the snowflakes, I cut the panel to card size, leaving me with a piece I could later use for the sentiment.
- I placed the panel into my Misti and stamped the snowflakes from Tim Holtz. They have a great distressed look to them.
- I stamped the scripts from the Faded Text set in some of the open areas to add interest.
- I splattered the panel with my white Posca Pen and set aside to dry.
- Using the small piece I cut from the panel, I stamped the sentiment, also from the snowflake set, with some Versamark and then white heat embossed it.
- I backed the sentiment with a small piece of white, then pop dot mounted it over the frosty panel.
- I added it all to a heavy white card base.
Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.
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Supplies
Stamps- Faded Text (TH); Weathered Winter (TH)
Inks- Versamark, DOX (TH); Archival; Acrylic paint (Dollar Store)
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- Gesso; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Brayer (Speedball);
Posca Pen; pop dots; white eb powder; heat tool; inking tool (Ranger)
12 comments:
Wow!!! Gorgeous Christmas collage design using your gesso, gelli plate, stamped butterflies and sentiments. Love your blue tones and your sentiment stamped on cut off background. A real beauty, my friend. TFS Hugs..Nancy
This design really does have that cold frosty look to it. I love it!
Such gorgeous distressed snowflakes Karen to go with a wonderful bit of distressing and texture with the gesso and then the acrylic paint and distress inks to make that wonderful blue background, and what a great idea to use an offcut of the background to stamp your sentiment on to. x
You are on a roll with these fabulous backgrounds, Karen! This is perfect for snowflakes and a good reminder that the heat will be gone one of these days!
Very nice Karen. I'd like to CASE it
Beautiful card Karen, lovely snowflakes and gorgeous colours, Kate x
Karen, your best background yet. I love that grungy distressed look :)
I am loving the whole distressed look of your fabulous card Karen. Wonderful background and those snowflakes and the oversized sentiment in the middle look absolutely stunning x.
Stunning result Karen, I love the frosty result.
Faith x
What a wonderful frosty look - love it!! I'm going to try your technique for the background. Great layering of the snowflakes and text on top of it!
Stunning card, I adore those icy colours for Christmas!
Thank you for joining us this month at We Love 2 Create With Polkadoodles! Jane (DT) Paper, Pencils & Pretty Things xxx
Very nice design! Nice combination of colors, you achieved a lot of texture and great background!
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