Greetings

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Hope you are not totally sick of my posting another Christmas card!!

With me getting back to work and having little to no time to stamp, I'm glad I had some time to get ahead of the game during the lockdown and get some cards made.  

I always have a hard time trying to give my cards a name.  I think I should have called this one the power of inking, DOX inks and adding water.  The results you can achieve with water lifting are truly amazing when using these inks on a simple piece of cardstock.  

I've been watching a lot of Vicki Boutin's FB lives and she's such an inspiration.  She loves playing with all the 'stuff' as she calls it.  I love that she's a Canadian too!  She's been doing lots of inking and blending so if that's something you like to do, go check out her videos.

So onto my card details.

• I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock cut into a panel.  I like to cut them 3 3/4 x 5".
• Using my Tim Holtz inking tool, I rubbed on Broken China, Speckled Egg, Blueprint Sketch and some Salty Ocean onto the panel, blending as I went along.
• When I was happy with the inking and the whole piece was inked, I started to water mark.  I lifted some ink using water through the Tim Holtz Mosaic layering stencil, splattered with water and dried.  I also picked some colour up by spraying a script from the Faded Text stamps by TH and stamping it over the inky background. You can continue to layer and lift colour by drying each layer before adding more ink and water. 
• When I was happy with the look, I placed the dry panel into my Misti and stamped the large snowflake down in the corner with some Versamark ink and then white heat embossed it.  *Be sure your panel is totally dry and rub with an anti-static bag before embossing or the powder will stick to anywhere wet and you won't get a crisp image.
• While that cooled, I stamped the sentiment with some more Blueprint Sketch and clear heat embossed it.  
• I splattered my panel with white paint using my Posca Pen.  I just tap it over my project with a heavy duty metal ruler to deposit the paint.  
• I pop dotted the sentiment over the snowflake.
• I mounted the piece onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Stinkin Inkers- MONOCHROME
Allsorts- GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES

Christmas Card Throwdown- MAKING SHADOWS

Supplies

Stamps- Greetings (Paper Smooches); Faded Text (TH); Warm Wishes Snowflake (Colorado Stamp)
Inks- DOX (TH); Versamark
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- white EB powder; heat tool; pop dots; inking tool (TH); Posca Pen; 
stencil (TH)