Joyous Holiday

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I am playing with this great Big Snowflake stencil and doing an embossed resist technique.

I really like the look it gives and this stencil is one of my favourites.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began with a piece of white cardstock, placed it into my Misti and stamped the Snowflake Outline from Simon Says with some Versamark and white heat embossed it.
• I laid the Big Snowflake Stencil from ACLD over the embossed background, centering it on the panel.
• I began at the center and blended on some Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink, then some Wilted Violet and finally Blueprint Sketch along the outside edges.
• Using a dry cloth, I carefully wiped over the panel to remove any of the ink that was on top of the embossing and to make the snowflake pop.
• I decided to create an 'eclipse' sentiment, so I positioned the 'merry' sentiment over the background and cut it out as you can see from the picture below. 

• I wanted to add a shadow background to help make the sentiment more visible, so I traced around the die with a pencil and fussy cut it out.

• I glued the die cut to the white fussy cut one I had done and set aside.
• I glued the inked panel onto a piece of dark purple cardstock, then onto a white card base.
• I pop dotted the sentiment back into place over the panel, matching it up in the cut away area.
• I stamped the strip sentiment onto a piece of navy cardstock with Versamark ink and then white heat embossed it.
• I glued the strip under the die cut 'merry'.

Here is the stencil I used:

Big Snowflake

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Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies 

Stamps- Snowflake Outline (SSS), Taylored Expressions-Simple Strips Christmas

Inks- Versamark, Distress Oxides (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencil (ACLD); Lawn Fawn white eb powder; Misti (My Sweet Petunia);

Christmas Words die (Cartabella)