Ornate Snowflake

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I so appreciate that you dropped in for a visit.

Meet today's card.

Very simple to do with lovely results.  

I love to stencil and I find that using this technique just puts the look to the next level by adding a lot of interest...plus you can make use of more of your supplies.

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

• I cut my card front panel from a piece of white cardstock.  I placed it into my Misti and stamped  the Snowy Afternoon background stamp from Studio Light with some Versamark, then white heat embossed it.  It has a wonderful design with different fonts and winter words going in different directions.  
• I took the Elegant Snowflake stencil and positioned it over the script.  Starting at the center of the stencil, I rubbed on some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink.  Next I rubbed on some Salvaged Patina and finally Prize Ribbon DOX ink along the outer edges. 
• When I was happy with the inking, I removed the stencil and gently rubbed with a cloth to remove the ink from the white embossing to reveal the script.  The white embossing resists the ink giving detail to anything put over it.
• Next, I die cut the sentiment from STAMPlorations with some white cardstock.  I inked it up with the above mentioned colours used on the background.
• After inking the sentiment, it looked lost on the background but I loved the colour so here's what I did to make it pop.  You can do this trick with any die you have.  I took a scrap of white cardstock and traced around the edges with a pencil.  Using a pair of detail scissors, I cut out around the traced lines.  Voila....a shadow for my die!

As you can see from this picture, I do it with many of my dies.

This is just an example of what I did.

• I glued the inked sentiment over the white shadow piece I had fussy cut and set it aside.
• I glued the snowflake panel over a piece of navy cardstock, then onto a white card base.
• I popped the sentiment over the snowflake with pop dots.

Here is the stencil I used:

Elegant Snowflake

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

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Supplies

Stamp- Snowy Afternoon (Studio Light)

Inks- Versamark; Distress Oxides

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

Accessories and Tools- Elegant Snowflake Stencil (ACLD); TE Blending Brushes; heat tool;

Lawn Fawn EB powder; Let it Snow die (STAMPlorations); pop dots; Nuvo glue;

Misti (My Sweet Petunia)