Sending Joy

Hello

I hope you are all doing well.

I'm getting there with finishing up some more Christmas cards.  

But, I must admit....once I start making them, I find it hard to stop!!  

Anyways, here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by pulling out my Lace Doily stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.  I just love the look of this beautiful design.  I positioned it onto a piece of heavy white cardstock, then using a palette knife, I spread a thin layer of Gesso over the stencil.  I wasn't too worried about getting full coverage with the Gesso but just added enough to make the design appear.
• I removed the stencil and set the cardstock panel aside to dry.  Be sure and wash your stencil asap to remove the Gesso.  If for some reason it sticks on and won't wash off well, I soak mine in some Oxiclean and warm water.
• When the piece was dry, I got out some Peacock Feathers and Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink and I rubbed over the whole thing with an inking brush.
• I let that dry for a bit, then carefully, I mean very carefully, I wiped over the top of the piece with a baby wipe to remove some of the colour that sat on top of the Gesso.  If you wipe it too hard or with something that is too wet, the Gesso will move and you will lose your pattern and design.
• I die cut the 'joy' from Simon Says with a previously inked cardstock. ( I keep all my 'failed' pieces just for this reason.)  It is a 2-part die so I cut the backing in white and glued them together.
• I cut one snowflake (SSS) from white cardstock, then another from white cardstock (Spellbinders) but I left it in the die and added some ink over to give a bit more detail.
• I glued the snowflakes into the corner, then added the Joy die with the blue gems.
• I glued it all onto a matching piece of cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

 Here is the stencil I used:

Lace Doily

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Adding my card to these challenges:

Krafty Chicks- CHRISTMAS

My Time to Craft Christmas- VINTAGE

(doilies are vintage I think)

Creative Artiste- ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA

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

Supplies

Stamps- Taylored Expressions-Simple Strips Christmas

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

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

Accessories and Tools- Gesso, Lace Doily stencil (ACLD), palette knife, Blender Brushes (TE), JOY die (SSS),large snowflake (SSS), small snowflake (Spellbinders), gems