Saturday 12 November 2022

Frosty Christmas


Welcome
I was able to get a great frosty look for today's card using the newly released Driven Snow stencil from A Colorful Life Designs and my Gel Plate.

So, here's what I did to create my card.
  • I began with a piece of white cardstock and got out my Gel Plate and brayer.
  • I pressed my Broken China and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide pads directly onto my Gel Plate and brayered them out smooth, blending them together.
  • I laid the Driven Snow stencil onto the plate, pressed a piece of scrap paper over the stencil to lift off some of the ink.  I removed the stencil and pressed my piece of cardstock onto the plate to take the print.  It looked so frosty with its unique design.
  • I splattered the inked panel with my white Posca pen.
  • While that dried, I die cut the snowflake from some white cardstock and cut out the sentiment.
  • I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto an A2 sized card base.
  • I glued the snowflake onto the middle of the card front, adding glue just to the center so the edges of the snowflake could be popped up a bit.
  • I used some foam tape to add the sentiment.

Here is the stencil I used:

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Krafty Chicks- CHRISTMAS
Craft Rocket- CHRISTMAS/WINTER
As You Like It- FAV NON-TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS COLOR COMBO and why
(I love the look of shades of blues to give an icy, wintery look to my cards.  Adding in some black, just gives it a pop of colour)

Supplies
Stamps- none
Inks- DOX
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)
Accessories and Tools- Driven Snow stencil (ACLD); Snowflake die (Tim Holtz);
Gel Plate; Speedball Brayer; Posca pen; Sentiment strips (SSS)

11 comments:

cuilliesocks said...

A beautiful card Karen, a lovely stencil and a gorgeous snowflake die, Kate x

I Card Everyone said...

I like your brilliant snow much more than the yucky stuff falling here at the moment, Karen! Virginia mentioned you might be getting treated to it too?
=]

Pat said...

I love the gelli plate background using this pretty stencil Karen and two lovely blue DI's, and the white TH snowflake looks wonderful over the top, and great contrast with the added white on black sentiment strip. x

kiwimeskreations said...

Your background is amazing Karen - it almost looks three dimensional!! A beautiful finish with the delicate die cut and sentiment
Blessings
Maxine

Imke said...

Stunning background and perfect Winter card for our "Winter" Challenge @ Little Red Wagon.
Thanks for joining us and i hope to see you back again soon.

Imke MY CRAFTY PLACE

Verna Angerhofer said...

Beautiful and I can feel the cold beauty of winter!

Bobby said...

The stencil looks so different as a gel print, Karen, and it's wonderful as the backdrop for your fancy snowflake.

Christine Alexander said...

beautiful effect with the gelli plate print.

Susan said...

That's a beautiful new stencil. You did a great gel print with it! Love the snowflake die on top of it!

Melanie Hungerford said...

How beautiful! Thank you for sharing your process, I love the effects of using a gel press. Thank you for joining us at Krafty Chicks!

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

Your stencil is beautiful Karen, love the card, so frosty!
Faith x