BIG Merry Wishes

Welcome

As a cardmaker, is it ever too soon to start making cards for the holidays?

When I saw this newly released stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called

Calibrated Lines

 I knew exactly what I wanted to use it for.

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

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and put the Calibrated Lines stencil over my paper.
• I inked over the whole stencil with lots of Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink. To add a bit more richness to the dark red, I randomly inked with some Dusty Concord DOX ink to deepen the colour.
• I added some perforated dots between the rows to add more interest.  (Sorry, that is a bit hard to see in the photo)
• I die cut the 'Merry' from a piece of matching red cardstock, then glued it onto the white cardstock shadow outline.
• I found a scrap piece of silver cardstock in my stash and die cut the snowflake from that.
• I glued the stenciled panel onto a piece of matching red cardstock and then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I glued the sentiment across the front and then tucked the silver snowflake under the corner of the sentiment.
• I added a gem to the center of the snowflake and then around the bottom edge of the sentiment to help balance it all out.

Here is the stencil I used:

Calibrated Lines

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Thanks so much for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- SPARKLE AND SHINE

Simon Says Monday- SPARKLE AND SHINE

Word Power- WORDS AS FOCUS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

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

Accessories and Tools- stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Merry die (The Stamp Market);

Snowflake die (SSS); TE Blending Brushes; gems; Make Art Station (Ranger)