Joyous Holiday

Hello and Welcome

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)

Be Merry

Welcome

Working on a few cards for the holidays (I guess you can never get started soon enough on that) although I am enjoying the summer and don't really want to think about the winter lol.

I have to say though, this card was fun to create.

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

• I began by inking up my white cardstock using my Gel Plate. To do that, I pressed some Peacock Feathers, Blueprint Sketch and some Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink onto my plate.  Using a brayer, I blended the colours together, pressed my paper onto the plate and lifted the print.
• I rubbed the inky piece with an anti-static bag and placed it into my Misti.  I stamped the snowflakes randomly over the blue panel with some Versamark ink and then white heat embossed the snowflakes.
• Next, I got out this 'Merry' die.  It is a 2 part die with one die cutting the word and the other cutting the outline.  I cut the outline with some white cardstock, then cut the word right from the stamped panel.  
• I glued the cut out Merry onto the outline piece and fitted it back into place matching up the background.
• I glued it onto a white card base then added 3 gems to the snowflake centers.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Snowflakes (TH); Crystal Snowflake (Impression Obsession)

Inks- Distress Oxides (colours mentioned above); Versamark

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Merry die (The Stamp Market); white eb powder; gems; 

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Spellbinder Platinum; Gel Plate; Speedball Brayer; anti-static bag

Winter Wonderland

 Good Morning

One more Christmas card that I didn't get time to post.

I just had to play with this new-to-me Merry stamp and die I got by Taylored Expressions and the newest release in the Distress ink line; Rustic Wilderness.

I added it over a bubble painted background....so fun and easy to do.

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

• I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock for my card front panel.  I put some Peacock Feathers Distress and Salty Ocean re-inker into a cup of water, then added some Dawn Dish Soap and mixed it up really well.  That was my bubble solution.
• Using a straw, I blew bubbles into the mixture and then placed my paper over the bubbles to create the bubble front of my card.  I repeated that process until I was happy with the coverage.  It looked a bit flat so I added some Evergreen Bough re-inker to the same mixture and made more bubbles.  I let the panel dry completely before moving onto the next step.
• I placed the piece into my Misti and stamped the snowflakes randomly around the outside edge using some Versamark ink.  I then white heat embossed them all.
• I stamped the 'Merry' over the bubble background in the center of the panel with some Rustic Wilderness ink and clear heat embossed it that gave it great shine.  The 'Merry' stamp comes with a die so I positioned that over the Merry and die cut it out in my Cuttlebug.
• Using the die again and some white cardstock, I cut it out 3 more times and glued them all together with the one I cut from the stamped panel.
• I glued the panel onto a heavy white card base, then I fit the die cuts back into the cut away area and glued them in place.  *by die cutting all the pieces and gluing them together, it raised up the sentiment to make it more prominent on my card front*
• To add interest, I glued some little white pearl dots onto the center of the snowflakes.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Merry (Taylored Expressions); Snowflakes (Recollections)

Inks- Versamark; Distress Re-inkers (listed above)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook(

Accessories and Tool- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); clear eb powder; white eb powder; 

Dawn dish soap; straw; Cuttlebug

Sweater Weather

Welcome

Need some last minute card ideas?  I have a simple card to show you today.

I made some plaid using my Copic Markers and a ruler.  Pretty simple but fun to try.

I love all the plaids we see for winter; so cozy and warm.

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

• I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock.  Using a red Copic marker, I drew in the lines of my plaid with a ruler.  When I was happy with that, I added a few black lines to add interest....simple so far, right?
• Next, using this 2 part 'Merry' die from The Stamp Market, I die-cut the letters from the panel and set that aside.
• I then die-cut the shadow for the die with some black and glued the lettering over the black shadow background die cut.
• I matched the plaid lettering to the background as best I could and glued it into place.
• I added some black gems for interest.
• Finally, I glued it onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto black and then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- FUN WITH DIES

The Male Room- TARTAN, PLAID

Crafting Happiness- MOSTLY RED

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Copic markers

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); black (Michaels)

Accessories and Tools- Merry die (The Stamp Market); Cuttlebug; black gems