Tall Trees

 

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Meet today's card.

Pretty simple to create using this lovely stencil called Pine Tree Duo.  It's just one of the new releases from A Colorful Life Designs.  

There are a few different designs and I think they would make wonderful all season or even great masculine cards.

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

• My card is an A2 size (4 1/4 x 5 1/2) so I cut a piece of white cardstock 3 3/4 x 5.  I like to have a border around my card base.
• I placed the panel into my Misti and rubbed over the whole thing with an anti-static bag as I wanted to heat emboss it.  I stamped using the Friends background stamp from HA with some Versamark ink and white heat embossed.
• Next, I laid the Pine Tree Duo over the embossed panel and inked it up with some Peacock Feathers and Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink with an inking brush.
• I removed the stencil and wiped off the ink left behind on the text, revealing the resist the heat embossing creates.  It adds great interest too.
• To add further interest, I used my ScorPal and added the perforated line beside the inked area.
• I stamped the Merry Christmas greeting onto a piece of white cardstock, then inked along the edges with some more of the Rustic Wilderness.
• I glued the inked panel onto a piece of blue cardstock that matched the background colour and then onto a heavy white card base.
• I pop dotted the sentiment over the panel, then added the little green gems.

Here is the stencil I used:

Pine Tree Duo

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

Adding my card to these challenges:

Christmas Crafts All Year Round- STARTS WITH U<V or W

(Winter white)

A Bit More Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Merry Christmas (IO); Friends (HA)

Inks- DOX; Versamark, Versafine

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

Accessories and Tools- stencil (ACLD); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); green gems (Dollar Tree);

TE inking brushes; ScorPal; Lawn Fawn white eb powder; heat tool

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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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)

Ornate Snowflake

Hello and Welcome

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.

Hope you have a great weekend.

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)