Christmas Snowflakes

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Today's card features a technique I did earlier that I called Stripped Down.

I thought this new Dotted Flakes stencil from A Colorful Life Designs, worked so well for the theme of the card I was making.

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

• I began with a piece of white cardstock and inked it up with some Broken China, Peacock Feathers and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.
• Next, I die cut the inked panel into strips and carefully set them aside.
• I cut another piece of white cardstock and glued the strips onto that, flipping every other one in the other direction.  It really adds a lot of interest.
• I set that aside to dry and I die cut the round Christmas Token sentiment with some white cardstock.
• When the glue was dry on the strips, I placed the Dotted Flakes stencil over the panel and inked it up with some Unicorn white ink.
• Next, I splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I popped the strips panel onto an A2 card base using some foam tape.
• I glued the sentiment circle over the finished card front and added a blue dot to the center.

 

Here is the stencil I used:

Dotted Flakes

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Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- STENCIL

Cardz 4 Galz- USE A STENCIL

Through the Purple Haze- MONOCHROMATIC

Supplies

Stamps-  none

Inks- DOX, HA

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

Accessories and Tools- Dotted Flakes stencil (ACLD); TE Blending Brushes; 

Slim Strips die (Pinkfresh Studios); Posca pen; Christmas Token (SSS)

Holly Jolly Snowflake

Welcome

It's my turn to host the TLC Challenge (Technique Lovers) over at Splitcoast Stampers this week.

I'm calling my challenge Stripped Down.

I saw a video by Jennifer McGuire that inspired my card.

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

• First, I inked up a piece of white cardstock with some Distress Oxide ink.  No special technique here...just put ink all over your cardstock.  The colours I used were: Wilted Violet, Broken China, Uncharted Mariner and Prize Ribbon
• I dried the ink on the panel and die cut it into strips, keeping them together in the order that I had inked them up.
• When they were all cut, I glued them onto another piece of white cardstock, flipping every other strip around to face in the opposite direction.
• I glued them all down and set aside to dry.
• After the glue dried, I placed the piece into my Misti, rubbed over the panel with my anti-static powder and stamped the snowflake into the top corner with some Versamark ink and white heat embossed it.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen to give a snowy effect.
• I used some foam tape to stick the finished piece onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a piece of shimmer purple and then finally, onto an A2 sized card base.
• I popped the sentiment over the panel.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Simon Says Mon.- CHRISTMAS

ABC Christmas Challenge- U and or V

Supplies

Stamps- Warm Wishes Snowflake (Colorado Stamp); Christmas Sent strips (TE)

Inks- Distress Oxide; Versafine Clair; Versamark

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

Accessories and Tools- TE inking brushes; white eb powder; heat tool; 

white Posca pen; anti-static powder; Slim Strips die (Pinkfresh Studios)