I made 5 of these jolly christmas cards over the weekend. I started with two bits of white card which I ran through the Cuttlebug to create the snowflake background and the snowy words embossing. I inked the snowflakes with Cranberry, Stream and Stonewashed Adirondack inks using a sponge, spritzed it Bubblegum Pink, Sea Glass Glimmer Mists and dried it then drew around it roughly with a black pen. I did try adding Pearl Glimmer Mists but this made it too wishy washy and I was a bit lighter with the Glimmer than normal which looked better. The words are dabbed with the sponge with just the lighter Stonewashed and cranberry in a soft way.
Then I stamped, coloured and cut our these lovely snowmen and mounted them on to the words with large foam pads. A little Sparkles glitter glue polished them off nicely. I mounted the words on to black then silver matts, drew round the whole card (A5 in size) with a silver pen to create a frame, then mounted the snowmen and popped on the greeting with a black matt and a lovely flower in the corner. I really like these petals which I got, along with all the other materials from L B Crafts, as usual.
I made 5 of these jolly christmas cards over the weekend. I started with two bits of white card which I ran through the Cuttlebug to create the snowflake background and the snowy words embossing. I inked the snowflakes with Cranberry, Stream and Stonewashed Adirondack inks using a sponge, spritzed it Bubblegum Pink, Sea Glass Glimmer Mists and dried it then drew around it roughly with a black pen. I did try adding Pearl Glimmer Mists but this made it too wishy washy and I was a bit lighter with the Glimmer than normal which looked better. The words are dabbed with the sponge with just the lighter Stonewashed and cranberry in a soft way. 
Then I stamped, coloured and cut our these lovely snowmen and mounted them on to the words with large foam pads. A little Sparkles glitter glue polished them off nicely. I mounted the words on to black then silver matts, drew round the whole card (A5 in size) with a silver pen to create a frame, then mounted the snowmen and popped on the greeting with a black matt and a lovely flower in the corner. I really like these petals which I got, along with all the other materials from L B Crafts, as usual.
2 comments:
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Wow - that's a lot of work for one card ... and you made five of them? Well done. Sara
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