Christmas/Holiday Card #7 - Snowflakes (again!)

Just one more snowflakes, I promise!  I wanted a dark blue snowflake card so had to do one more.

I dry embossed the front of the card with Snowflakes embossing folder.  I've seen other crafters rub ink on their dry embossed images and I've never done it so perfect time to try it out.  I used a new ink from Stampin'Up called Illuminate Glimmer Watermark ink.  It gave the image a subtle glimmer but I'm going for an all out glittery image so had to do more.

Since it's a watermark ink I thought it would work for heat embossing like Versamark.  So I poured Iridescent Ice embossing powder all over the front of the card.  Heat set and voila!  A really glittery card!

I added the die cut snowflake in brushed silver, layered a punched circle from red glimmer paper and another punched circle in brushed silver with the sentiment stamped in Midnight Muse ink.  Final touch is the gray taffeta ribbon.

It's so sparkly I couldn't get a clear shot of the sentiment.  What do you think?

Those are the same cards.  My photo taking skills are not the best so I ended up with two shades of blue.

Till next time....  thanks for stopping by.  Cheers!!!


All supplies used were from Stampin'Up except for the embossing folder which is by Sizzix.

Christmas/Holiday Card #5 - Snowflakes

Hello!  Today I'm highlighting snowflakes.  Selecting which of my favorite snowflake image I should start with is the challenge.  I tend to pile them all in one card and create some kind of a snowstorm, lol.  My newest die cut acquisition is a huge snowflake and I'm leaning towards that, too.

The die cut won!  My card today came together pretty quickly.  This is another card that can be mass produced in no time.

I opted for white cardstock instead of blue, my original choice, and sponged three shades of blue inks across the front for my background.  I started with the lightest blue (bashful blue) above the one inch white space at the bottom.  I followed that with medium blue (marina mist) making sure to blend the two shades.  The darkest shade (midnight muse) was sponged lightly towards the top and heavily on the top edges.  Blend, blend, blend.

Then I stamped the tiny snowflakes all over in the darkest shade of blue, midnight muse, and use the same ink for the sentiment.  I used Brushed Silver cardstock to die cut the snowflakes, the die has 3 different snowflakes, I only used two.  I layered the two snowflakes with dimensionals and added the blings.

It's clean and cool and sparkly.  I like it!

Coming up next is the other snowflake card I made.  Until then............. Cheers!!!

All supplies used are from Stampin'Up.