Distress Oxide Snowflakes

I blended 3 shades of Distress Oxide ink in Tumbled Glass, Broken China, and Faded Jeans.  on a piece of white cardstock. I then ran it through my BigShot with a snowflake embossing folder. I wanted the snowflakes to look a bit white so I ran my favorite white pigment ink pad by Colorblock over the raised snowflakes. I used liquid pearls on the dotted areas and the center of the snowflakes. The sentiment is by Simon Says Stamp, Holiday Greetings.

Poppystamps Seed Snowflake

I watched Jennifer McGuire's tutorial on "Embossed Impressions". She took a die, rubbed some Versamark ink over it, then with an embossing pad in the Big Shot, embossed it on watercolor paper. She then took some fine embossing powder and heat set it. After watercoloring the snowflake, I used Wink of Stella all over it for shine and a little bit of Glossy Accents. After all that, I decided to fussy cut the snowflake, leaving a small border around the outline. Kinda funny that I ended up cutting it out, but the embossing gave the snowflake some raised areas that were so beautiful. I then diecut some fun foam so I could pop it up on the card.

Here is what it looked like before I fussy cut it.

On light blue cardstock I used texture paste on Hero Arts Starry Nights stencil. It added some nice texture but it needed some sparkle so I followed the pattern using diamond Stickles. I matted it on the same white watercolor paper (it wasn't pure white so I had to use this for a mat to match) and added it to a silver card.

Have a wonderful day:)

Rustic Holiday Cards

I saw a beautiful card on Stickydots.blogspot.com and made my versions of this card. I used a piece of kraft cardstock and the Sizzix/Tim Holtz 3D wood embossing folder, before running this though the Big Shot, I lightly ran a brown ink pad over the folder's raised areas so it would push the ink into the paper and look more like wood grain . I sprayed some Distress Spray stain over the panel to darken a few areas, and splattered watercolor paint in white and brown randomly. I used concentric circles to make a wreath, then applied crackle texture paste, after it dried I used my finger and applied some brown distress ink over the crackle to look like birch wood. I pressed the brown pad into the frame to add some depth. I die cut and glued snowflakes to the panel, using the wreath as a guide to be sure they would all fit. I cut a piece of vellum to fit the wreath. I die cut the flowers and leaves, added some Liquid Pearls and clear Stickle. I added some grommets in the corners. I think adding several mat layers really adds something to the cards.

Halloween Lantern

The Tim Holtz/Sizzix Birch Tree die can be used so many different ways, here, in black for a Halloween lantern, I've used it in kraft cardstock  with multi background for Thanksgiving cards and in white for a more traditional Christmas card. The lantern is 2 pieces of  8.5 x 11" cardstock plus 4 pieces of black cardstock for your die cut. I used Darice Premium translucent vellum, 1 sheet of
8.5 x 11", cut into 4 pieces (4.25 x 5.5") each. For the alcohol ink I used Ranger Pearl Alcohol ink in Splendor which is orange, and a little yellow. I got the idea for coloring the vellum from a Lawn Fawn Youtube video for making a Halloween Lantern. My lantern is different because I had to alter the size to fit my die and I wanted a sloped top.

The rectangle has to be SMALLER than the tree die so it can hold the tree diecut in. I cut out the rectangle, the only way I could fit it in the BigShot was to fold it in 1/2, which cut 2 sides at once.

Here's what it looked like after cutting. I then glued on the back the tree diecut, and then the vellum behind the trees.

Use a felt blotting tool and add dots of ink

Dab and smear the ink. Add more after dry to give a layered look.

Here's the final result. The one on the left is curled because I tried adding blending solution, I didn't like that one as much.

Sizzix Snowflake on Fuchsia Alcohol Ink

Alcohol ink on Yupo, my favorite thing to play with, I love the intensity, the movement, the layering of color. Here I used 3 colors of Ranger Alcohol ink: Enchanted (Pearl), Raspberry and Red Pepper. I poured some Alcohol Ink Blender Solution on Yupo paper and randomly dropped dots of each color on the paper. I then used a straw and blew the colors around.

Here is the result

Felt Blender

I then took a piece of felt and attached it to a blender tool, placed a few drops of Alcohol Blender Solution on it and randomly pounced the Yupo paper.

The final result.

Pounce and move the tool around.