Let It Snow … Let It Snow … Let It Snow

It’s easy to appreciate all of that slushy white stuff when you’re tucked safely inside your home with your power still working and lots of things recorded on the DVR.  However, venturing out in the wet muck this morning to go to the gym was not so fun.  Thankfully, the rest of the day will get to be spent tucked inside my studio where the only snow is on the cards.

I love today’s Caardvarks/CardMaps sketch.  It reminds me of the deluxe cuts card templates that I have stowed away & haven’t used in forever.  I decided to rummage through my scrap bin to look for papers in shades of blue since I had a navy card-front already cut on my work table. 

I had everything all pieced together on the card base when I decided that I wanted to stamp the Stampendous snow flurry across the bottom and top.  It’s always a tenuous moment because if the idea in my head didn’t translate to paper, I’d be starting over.  Thankfully, this time it worked on the first try.

To get the ink color I was searching for I had to ink each stamp in Blue Iris, stamp off once on my scrap paper and then re-ink with Prussian Blue.  I really like the cool feel of the colors, patterns, and the images in this card.

Ingredients: Papers: Navy Card base and various blue DP’S (Basic Grey and others); Ink: ColorBox Chalk Blue Iris and Prussian Blue; Stamps: Stampendous Snow Flurry, Verve Visual Winter Wonder, Savvy Sledding Polar Bear.