We're still celebrating snow at Jingle Belles this week, so I had to pull out my all-time-favorite snowflake stamp from Hero Arts … you know, one of those stamps you won't part with even though it's no longer produced.
I embossed with Versamark and then used light blue watercolor paint for resist. After drying a bit with my embossing gun, I wiped the embossed snowflakes with a baby wipe (which I discovered removed a little of the watercolor, but I liked the effect.) I intended for the snowflakes to be my entire card base, but I futzed-up the embossing on one side, so I trimmed it down and designed around what I had left.
I always make sure I paint a piece of watercolor paper larger than my image, so I can use the trimmed borders as coordinating paper to stamp my sentiment. This Stampotique sentiment usually goes on the inside of my holiday cards, but I decided it worked well with the snowflakes.
I finished with some iridescent snowflake and silver sequins.
I'm also joining the Tuesday Throwdown where the theme is Anything Goes and the City Crafter Challenge where they are celebrating Sequins.
Great way to incorporate our challenge theme! Thank you for joining CCCB this week!!
Samra DT
Oh Stef it’s so lovely to have you playing along and with a stupendous card!! Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us at CCCB!!
Beautiful. Some of the best cards are created from goofs. I like the idea of starting out big enough to have a piece left for the sentiment. Thanks for sharing this with us at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge. Good luck.
Debi TT DT
Gorgeous card! Thanks for joining us at Tuesday Throwdown!
hugs!
Pam
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