Hi all you Happy Crafters!
It’s Christi again with another fun card using products
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On with the show! Here is my finished card. Read on and you will learn how to make this cute card.
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| My finished card |
This is the second project I have made using just one set
of Bejeweled Snowflakes Accents!! After I had removed all the beautiful
snowflakes from the board I noticed that there was a stencil possibility hiding
within the “scrap” (really, is anything ever scrap to a crafter?) or the
negative left after removing the snowflakes.
I carefully cut off the parts I didn’t want and was thrilled to see a
snowflake stencil ready for me to use.
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| The chipboard is very sturdy & flexible |
I decided I wanted to make a card. I love shades of blue with
silver. Especially brilliant blues. And what goes better for a shivery winter
card than blue and silver? I had already
made the background paper using Distress Paints for another project (I used
Distress Paints in Chipped Sapphire, Stormy Sky & Brushed Pewter and a
piece of watercolor paper – the paints were pounced on the craft mat, sprayed
with water and the paper was smooshed into the paint), so I just built off of
that.
Items I
used:
Stampin’
Up! Everyday Flexible Phrases Rubber Stamp set
Base card
in Cream
Piece of
Background Paper, already prepared (see description above)
Piece of
Gray cardstock
Piece of
gray/blue cardstock
Dylusions
Spray Ink in London
Blue
Krylon
Leafing Pen in Silver
Robin’s
Nest Drops
Ranger
Archival Ink in Jet Black
Removable Tape (to hold the stencil in place. I used blue painters tape)
First
step in making this card was I took my background paper, laid the stencil over
it and spritzed it with Dylusions in London Blue. Lifted off the stencil and chose where I was
going to trim the paper down.
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| You can see the tape marks! |
Once it
was dry, I trimmed it and in the middle of the full snowflakes I added a wee dot
of 3D Enamel Gel in Satin Silver. The gel looks blue in some pictures and I am
not sure if it picked up some of the spray ink or it is the reflection of the
blue in the metallic – makes no difference to me either way – I set the panel
aside so I would not smoosh the dots as they dried (and yes, I have smooshed
many a drying dot!).
I took a
spare piece of cream cardstock and stamped my little sentiment, Happy Winter,
with the Jet Black ink – this was a test since the stamps I used are the old
fashioned, can’t see through the wooden block type of stamps, which I had hand
mounted. After a bazillion tries, I
think I got it straight enough. Or,
let’s just say it IS straight enough. I mounted that on a piece of grayish blue
cardstock & then again on a piece of cream because at this point I was
vacillating between a cream or blue card base.
Back to
the panel where I used the snowflake stencil.
I swiped my Krylon Leafing Pen in Silver around the sides of the background paper
and mounted it on a gray piece of cardstock.
Then I mounted the whole shebang on the card base, which as you can see
was decided to be cream and added the three little dots.
The 3DEnamel Gel also works when you want a cute little dot on your card or project,
but I haven’t gotten the hang of making them even remotely the same size, so I
cheated and used pre-made dots. I am
practicing though & hope my dots will debut soon.
Stay
tuned for my third project still using only one set of the Bejeweled Snowflakes
set – if that isn’t a good deal, I don’t know what is! I hope your weather is settling down a bit
and that you & yours have a wonderful week!
Thanks!
Christi
Thanks!
Christi
7 comments:
Beautiful card and great idea using the negative
You know you are a serious crafter when you look at the 'throw away' bits' to see *how* not if, you can use them! Great use of the snowflake negative!
I love your items and can't wait to start playing.
Beautiful and creative as well. Yes I save everything.
Those snowflakes are beautiful and love the stencil idea.
Beautiful card, love how you used the scraps as a stencil, it's a great way to get more bang for your crafting buck.
What a gorgeous background you have created with the negative of the snowflakes. Very clever, Christi!
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