Can you believe it's snowing here today in West Texas...big huge flakes?!! I LOVE it, and hope it sticks around awhile. And the weather reminded me I have a card I forgot to post that I made last month. It's simple, but uses
Ranger Alcohol Ink and Gloss Cardstock...some of my favs! Here is the tutorial as well if you want to make one yourself.
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| Cut a piece of 12x12 Gloss Paper to 8.5x5.5 inches and fold in half to make an A2 sized card base (4.25x5.5 inches). Cut another 3.75x4.5 inches to use as the sky portion, and other another smaller piece 3x4.5 to use of the snow portion. Also, die cut the Assembly Snowman with the Gloss Cardstock as well. |
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| Shake Snow Cap and Silver Mixative until the ball inside is going crazy, and apply a drop of each into a piece of felt on the Alcohol Ink Applicator Tool. Add about three drops of Sail Boat Blue, and begin pouncing the ink onto the base card front. You don't have to cover the whole thing like I did, as you will only see the edges. |
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| Using the sky portion card, apply Cloudy Blue to a new piece of felt and pounce that on about 3/4 of the way down. Take a Mini Ink Blending Tool, and apply a few squirts of Alcohol Blending Solution and one drop of Snow Cap Mixative to it, let it set a minute, while you layer the Holiday Knit Stencil over the sky. You don't want it too wet. Lightly pounce the tool onto the stencil. You won't see a lot happening, but when you remove the stencil, those portions will be lighter. |
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| Use Cloudy Blue and Snow Cap and pounce that of the smaller piece of Gloss Cardstock and cut those into three smaller pieces larger to smaller. |
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| Apply Pitch Black to the hat, eyes, and buttons, Caramel to the branch arms, Cloudy Blue to the scarf, Poppyfield to the berries, Botanical to the leaf, and Sunset Orange to the nose. |
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| Apply Cloudy Blue and Snow Cap to the bottom and edges of the round snowman body parts. |
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| Tear the edges of the snow pieces, and adhere them together with Multi Matte, staggering the pieces. |
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| Assemble the snowman with Multi Matte and Adhesive Foam for a 3D look. Add Cranberry Stickles to the berries, and do a little line work to the scarf and leaf with a Fude Ball Pen. Ink the edges of the snowman with Jet Black Archival, and snip the edges of the scarf for a frayed look. |
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| Stitch the borders of the sky portion and the snow pieces so that all is together. Stamp the sentiment in Jet Black, and emboss with Clear Embossing Powder. |
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| Attach the sky and snow to the base card using the Adhesive Strips...love those! |
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| Ink the edges of the card with Wendy's Cornflower Blue Archival and stamp the tiny snowflakes onto the bottom portion of the snowman. Give him a quick dry with a heat tool, and attach him onto the card with Foam Tape, tucking him into the bottom of the snow piece. Add Mercury Glass Stickles to the middle of the snowflakes and adhere Mirrored Stars randomly on the card. |
Until next time...stay warm!!!
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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!
