Oh my goodness I seem to be making so many Christmas cards at the moment. I really must get some birthday cards done and some other projects too. Friday comes round so quickly and of course Friday means it's Bah! Humbug! day. Yeah! I just love our theme this week. It's using stencils and oh boy did I have fun?
I decided to use embossing paste with a brass stencil by Sizzix. It's actually one of their embossing dies that come in a plastic folder, but I've pulled it off the folder so that I can use it in lots of different ways.
On my first card I attached the stencil to white card and then scraped the Dreamweaver embossing paste over the top. On removing the stencil I tipped dark blue glitter on the lower half of the image and light blue on the upper part. It looked fabulous, but alas it didn't look quite so good after I dusted it with a paint brush supposedly just to remove the excess glitter. Eek, to my horror, virtually all the glitter fell off. Sheesh I was covered in the stuff and felt like crying as my pretty image now looked very bland indeed.
Thankfully I was able to save the day by replacing the stencil, carefully painting glue over the design and then lifting the stencil and adding glitter in the same way as before. Phew close shave, but the card survived.
My layout originated at Mojo Monday with some quite big changes that came about as the card developed.
Additional materials used:
- Snowflake frame die by Spellbinders
- Snowflakes die by Marianne
- blue glitter card, silver mirri card and plain white card
- Dots embossing folder
- gem brads, silver sentiment peel off and white/silver ribbon
- Sir Stampalot - A Winter's Tale
- Cupcake Craft Challenge - Something New (my glitter is new - usually only use a snowy sparkly one so very different for me to use coloured glitter)
- Cute Card Thursday - Monochromatic
My navy blue card uses the same stencil and I'm pleased to say that this time I applied the glitter super fast, stuck to one colour and pressed gently just a little to help it to adhere. Seemed to work as when dry very little glitter was loose.
Of the two this is my favourite as it's more subtle and well I just like it. The tiny snowflakes were cut using the tiny snowflake die from the same Spellbinder set as the frame.
This card was made using this week's sketch at Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog and also follows her theme of winter. I've waivered from the sketch a little, but I'm sure Cynthia won't mind.
If you have chance do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to take a look at the fabulous designs by our Guest Designer Carol. She is really talented and has contributed more than one sample yet again.
Love and hugs
Ann xxx
