Are you
really? I like it when I can stay inside but a blanket of snow or iced over
snow is no fun on bicycle, trust me.
Anyway the
card is for the Monday Challenge for Simon says Stamp: ‘O’ Christmas tree.
I started
with some intricate double die cutting. See the video on how to do that, it’s
hard to explain.
I used the
biggest tree die from Yvonne Creations (YCD10053) and an oval die , you can use
any brand. I did all this on a panel that’s almost an inch smaller than the
card base, or the partial die cutting becomes even more tricky.
I cut a
piece of cold pressed watercolour paper to the same size and used Distress inks
to color it. For this I used the left over re-inkers that were still on my
palette from the galaxy video, they still work.
Wilted
violet, black soot, blue print sketch, chipped sapphire and faded jeans, the
all look the same in the well, so I swatched them out on the cut offs from the
watercolour panel.
I made kind
of a gradient night sky. Dried it with my heatgun, but you can leave it to
airdry if you prefer. I then applied Wendy Vecchi white embossing paste through
a Simon Says Stamp stencil (falling snow).
I chose the
bit in the middle for average snowfall. Set it aside to dry.
In the meantime
I positioned my sentiment from CAS-ual Fridays’ set must love snowflakes and stamped it with Versafine
black onyx ink on the cardbase. I used the MISTI for this.
For my
MISTI I laminated a sheet of the paperblock Simon Says Stamp made for the MISTI
so I can try test my stamping and wipe it with a babywipe instead of mucking up
a sheet, less waste and always a nice
clean sheet too.
Mounted the
panel with foam tape and adhered the watercolour panel, trimmed off excess and
then mounted the panel with foamtape again and adhered it to the cardbase.
For more
information on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, see this