This is my card for two challenges, TLC495 "Stencil Stamping" and WT493 "Spritz It or Spray It". Jenn demonstrated the really cool technique of stamping through a stencil to add color to your project, and Cathy challenged to spritz or spray any medium onto our project.
I started by spraying the back of my stencil with a light coat of Krylon Easy-Tack (tip from Jennifer McGuire) and adhering to white cs. After stamping the random snowflake image, I used a color duster to swirl the same ink over the entire piece. After it set for a bit, I GENTLY removed the stencil. If there is a slight tacky residue on the cs, leave it alone until it dries completely - the sticky disappears. I gave the piece a very liberal spritzing with Frost Shimmer Spritz. It looks like I started out with shimmer paper and looks gorgeous, but of course you can't see that in the photo!
I die cut the snowflake from white cs, but decided I wanted it to be blue. I covered it with VersaMark and embossed with a pearly blue ep, applying two coats. It was really pretty but darker than I wanted, so I re-melted the ep and poured on the lighter glitter. After tapping off the excess I heated the snowflake from the back to soften the ep and embed the glitter. Good grief - this would have been a lot easier if I had just used sticky ep and glitter! But I really like the way it turned out.
The piece was trimmed to size, edged with the Harbour ink pad and adhered to the base with foam tape. The snowflake was attached directly to the piece with Multi Medium Matte.
As always, thanks for looking!
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2014 GMT Views: 2427
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Registered: March 31, 2008 Location: Eastlake, OH Posts: 22598
Thu, Aug 21, 2014 @ 7:54 AM
How beautiful, Jody! Love the white over that gorgeous blue background stamped in snowflakes! Kudos for keeping up with Christmas cards too! The snowflake with the bling is the perfect accent for this!
Registered: February 21, 2007 Location: Bay City, MICHIGAN Posts: 17556
Thu, Aug 21, 2014 @ 8:25 AM
That Merry Christmas stencil really made this a classic looking card!! love how your BG turned out and the extra swirling of color just made it better by the minute!! Your gorgeous snowflake sure finishes this off in holiday fashion!!!
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Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 92385
Thu, Aug 21, 2014 @ 9:04 AM
Shimmer is SO hard to capture on a photo without a huge glare that blocks out your design...I totally understand, and know it is gorgeous IRL. Love the blue and aqua colors to go with your snowflake design. A beautiful Christmas card. Thanks for the MANY tips on dealing with stencils and paper. It is appreciated.
Registered: July 12, 2005 Location: Hugging a golden and stamping' in PA Posts: 21216
Thu, Aug 21, 2014 @ 9:05 AM
All of your spritzing, spraying, and embossing has produced a gorgeous Christmas card, Jody! Love that sparkly blue snowflake ~ a perfect accent for your card!
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 131453
Thu, Aug 21, 2014 @ 10:15 AM
Brilliant combination of the two challenges, Jody. I wish it wasn't so hard to capture our hard-worked for shimmer, sometimes!
LOL, because I tried using spraymount to hold a new stencil last weekend for the IC. It's held PERFECTLY when I laid it on a scratch sheet of paper to straighten it out after I used it - but what I learned on the day was that even with the spraymount to hold it down, I needed to mist and not try to brush the colour on. I'm glad you started off misting . And the snowflake looks gorgeous - a little like my Faux Enamel TLC!