I hope all of you are having a great
week so far! We are still celebrating
Christmas in July with Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps blog hop and sale so I decided to try a One Layer
Mixed Media card (in contrast to the vintage style card I posted yesterday) using the same stamp set, Old-Fashioned Christmas.
I am linking this card to the One
Layer Simplicity #OLS29 Christmas In July Challenge as well as the Splitcoaststampers F4A355
“Christmas In July” Challenge.
I love the versatility of the wonderful image
and sentiments in the Old-Fashioned Christmas stamp set and by omitting the horse and
carriage for this card, I was able to achieve a completely different look-don’t you agree?
I also have been inspired by Heather Telford
and Michele “Mimi” Jourdain over the years and tried a few of their techniques
for this card.
To create this card:
Score and fold a piece of 4 ¼” x 11” white
cardstock in half, create a mask from scrap or sticky note paper for the snow
bank on the horizon and sponged Tim Holtz® (TH) Picked Raspberry and Chipped
Sapphire Distress Ink onto the “sky” area.
Remove the mask and re-positioned to
sponge a bit of TH Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink for the foreground snow banks
(using a water brush to blend the color).
Ink the trees only from the
Old-Fashioned Christmas clear stamp set with TH Peeled Paint Distress Ink,
stamp onto the sponged panel, re-ink the same trees again using TH Forest Moss
Distress Ink and re-stamp over the first image (I used my MISTI® Tool for this
step).
Use a water brush to blend some of
the ink on the trees, add shadows with TH Stormy Sky Distress Ink along with a Speedball®
Elegant Writer® Black Pen.
Using a Faber-Castell® Pitt Pen White
Marker, add a few snowflakes over the background and add additional snowflakes
with a fine paint brush and Titanium White Acrylic Paint.
Use an Embossing Buddy® to de-static
the sentiment area, ink the sentiment from Old-Fashioned Christmas with
Versamark™ Ink and stamp onto the prepared
surface.
Apply Pewter Embossing Powder to the
sentiment and heat set with the Heat Tool to finish off the card.
Stamp Sets: Old-Fashioned Christmas (Sweet ‘n Sassy
Stamps)
Ink: Versamark™, TH Distress Inks-
Picked Raspberry, Chipped Sapphire, Stormy Sky, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss;
Faber-Castell® White Pitt Pen Marker, Speedball® Elegant Writer® Black Pen
Paper/Cardstock: Extra Heavy Whisper
White
Accessories/Tools: Sponge
Applicators, Sticky Note Paper, AquaPainter™, Fine Tip Paintbrush, Embossing
Buddy®, Pewter Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, MISTI ®
I hope I have inspired you to start
your Christmas cards and again, if you have not had a chance to join us yet, checkout our “Christmas In July” blog hop and sale!
Thanks again for stopping by- hugs and have a blessed
week, my friends!
3 comments:
Stunning creation. Loved reading how you did it and thank you for the inspiration.
Julie this is gorgeous and totally my kind of a card. I love that sky!
This is so gorgeous!!! You created SO much depth with your ink!!
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