SUO79 Favorite Technique- Moonlight on the Snow

Hi Stampers! 

The SUO79 Challenge at SUO Challenges is "Favorite Technique" and I have always have trouble choosing a favorite anything with stamping (love it all) :-) so I decided to go with a masking/sponging technique and chose to make another Christmas card for my September commitment to the CCC13 Splitcoaststampers Challenge. 

I truly hope that you will have a chance to stop by to visit SUO-Only Challenges to check out all of the other Design Team creations and play along with us!  Just remember to link up a card or project featuring Stampin’ Up! Only (created after September 10th ) highlighting one of your favorite techniques.

To create this card:

Use the 1” Circle Punch to punch out a circle from a sticky note or other piece of paper to use as a mask for the moon and another few pieces with the rounded uneven edges to mask off the hills for the snowy banks.

For the sky area- on Whisper White cardstock, use Sponge Daubers with a straight sweeping motion to apply Strawberry Slush Classic Ink, then follow with Raspberry Ripple, Island Indigo and Basic Gray Classic Ink (remember to always apply light to dark). 

Remove the mask over the moon and keep the masks in place for the snow banks- ink the tree line stamp from Lovely As A Tree with Basic Gray Classic Ink and stamp repeatedly to create the tree line in the background.   Re-ink the stamp and stamp onto a piece of Acetate (or Window Sheet),  position a mask in place to cover the snow but allow for the water line, lay the acetate over the Whisper White (inked side down) and smooth over the paper with your fingers to transfer the ink to the paper for the reflection of the trees.

Again, while keeping the upper snow bank masks in place, apply a bit of the ink with Sponge Daubers in the same colors as the sky (light touches) and leave an area free from ink for the moon reflection.   

Ink the large pine tree using Basic Gray Classic Ink and stamp a few for the foreground. 

Add a few shadows on the snow banks using the Aqua Painter with Basic Gray Classic Ink and Island Indigo.  Add a few highlights with the Chalk Marker – wispy clouds in the sky, snow and ice on the banks and water, snow on the trees.

Layer the panel onto Raspberry Ripple cardstock and onto a piece of Island Indigo embossed cardstock (with the Big Shot™ and Stylish Stripes Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder) and again onto Raspberry Ripple card base.

Add the sentiment (this one was printed with My Digital Studio onto Whisper White cardstock from the Christmas Lodge Stamp Brush Set), layer onto Raspberry Ripple cardstock and add a few Rhinestones to finish off the card

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Stamp Sets: Lovely As A Tree, Christmas Lodge (MDS)

Ink: Basic Gray, Island Indigo, Raspberry Ripple, Strawberry Slush

Paper/Cardstock:  Whisper White, Island Indigo, Raspberry Ripple

Accessories: Big Shot™, Stylish StripesTextured Impressions™ Embossing Folder, Sponge Daubers, Punches- 1” Circle, Chalk Marker, Rhinestones  

Thanks again for stopping by- hope to see your Stampin’ Up Only SUO79 Favorite Technique project!  Have a blessed week!!

Quick Christmas- No Big Shot or Stamps :-)

Hi Again Stampers! 

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend so far!  I wanted to create a card using this week’s Freshly Made FMS98 Sketch Challenge and decided to incorporate My Digital Studio (MDS) and start again on my Christmas cards (for the long neglected Splitcoaststampers CCC13 Christmas Card Challenge). 

Again, if you have not had a chance to visit either site yet,  I would highly recommend it- great inspiration from all!

Since this card does not have any actual stamping or Big Shot™ embossing/cutting, to me it is a clean, simple, fast and easy card (CAS) to assemble and create multiples- just what I need for making all of my 2013 Christmas cards :-)

To create this card:

Layout from MDS

On a piece of Winter Frost Designer Series Paper (DSP), use the Stampin’ Score to score a line at the top (for the upper element in the sketch) and mount this background DSP layer to a piece of Basic Black cardstock.

Open MDS and insert the stamp brush set images from Christmas Lodge (tree and sentiment) along with the snowflake from Winter Post onto an 8 ½ x 11 page (see example of layout). 

***Hint *** I re-sized the images to fit and allowed room for trimming and for the punches (although I always seem to position a few too close so I print a few extra of the smaller images and sentiment for errors :-))

Print the page onto Whisper White cardstock using Black Printer Ink and cut the page so you can trim around the trees and sentiments as well as use the ¾” Circle Punch to punch out the smaller snowflakes and the 1” Circle Punch for the larger snowflakes.

Use a Stampin’ Write marker to lightly color the tree- I used Lucky Limeade (thought I was grabbing Old Olive- oops! :-)).

 *** Another hint ***- Do not apply too much of the marker or the printer ink will start to dissolve and color your marker (especially with lighter colors, it can muddy up” the marker tip and your image color).

Trim and adhere the tree image onto a piece of Basic Black cardstock and mount onto the background panel.  Add the sentiment using Stampin’ Dimensionals® across the lower part of the tree image.

Use the two round punches (3/4” and 1” Circle Punches) to punch two additional circles for each snowflake from Basic Black cardstock and layer the two black circles together-spread the circles apart a bit so that they will create a small frame behind each of the snowflake images.   Add the snowflakes with Stampin’ Dimensionals® to the front of the card, attach the 5/8” Basic Black Satin Ribbon bow and mount the entire panel onto the Whisper White card base.

Add the Pearls to the snowflake center and upper right hand corner of the tree image to finish off the card.  

Stamp Sets:  Christmas Lodge, Winter Post (all MDS)

Ink: Printer Ink- Black, Stampin’ Write Marker- Lucky Limeade (retired)

Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Winter Frost DSP

Accessories:  Punches- ¾” and 1” Circle, Pearls, 5/8” Basic Black Satin Ribbon

Thanks again for stopping by!  If I had not told you, could you tell that it was all of the images were printed on the computer?  I hope not...but I do hope that all of you have a terrific and relaxing Sunday!!