- a little of this, a little of that, but mostly stamping and Copics

Since I already had the Ornamental Snowflakes and Greetings stamp sets on my table, and I had a card swap due, AND I loved the blue snowflakes on my giftbag, I created this card.  It was sooo hard to photograph and this picture does not begin to show the extra little sparkle and depth.  What looks like a lot of white space actually has white embossed snowflakes (you can kinda see that in the lower left corner where the blue…really sparkly even though it does not look like it sparkles…large snowflake has a muted snowflake arm), as does the center large snowflake.  In real life this card shows 3 different textures of snowflake: the large sparkly embossed blue, the medium matte blue, and the small embossed white.  The holiday greetings message peeking through the oval cutout does show the blue sparkly embossing a little clearer.

Stamps: TAC Ornamental Snowflakes, TAC Greetings (GWP); Inks: Versamark, Palette Prussian Blue; Accessories: Coluzzle Oval Template, Mat, and Knife; X-Static (anti-static bag); White and Sparkle Embossing Powders; Heat Tool; Technique: To create super sparkly COLORED snowflakes I first inked the stamp with Versamark, then pressed it to the blue Palette Prussian Blue pad; and then onto the white card layer.  Next I sprinkled on the Sparkle Embossing Powder and heated it.  (I did the same technique for the Holiday Greetings peeping thru the oval window.)

You can see a close-up of the sparkly and white snowflakes here.

Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by kellyrae
Filed under: Card samples, Techniques