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Friday, February 7, 2014

Happy Winter Card and a G&P GIVEAWAY!!


Hi all you Happy Crafters!  It’s Christi again with another fun card using products from Globecraft & Piccolo. Before I get into my newest creation, I want to let you all know that this is the LAST day to enter for a $10 gift certificate to Globecraft & Piccolo.  How do you enter? 
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OK on with the show! 
Here is my finished card.  Read on and you will learn how to make this cute card.
My finished card
This is the second project I have made using just one set of Bejeweled Snowflakes Accents!! After I had removed all the beautiful snowflakes from the board I noticed that there was a stencil possibility hiding within the “scrap” (really, is anything ever scrap to a crafter?) or the negative left after removing the snowflakes.  I carefully cut off the parts I didn’t want and was thrilled to see a snowflake stencil ready for me to use.
The chipboard is very sturdy & flexible
I decided I wanted to make a card. I love shades of blue with silver.  Especially brilliant blues.  And what goes better for a shivery winter card than blue and silver?  I had already made the background paper using Distress Paints for another project (I used Distress Paints in Chipped Sapphire, Stormy Sky & Brushed Pewter and a piece of watercolor paper – the paints were pounced on the craft mat, sprayed with water and the paper was smooshed into the paper), so I just built off of that.
 
Items I used:
Stampin’ Up! Everyday Flexible Phrases Rubber Stamp set
Base card in Cream
Piece of Background Paper, already prepared (see description above)
Piece of Gray cardstock
Piece of gray/blue cardstock
Dylusions Spray Ink in London Blue
Krylon Leafing Pen in Silver
Robin’s Nest Drops
Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black
Removable Tape (to hold the stencil down. I used blue painters tape)

First step in making this card was I took my background paper, laid the stencil over it and spritzed it with Dylusions in London Blue.  Lifted off the stencil and chose where I was going to trim the paper down. 
You can see the tape marks
Once it was dry, I trimmed it and in the middle of the full snowflakes I added a wee dot of 3D Enamel Gel in Satin Silver. The gel looks blue in some pictures and I am not sure if it picked up some of the spray ink or it is the reflection of the blue in the metallic – makes no difference to me either way – I set the panel aside so I would not smoosh the dots as they dried (and yes, I have smooshed many a drying dot!). 

I took a spare piece of cream cardstock and stamped my little sentiment, Happy Winter, with the Jet Black ink – this was a test since the stamps I used are the old fashioned, can’t see through the wooden block type of stamps, which I had hand mounted.  After a bazillion tries, I think I got it straight enough.  Or, let’s just say it IS straight enough. I mounted that on a piece of grayish blue cardstock & then again on a piece of cream because at this point I was vacillating between a cream or blue card base. 

Back to the panel where I used the snowflake stencil.  I swiped my Krylon Leafing Pen in Silver around the sides of the paper and mounted it on a gray piece of cardstock.  Then I mounted the whole shebang on the card base, which as you can see was decided to be cream and added the three little dots.

The 3DEnamel Gel also works when you want a cute little dot on your card or project, but I haven’t gotten the hang of making them even remotely the same size, so I cheated and used pre-made dots.  I am practicing though & hope my dots will debut soon.

Stay tuned for my third project still using only one set of the Bejeweled Snowflakes set – if that isn’t a good deal, I don’t know what is!  I hope your weather is settling down a bit and that you & yours have a wonderful week!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Frosted Designs - Winter Blues
Craft Hoarders Anonymous - Challenge 1, Your Signature Style (I love using Distress paints & using products in an unconventional way, ex: the "stencil")
Addicted to Stamps & More - Challenge 81, Anything Goes
Crafting by Design - February Anything Goes
Rhedd & Rosies Challenge Blog - Challenge 25, Anything Goes

Next week is my finale using the same set of Bejeweled Snowflakes - woo hoo!

23 comments:

  1. I love that you used the scrap board as a stencil. Great use of what you have on hand. Thanks for joining us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  2. absolutely love your snowflakes. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Craft Hoarders Anon :)

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  3. love that snowflake stencil!! Thanks for playing with us at Craft Hoarders!

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  4. Fabulous card, love the colour.

    Thank you for joining us at Rhedd & Rosie Challenge Blog.

    Moira DT xx

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  5. Love your snowflakes, so creative! Thanks for joining us at Frosted Designs!

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  6. Love the colour, great card. Thank you for joining in Rhedd and Rosie's, good luck Hun, Zoe DT xx

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  7. Wow, this is stunning! Great technique. Thanks for joining the fun at ATSM. Monika

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  8. Pretty card! I'm so excited that you joined us for the launch of Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog. I hope you come to play often! Ginny from Polly's Paper : )

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  9. Love that you used an item that would normally be thrown away in this very pretty card. Thanks for playing along in the very first Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge. Hope you will join us again soon!

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  10. Fantastic work!!!
    Thanks for joining us at Frosted Designs :-)

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  11. This is definitely using products in an unconventional way. . .with an outstandingly lovely result! Beautiful snowflakes! Thanks for sharing your style with us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous.

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  12. Fabulous and so creative....Thanks for joining us at our first challenge at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  13. Absolutely gorgeous. What a great way to make your own stencil. I've been wanting to try such a technique - you've definitely inspired me! Thanks for joining us with your beautiful card this week at ATS&M.

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  14. This is so pretty. I love blue! And what t a fun technique! Thanks for playing along for our first challenge at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  15. Sooo gorgeous!! I love hearing how you made this !! Thanks for sharing with us at Frosted Designs!

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  16. Great job, thanks so much for playing along with us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  17. Lovely, clever use of the stencil too. ~Diane

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  18. What a great technique, card turned out lovely.

    Thanks for coming over and joining in with our 25th Challenge at Rhedd and Rosie's Challenge Blog - Anything Goes.

    Great Big Huge Hugs

    Becca xxx(DT Member)

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  19. What a beautiful card! Love how you did this! Thanks for joining in at frosted Designs!

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  20. Just lovely! The colour is gorgeous. Thank you for playing along at Rhedd and Rosie’s. Sammy-x

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  21. Gorgeous card!!! I love the shade of blue! Thanks for joining us at Frosted Designs!!

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  22. Beautiful card! I love all the blues. Thank you for playing along with us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  23. What a gorgeous project. Thank you for joining our Challenge at Craft my life this month.

    Hugs Erin DT x

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Thank you so much for your comments! I read each and every one :)