Sparkle on Scraps of Decorative Paper

I'm back with a Christmas card today.

This one if for the Jingle Belles Challenge "All Bundled Up" - create a card with lots of layers.  It's not my usual style but I managed to have silver, then white, then the patterned paper collage, and then two layers of the die cut sentiment - that's a lot for me!

The patterned paper collage is done using a technique I saw on SCS.  A good idea to use up scraps of dp! I tore up little pieces of dp and used ModPodge to glue my little scraps down.  So I'm taking it over to the Snippets Challenge at Pixie's Playground.

I added some grid stencilling with silver embossing paste and some tiny silver heat embossed snowflakes. I got a bit too much unwanted embossing powder on the piece but in real life, it is very sparkly! I cut four little squares out of the finished piece and arranged them on a larger square of white cs, then bordered with silver shimmer cs.

I die cut "sparkle" out of white and silver cs and glued them together slightly offset. I went over it with Wink of Stella (the sparkle on the word doesn't show in the photo).

Supplies:
Stamps - tiny snowflake stamps
Ink - ColorBox silver
Paper - scraps of dp, silver shimmer and white cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Concord & 9th "sparkle" die, Wink of Stella, silver tinsel embossing powder, silver embossing paste, TCW grid stencil, ModPodge

More Fuzzy Flowers and a Sparkling Star

Yesterday I posted this card using one of the two techniques I thought of for creating a card for the Less is More "Out of Focus" challenge. 

It was made by sprinkling brushos through a stencil and spritzing with water.  Today I am using the other technique -inking up a stamp with markers and spritzing with water.  

I put the stamp in my MISTI and inked up with Tombow markers, spritzing lightly, stamping, and repeating until I was happy with it. I trimmed the panel and added fun foam to the back.

I used the same green marker to ink up the sentiment on a background panel and added fun foam to the back of it too.


I'm also posting a Christmas card today as I want to enter the Paper Players CAS "Sparkle" challenge before it closes.

 

I have a sentiment die that says "sparkle" so had to use it!

I stamped and heat embossed the star in white, then spritzed with a gold spray for sparkly speckles and to colour in the design on the star.

I fussy cut the star, scored and folded it, and popped it up with pieces of fun foam (3 pieces layered in the centre, 2 pieces layered in each point of the star so that I could get the centre higher than the points).

With a paint brush, I splattered a tiny bit of the gold spray on the white panel, bordered it with pale gold cs, and added a die cut sentiment cut from the pale gold cs.

It sparkles more in real life but was hard to photograph.

I hope everyone is well and getting through these strange times okay.

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - unknown wildflowers stamp, Rubber Soul sentiment
Paper - watercolour paper, linen cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Tombow markers, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - SU Christmas Star
Ink - ColorBox White
Paper - white and pale gold cs
Size - 5.25" square
Accessories - W Plus 9 "sparkle" die, white embossing powder, Heidi Swapp gold spray, foam tape

Remember to Sparkle!

It's my month to make a reminder card for the Happy Little Stampers Christmas Card Challenge.  The August challenge is "sparkle" so I went for full coverage sparkle!

I stamped the Snowy Postcard image, and coloured the holly in a strong green for a pop of colour and the roofs and snowy highlights in a very pale blue.  I then patted my Versamark ink pad all over the image, sprinkled with a sparkly embossing powder and heat embossed.  I add red gemstones to the holly, a black border, and a white cardbase.

In real life it is very sparkly but it was incredibly hard to photograph.  I took about 20 shots - some inside with lights, and a bunch outside in various light.  I finally settled on this one (done outside in full sun) as it does show some of the sparkle.

You have until the end of the month to participate in the challenge so head on over to Happy Little Stampers and get a Christmas card done for your stash!

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampendous Snowy Postcard

Paper: black and white cs

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Archival Jet Black, Versamark

Accessories: SU Iridescent Ice embossing powder, red gemstones, green and pale blue markers