Two inky Christmas cards

Today I decided to get a bit inky with distress ink and made two similar but slightly different cards.

Both had the same starting point of a piece of mop up paper that I then added a heavy amount of distress ink to with the blending sponge.

I cut the piece into two and for one I ran it through the embossing folder and then ran a little white Kraft ink over the top of the embossing to make it stand out a little.

I took another piece of white and added the distress inks again to be able to die cut the centre element for the stamping.

I had to make sure it was very dry before I then embossed the Joy sentiment.

I had die cut a couple of the Frosted frames from white so used one on each and to one I added some additional sprigs and snowflakes.

This frame I added to the other panel which I had run through the Waffleflower snowflake cover plate die.

This is more subtle than an embossed panel as it just adds pierced details in the background.

Both cards I finished with gems from the stash.

Lovely to have a little inky play!

Happy crafting!

Catherine