Festive Friday

I know I’ve already done one post today but I didn’t want to miss out on doing Festive Friday and I also spent the time making the card last night having not realised I already had a blog post! So today you get two blog posts!

This weeks card was inspired by the video Jennifer McGuire and Gina K did showing stencil techniques but to be honest my attempt didn’t work well!

Jennifer showed trapping colour beneath the embossing and then using darker ink over the top to make the pattern pop … but my inking was too similar to the final colour so instead it became a nice inky panel for the centre of the card!

I used a new to me stencil from the Greetery which has some fun snowflake type patterns. I first just added a light stencilling onto the blue cardstock for the base and then inked up another piece of the blue with other blue inks.

Then I did the stencil with versamark and clear embossing powder. Next used the starry sky to do another layer of inking.

I think if I had gone for much lighter inks originally this would have worked well. I also think my versafine is less juicy now so probably didn’t put enough down to make the image more clear. Ah well will try again another time. Decided instead to make this into a definite background instead and stamped the wreath and fussy cut it. I added some additional colour into the leaves using my stampin blends but kept it monochrome with the starry sky.

I then fussy cut the wreath and added some foam behind it so it is raised. I added a scrap of the silver ribbon behind too. I also added some little dots of blue enamel accents as berries.

Then I stamped onto the blue the sentiment and fussy cut that. I curved it and added slim strip of foam behind the middle and stuck it down. Inside the card I just added the off cut of the inky panel to keep in theme … should have thought to lightly stencil the inside but just didn’t think of it at the time of making!

Really like this cute inky card even if it didn’t quite go according to plan!

Entering this into the A is for anything Christmas and B is for Berries challenge at ABC Christmas

Happy crafting!

Catherine