Festive Friday

Today’s festive Friday started with a piece of dsp I cut into four panels and embossed the Snow Crystal on … two white embossing and two clear embossing. Then I took two panels and made two cards. I ran out of time for the other two so they’ve gone back into the box for another time!

I decided to make two cards with the same set of supplies but make one clean and one grungy!

Sorry the colour is a little washed out in them though … the sun was just going down by the time I took pictures!

I started with the grungy one … I inked up the panel with different green inks to give contrast to the embossed snowflake in the background.

I also stamped the snow Crystal again using a dark green ink. It is all quite subtle because the paper is already quite dark but it gives some interest to the back of the card. Then I inked up the strip of the checked paper (this is the reverse of the dotty paper and I had a few 1” strips left from cutting up the panels).

I added that to the background and then used a piece of white cardstock to emboss with the word folder. I then inked it with the different greens.

I added some ink to the bakers twine and made that more in keeping with the background before adding that in a messy twist underneath the Paper Doll image.

I then inked up some strips and added the stickers as sentiments.

Think if I was to do this again I would remember to splatter as I completely forgot until I type this now!

Now the clean version no ink was added to the background papers, only to the embossed piece of white behind the image.

I decided to wrap the bakers twine (without inking it) to keep it cleaner and no ink on the sentiment strip either.

I rarely use the paper dolls but I think they worked well on both these cards as a fun vintage element with the dotty paper and the plaid with the gorgeous snow Crystal image.