DT: Creative Knockouts

Our challenge for Creative Knockouts is use your favourite embellishment and mine is always something shiny or something sparkly – sometimes gems are the thing I grab but sometimes I sequin – in this case because I had colours that worked well with the colours I had used sequins won out!

The challenge is sponsored by Paper Shelter and the image I used from them is Cheerful Snowman which is just so cute!

I decided to have a play with my Dylusions inks for these cards to create fun backgrounds behind the snowman and also for his scarf and hat.

I am not a big fan of the mess of Dylusions sprays so this was a challenge to me but I love the bold colour and the way the colours work.

I actually printed the image six times … once for the background, once for the hats and scarves and once for the snowman body and the snowy ground.

This first one was a spray background combining the blue and teal. The hat and scarf I added the ink with the end of the tube to the areas I wanted and then added water to blend them.

For this one I splattered the inks using the tube on the sprayer and then sprayed with water to wick the ink. For the hat and scarf I did more intense amount of the ink to fill the area.

Both of the backgrounds and the hats and scarves required drying time as all had a lot of liquid on them!

The bodies of the snowman I coloured with my Stampin Blend alcohol markers and then when the other layers were dry I fussy cut the body and then scarf and hat and paper pieced them.

On the teal/blue one I didn’t adhere the hat straight away as I knew I wanted it to peek out the top of the frame. I die cut the images and some additional white cardstock with the same dies to create the frames.

I added a few layers to the frame on the purple themed one to give dimension.

I then took a little stencil to ink the card base with the hearts using blue on one and purple on the other. I just used ink already on the brushes so it kept it soft.

Then adhered the images. I then chose a die cut sentiment which I again stacked for dimension.

Finished off with the sequins for embellishment – as per the challenge!

So some cute cards for the stash made and also I pushed my comfort zone to get some Dylusions used too!

Happy crafting!

Catherine