Club Scrap Shades of Winter Blog Hop

Shades of Winter Blog Hop!!

Today I am working with Club Scrap's Shades of Winter.  So this is an absolutely perfect kit for me - it snows buckets here in Montana!!  For the last two days it has basically not stopped snowing.  I shovel and shovel and turn around to find MORE snow right where I shoveled!  It's crazy.  I had to venture out onto the roads today and I don't know what happened to all the plows around town - but they are slacking on getting the streets plowed - I was never so happy to get back home and feel safe and sound once again!

So my inspiration was the gorgeous snowflakes in this kit.  I made 3 versions of cards using the snowflake images.  All three cards used similar technique with a bit of spin on each one.

Supplies:

Cardstock

Versamark ink

Embossing powder

White acrylic paint

Embossing tools (or improvise)

Instructions:

1.  Ink the background of the card front using a similar color ink as the background or black.

2.  Use versamark and stamp images, use embossing powder and heat emboss images.

 For a bit of twist on this dark blue version - Draw a diagram on the front of the card like this: 

Then stamp the teeny tiny snowflakes along to lines - creating a large snowflake - doing this method you can create as large a snowflake as you want.

For the red version of this card - I stamped the smaller snowflakes in the shape of a Tree.  You could to this for various shapes like candy canes, bells, ornaments, etc.

3.  Next I used a white gel pen and drew lines from the snowflakes up to the top of the page, creating strings that they hang from.

4.  Next I used some embossing tools with different sized heads to create little dots along the 'string'.

I also added dots to the large snowflake filling any gaps between the little snowflakes I stamped.

I think these turned out pretty good - you can do a number of different designs with the dots on the strings.

Thanks for stopping by...now for more great stuff -

go check out Cheryl's blog hop project!!!
Or if you want to start at the beginning,
go check out Club Scrap!!!

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin