Merry Christmas

Blended light DI around edges of pale aqua card and then darker ink on the outer edge... then using a circles stencil blended different sized circles - Bokeh effect, with different shades of blue.  Trimmed the card and added a glittery blue fine border onto an aqua card.  To finish I die cut an ornament in the glittery card and backed it with pale blue metallic paper and decorated with some glitter glue dots.... lastly I stamped on the sentiment in Chipped Sapphire DI.

I am playing along with CAS Mix Up October challenge - Tone on Tone,   elements used stamping, stencilling, die cutting, Bokeh technique.

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Card Recipe

Stamps: Kaisercraft - North Pole (sentiment)

Dies:  Marianne - Christmas bauble

Inks:  Versamark, Distress Inks - chipped sapphire, mermaid lagoon, tumbled glass, Kaisercraft - White pigment

Other:  Kaisercraft Stencil -  bubbles, aqua blue glitter card, glitter glue, pale blue metallic paper, Perfect Pearls - interference gold

Merry Christmas

Earlier in the year I was playing around with the Bokeh effect for cards and this piece was a leftover sitting waiting in my stash for just this card.... I saw recently where someone used vellum for the background die cut - so here I used it to layer with  a white die cut Christmas sentiment also from my stash and teamed it up with a extra white layer for a border on the blue panel and a white card.  I am playing along with Pixie's Snippets Playground challenge #352 and Happy Little Stampers May Christmas challenge - using optional circles too.  Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate it - have a great weekend.

 

Merry Christmas

I have been having a lot of fun this month with the Bokeh technique... and today I have another card for the CAS Mix Up January challenge.  I went really bold for my Christmas card - using three shades of red Distress Oxide ink to sponge in my background for an ombre effect.  Then using various sized die cut circles as a stencil, I sponged white, dark red and Versamark over-sponged with Brilliant Gold Pearl Ex powdered pigment.  I stamped and gold embossed my sentiment, trimmed my panel and mounted it to white card edged with gold EP, then attached to a white card.  I am also playing along with Happy Little Stampers Christmas January challenge - Anything Goes, and Addicted to Stamps and More #324 - Clean and Simple.
Elements: Bokeh technique, stamping, sponging, stencils, heat embossing, ombre effect
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ps    I am also going to share this at CAS Stencil January challenge -- Sponging.

 

A stroll in the rain

It doesn't snow where I live, so I've chosen to make a rainy day card for the CAS Watercolour January challenge - Winter.
It helped that I had this panel of leftover Bokeh from the CAS Mix Up challenge and it looks cold and grey so I thought to turn it into a rainy scene.  I puddled some Weathered Wood DI on my sheet and lightly sprayed it with water and with a scrunched up piece of bubble wrap I swiped down from the top corner to make the rain. I stamped my lady with umbrella, coloured with markers and fussy cut it out. To give her a winter feel I added a scarf, boots and lengthened her dress.  Then to add a bit more interest I mixed silvery colour mist with water and using a fine paint brush added some streaks of rain and a puddle.  To finish I added a die cut black frame, stamped my sentiment and added some orange card to lift it, fix this in place with foam tape, also my lady.

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Celebrate the Season

Ok today I've a card for the CAS Mix Up January challenge - Bokeh technique ... this is a fun and effect sponging technique for a cool background.  To achieve this I sponged Distress Ink in Weathered Wood and Hickory Smoke over card stock, and then using different size die cut circles sponged white pigment ink randomly over this, varying the intensity.  Then stamped my pine branch a couple of times in the corner with dark green ink and added some white gel pen 'snow'.  I sponged two shades of red DI onto my die cut cardinal and masking areas to give dimension.  I stamped his face in black and fussy cut it, coloured the beak. Next I used a stitched die cut window to frame the background, attached my cardinal with foam tape and also my stamped sentiment.

Techniques used - Bokeh, stamping, die cuts, fussy cut. sponging
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