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Today’s sponsor company is the fabulous Flora and Fauna and I’m so excited to feature their stamps in my card today! I’m in love with their fun sketchy designs and you can see more cards I’ve created with their products here and here. Today I decided to do a little ink blending and embossing for a simple but peaceful winter scene. I started by blending black soot, seedless preserves, faded jeans, salty ocean, and broken china distress ink onto a panel of bristol smooth cardstock. I splattered it with water to create the illusion of big snowflakes in the distance of my scene. After that was dry I splattered it with copic opaque white paint to create closer snowflakes.
Next I stamped the trees from Arctic Starry Night onto the bottom of my panel with versamark and heat-embossed them with silver embossing powder. Then I stamped the sentiment and snowflake clusters with versamark and heat-embossed them with the same silver embossing powder. Finally I sprayed the entire panel with shimmer spray. It’s a very subtle shimmer but it’s really sparkly when it catches the light!
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Love the silver embossing at the bottom!
beautiful night sky, Jessica and the silver trees look terrific with it!!
Do you want to build a snowman? What a festive background, love it!
Love all the cards you did My favorite is the Butterfly one, my mom would love that one, she collects butterflies, so adorable. I love the background on the one you showed us today. awesome job. Thanks.
Gorgeous night sky and such a stunning and very beautiful card!!
Wowzers! I am in love with your breathtaking sky! The embossed silver trees are a perfect finishing touch! Definitely adding this set to my stash! TFS!
Awesome card. I love your beautiful background.
Awesome colors! Love those cute trees!
Beautiful, especially that ink blended sky
Stunning background.
That background has to be the most vibrant, rich night skies that I have ever seen! Wonderful!
Your gorgeous background steals the show!!
Oh my goodness, that is just Beautiful!!
This is so pretty. I really like how you did the trees in silver instead of white to indicate snow. I think it conveys how trees actually look in the snow, because some of that dark pine color comes through the white, so they end up looking silver, but I wouldn’t have thought of that on my own! In retrospect it all seems so clear, which is why you’re the pro! Thanks for participating, especially in the midst of all the bloghops you’ve been doing recently. I appreciate your ideas.
What a beautiful card. So well put together. I love that we have snow now in southern MN.
The background is stunning! I love it!
Oh my gosh, you do the best backgrounds! I always love to see what you create. Thanks for participating in this fun event!!
Beautiful! The ink blended background is gorgeous!
I have not heard of this company before. Thank you for the introduction. Your card is amazing. I love the colors, details, and design. Just lovely. Happy Holidays!
Gorgeous sky, Jess! Love those sparkly, silver trees too!!!
This is gorgeous. Actually, all the cards you created for Flora and Fauna are gorgeous! I particularly love the beautiful background and the simple embossed design on today’s card.
Oooh, this is stunning! Love!
So gorgeous! Love the white against that vibrant background.
Gorgeous card and I especially love your use of silver embossing powder.
Wow!! Amazing background!! Just Fab!!