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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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What a beautiful starry sky!
Wow that sky is amazing…love it.
Love the night sky on your card.
I like how simple but gorgeous looks this card. The snow gives the sparkle it needs.
Beautiful card Jess!! Love the trees in silver!
Such vibrant colors!
I LOVE that stamp set and need to order it! I saw your cards before and loved them. Thanks for sharing!
Lovely winter scene!
Wonderful card. I love the background and the trees are so unique. Thanks for sharing.
You always make really pretty cards. I really like the colors in this onewith the silver. Very nice.
Beautiful background!
Gorgeous background! Love the embossed silver trees!
So pretty Jess!
I like the peaceful winter scene you created.
Wow! Just love this! Bold and beautiful!
Beautiful card, love this CAS design, beautiful ink blended sky and silver embossed woodland scene.
Great card/
Gorgeous! Love how the sliver trees pop off that beautifully blended night skyline.
Ooooh. That card is so cool. Thank you for sharing.
I really like your sky background and water splattering for depth and then heat egos send trees at the bottom. Yummy.
pretty background!
Beautiful night sky! Love the the fun lineup of trees too, Jess.
What a gorgeous sky you created!
Beautiful card – love the embossing and all the “snow”.
Ooooh, what a beautiful card! Love your ink blended sky and the embossed elements. This really evokes a snowy winter night.