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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 an incredible sky & gorgeous, modern card!
Beautiful, frosty night sky. The silver trees add such shine! Very pretty!
I’m always amazed by your work because it’s always so breathtakingly beautiful. This card is very pretty especially the different ways you did the background from water to Copic white paint. Shucks, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as Copic paint muchless how to have used it like you did. Thank you for sharing your work!
So gorgeous !
Beautiful scene with
all that blue and love
the trees at the bottom.
Carla from Utah
Your card is one of my favorites so far. Looks like the northern lights.
So striking . That card would have pride of place on my mantle !
I love the color blending on that card! And all of the different techniques you used to create the snow effect. Thanks for sharing!
Great card, with fabulous background. Thanks for sharing!
Dramatic yet peaceful. What an inspiring design!
What a gorgeous background! That sky is just beautiful and perfect for your card!
Love those skinny little trees and that starry sky is beautiful!
The background is amazing. And I love the stars and fir trees.
Your card is just gorgeous, love that tree image!
Loving the background colors used. I love the artic bears included in this set.. and the ice rock.. Versatile stamp set.
Your cards are AWESOME!!
What a beautiful backdrop for those silver trees! Love it!
What a fabulous background and amazing card. THanks so much for sharing your talents!
Karen Letchworth
love the snowy night sky!
Great card! Love the trees and the beautiful ink blending. So pretty with the tiny snowflakes!
Jessica, this is amazing! I love those tiny silver trees! So pretty!
Hi Jess,
Your ink blended sky is beautiful and the silver embossing at the bottom, so gorgeous! Thanks for sharing! Merry Christmas!
Very pretty card! Love the night sky you created.
I love your card ! I’m always going too far and complicated. You’re showing me that with the right colors, the right set-up, the result can be beautiful.
Simply gorgeous card – so elegant! Love your background coloring; TFS!