It's a three-day weekend here in the US and I'm easing into the weekend with a bit of cardmaking. There are a couple of challenges with winter-like themes and it's quite cold here in my part of the country, although I doubt there will be any snow. My inspirational challenges for this card are Just Us Girls #758 - Mood Board and Inkspirational Challenge #333 - Word Prompt "Snow".
For the image I started with the center photo of the JUGS mood board of pine cones, boughs, and snow. I cut out some dies I've never used before from both Spellbinders (#S4-1135 "Christmas Blooms") and Tim Holtz (#666715 "Vault Festive Wreath"), using a bit of woodgrain kraft cardstock, brown, and a couple of greens. I die cut a scrap of white and green printed paper with a stitched rectangular die, mooshed on some green ink at the top, and matted it with some green cardstock. After stamping the sentiment at the lower end in dark brown ink, I arranged the pine cones and boughs and glued them to the panel. I prepared a top-folded card base by blind embossing snow on the top portion of the card and cutting and embossing an additional stitched rectangle. I glued all of the layers together and set about trying to figure out how to get the snow and then remembered that I have a jar of molding paste that I've never opened yet, so I applied some of that with a Tim Holtz stencil and shook on some glitter before it dried.
I think this photo shows the molding paste and glitter a bit better than the one above. Also, the woodgrain of the kraft cardstock shows up really well with this close-up photo:
Fran, your snow-dusted pinecones and bough are gorgeous - and perfect for the challenges at Just Us Girls and Inkspirational. Thrilled to see you in both; thank you for joining us!
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