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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Beautifully done for both challenges, Fran! Love the bit of January frost yo'uve added!
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ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous! The pine boughs and pinecones with the touches of snow paired with that snowy embossed background look fabulous and that soft background pattern looks beautiful. Thanks for playing along with us at JUGS!
ReplyDeleteYour embossed and pasted snow adds so much to your beautiful swag of pine cones, Fran. What a wonderful way to send winter wishes. Thanks for sharing your card with us at Just Us Girls.
ReplyDeleteWhat a perfect take on the moodboard pine and pinecone section! Love the texture you added...it's so "real" to me! Thanks for playing in our moodboard challenge this week at Just Us Girls Fran!
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