I'm sharing a card made from my stash of card fronts. Over the years I have made several card fronts when crafting with friends (in-person or on-line). I have been inspired by my sweet friend, Bonnie (Stamping with Klass) to finally make these card fronts into cards. :) She has been working for months going through her box of unused items and has made so many amazing cards. Thanks for inspiring me, Bonnie! :)
The card above was made using the stenciling monprint technique (ink'ing the stencil background (acetate cut with my Silhouette Cameo), spritzing with water, turning it over onto a piece of mixed media paper). It's a great way to stretch the use of your stencils by getting a negative image. You need to blot with paper towel to absorb any stray ink so that the stencil image is clean and shows the colour of your card front. I used magicals to make this background ... you can see all the variations of colours. Once dry, I used a permanent silver pen (Pilot) to outline the snowflake. The panel is popped up on foam for added dimension and the sentiment Christmas Sentiments (Penny Black) is silver heat embossed on my card base.
You can see the shimmer from the magicals in this photo, along with the shine from the silver pen.
Close-up ...
Thanks for stopping by!
Ink: Magicals (Lindy's); Versamark
Accessories: Snowflake stencil (cut file from Silhouette America), acetate sheet, Silhouette Cameo, water mister, silver pen (Pilot), silver embossing powder (Ranger), heat tool
Challenges:
Rudolph Days August Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes
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Stamps: Christmas Sentiments (Penny Black)
Paper: White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Mixed Media paper (Strathmore 140 lb.)Ink: Magicals (Lindy's); Versamark
Accessories: Snowflake stencil (cut file from Silhouette America), acetate sheet, Silhouette Cameo, water mister, silver pen (Pilot), silver embossing powder (Ranger), heat tool
Challenges:
Rudolph Days August Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes
Loll you are smart to follow Bonnie's lead - you've done it so beautifully today!
ReplyDeleteThis is one big stunning snowflake!
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I can indeed see the shine, Loll, and it's gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThis is really pretty and love the beautiful colours of the magicals in the background Loll, and the silver pen highlights the edges of the snowflake beautifully. x
ReplyDeleteOh my..You and:-)Bonnie are really inspiring me, Lolly I need to look thru my card fronts...I LOVE your Magicals monoprint card front, silver lining of your large snowflake and pretty stamped sentiment and framing. All so beautiful. TFS Love and Hugs..Nancy
ReplyDeleteI'll take big beautiful snowflakes like this over the real deal any day! Fantastic card, Loll!
ReplyDeleteI know you've made a lot of amazing backgrounds and parts and this is certainly one of them! It's truly magical with the Lindy's Magicals. Maybe someday I'll figure those things out. I do love the monoprint technique. This is simply beautiful, Loll!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful and such lovely colours! I need to do that technique more often.
ReplyDeletegorgeous snowflake Loll, and our outlining is perfect it really makes the image pop ♥
ReplyDeleteI love these colors along with the silver to really pop your snowflakes off the card, Lolly! It's galatical and schparkly and amazing! And well done using your backgrounds. I need to get on mine, too, instead of just adding to the box! Love, Dolly
ReplyDeleteWhat a fab design Loll, love the shimmery background to your snowflake. I'm trying to use up my stash of backgrounds too but it doesn't appear to be getting smaller! ;)
ReplyDeleteJust look at all that shimmer!! This is beautiful Loll, the colours from the Magicals looks so pretty, and I really like the silver outlining on the snowflake. Gorgeous card! xx
ReplyDeleteA striking effect on this snowflake
ReplyDeleteWhat magnificent use of the stencil and a beautiful background Loll.
ReplyDeleteBlessings
Maxine
What a fabulous large snowflake. So pretty.
ReplyDeleteThis is lovely, Loll. Mono prints are so pretty and the silver pen made it shine like snowflakes do. Magicals made a wonderful sky for this.
ReplyDeleteYou always get such good results with this technique, Lolly! Such a clean, crisp image! Love that shimmery background and the subtle outlining! You remind me that I need to get back to emptying that box instead of adding to it!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, BEAUTIFUL card Loll, and YAY to you for turning those backgrounds into cards! I need to do the same! Hugs. :0)
ReplyDeleteI love the soft look you get from that technique and it is so nice to see you using up remade backgrounds. Well done xx
ReplyDeleteLovely card, Loll. I love how you've outlined the snowflake in silver. xx
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous technique, Loll and your beautiful snowflake makes such a striking design! The shimmer and the outlining with the pen are great touches.
ReplyDeleteHope you are well.
Take care,
Hugs
Carol x
Just beautiful. I've been trying to use up my backgrounds too!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful snowflake stencil monoprint, Loll! This is one of my favorite techniques. I love the gorgeous variations of the colors! You caught the pretty shimmer of Magicals and silver shine so well in the close-up.
ReplyDeleteYou and Bonnie inspired me to make my card fronts (sitting in a drawer for a logn time) into cards!
Hideko xx
Beautiful, and pretty shine - the monoprint and stencil outline worked wonders for this beauty
ReplyDeleteLovely snowflake card Loll, and great Bonnie's inspiration has you using some of your stash ... cool technique too. Robyn
ReplyDeleteSimply stunning and thanks for joining Augusts Rudolph Days Challenge Luv Sam x
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