Snowflake trio

Hello friends!!  I couldn't make up my mind what kind of cards I wanted to make today so I just grabbed lots of different goodies.  I like to think it paid off since I came up with three different designs!  And each card has one thing in common, the Slimline Snowflake Corner stencil.  

Let's talk cards.  Here is the first card created.

I know you are like, Kristina, I don't see that snowflake stencil!  Well, let's start at the beginning shall we?

I grabbed the Christmas Mica Distress Stain sprays and the Slimline Snowflake stencil.  I created the piece on the far right first.  Then I misted the stencil before cleaning with some water.  I put it down on a piece of white cardstock.  It turned into the middle piece.  I put it down several times all over the paper.  And then we have the piece on the left.  I first spritzed the cardstock with the mica sprays.  Once it was dry, I layed the stencil on top and sprayed again with mica sprays.

Back to cardmaking.  I used the Slimline Snowflake Coverplate die to cut out a piece of white cardstock.  I added liquid glue to adhere it on top of the mica stained piece and I cut off the excess.

I layered it onto a pink slimline layer and then I added it to a white slimline card base.  Now I dug into the rest of my Scrappy Tails stash to find some sentiments.  I combined pieces from the Cardinal Blessings and Fairy Sentiments set.  I stamped "Hope you have a" and "Christmas" from the Cardinal Blessings set in black ink onto pink cardstock.  I cut them down with scissors into strips. 

"Magical" was stamped with Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink because I wanted to emboss it.  I sprinkled it with clear embossing powder and melted it with the heat tool.  Once it was completely cool I cut it out with the Fairy Sentiments dies.  I love how it cuts out all the swirly bits of the first letter in the word!  Then I just adhered them to the card panel.

Let's move on to my second card!  For this card I used the slimline piece where the snowflake stencil image was very defined (see panel on the far right above).

This panel was already pretty darn gorgeous so I wanted to limit the amount of things I added to it.  First I cut it down to a mini slimline size.  Next I pulled out some foil cardstocks in my stash that worked well with the panel.  Then I dug around in my Scrappy Tails stash.  I found this beautiful deer in the Winter Essentials die set along with the winter wishes words.

I simply cut them out and glued them to the stenciled panel and added it to a gray mini slimline card base.  And card number two is done!

Which bring us to the third and final card.

All I have left is the A2 sized card panel (middle panel from above).  It was another case of a lovely background piece I didn't want to cover up!  So, I cut it down a bit with a deckle edge die and added it to light teal card base.  Want to guess what I did next?  Yep, dug around in my Scrappy Tails stash.  I found a gem too!  The Hot Foil Christmas Sentiment dies and the Coordinating Sentiment dies.  

I used the Christmas Sentiment die with a piece of turquoise foil and hot foiled it onto a piece of navy cardstock.  Next I cut it out with the coordinating sentiment dies.  I added foam tape pieces to the back of the foil sentiment and adhered it to the card.  That's it.  Third card complete.

Thanks so much for visiting my corner of the crafty world!  

Toodles!

~Kristina

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Tropical Sunshine

Hello my friends!  Have you seen the brand new Tropical Bliss release from Scrappy Tails Crafts?  Oh. My. Word.  It's absolutely fabulous!  You can see it all HERE if you need to see it stat.  So much fabulousness! 

Hot foil plates have made it back and I wanted to use them right away.

Look at that gorgeous shine!

I started by blending green and turquoise inks onto a white panel using the new Chevron stencil.  Then I splattered it with the same ink colors mixed with a shimmer liquid.

Then I used the stencil to emboss the panel.  I purposefully did NOT line up the embossing with the stenciled colors.  This way creates more visual interest.  I had to hold the panel up in order to caputure the texture with my camera.

I set the panel aside to work on the hot foiling.  I used the Hibiscus hot foil plates with a bright pink foil and a bright green with the leaves.  I then used the coordinating dies to cut out the pieces.

I cut down the hibiscus patterned paper from the Tropical Bliss 6x6 paper pad to an A2 size.  I adhered it to a white card base.  I added foam tape to the back of the stenciled/embossed panel and glued it on top of the hibiscus paper.

I played around with the placement of the flower and the leaves.  I used liquid glue for the leaves and popped up the flower with foam tape.  The sentiment was also adhered with liquid glue.  To finish it off I added some clear Nuvo drops which I have recently rediscovered in my stash!

I am literally drooling over the shine and texture!

Since I was having SO much fun playing with new goodies, I had to make another card.

For this card I used paper from the Tropical Bliss 6x6 pad.  I also used the A2 Triangle Pattern cover die to cut out the blue paper.  I used liquid glue to adhere it to the patterned paper.

I stamped a bird (I decided it would be a Parakeet) from the Tropical Birds set onto Bristol Smooth cardstock.  I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to color in the sweet birdie.  I cut it out with the Tropical Birds coordinating dies.

I didn't want the bird to get lost in the pattened back ground so I cut a piece of heavy vellum using a diamond shaped die.  I adhered the bird to the vellum with foam tape.  Then I hid my liquid glue on the back of the vellum behind the bird and added it to the panel.

My sentiment strips are using stamps from an older set called Fairy Sentiments.  I trimmed them down and glued them into place.  I did add some clear Nuvo drops again to the left of the bird but it's a bit hard to see in the photos.  And that's it!

I'm glad you took a moment to stop by.  Have an absolutely fantastic day!

~Kristina

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