Hello there! I'm beginning to work fast and furious on Christmas holiday cards. It seems like I never start early enough. This card got its start as a tool I used to make another card. And then I thought, what if I did this? What happened was this!
Now you're probably wondering what "tool" I am talking about. You see, this panel actual started life as a stencil for another Scrappy Tails Crafts card I made. So, let's talk about how it all started.
I cut a piece of thick, white cardstock to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". Then I took the smaller snowflake dies from the Scrappy Tails Crafts
Intricate Snowflake Spinner Add-On dies set. I taped them to the white cardstock and ran it through my die cut machine. Then I repeated.
I kept going until I was left with a "complete" panel.
It was this panel that I used as a stencil to create a panel similar to the one below.
And my stencil piece looked like this.
I thought it had potential. So I stenciled more snowflakes with a navy ink. I liked what I was seeing on the stencil but it wasn't ready. I brought back both ink colors and started liberally applying ink.
And since I thought it was already looking like a winter sky, I added water splatters and white splatters. Which left me with this beauty.
My navy ink actually turned purple when I splattered it with water making it look like I used three colors instead of just two!
I grabbed a smaller rectangle die to cut it down a bit for optimum effect.
Now that I had this beautiful panel, I wanted to make sure I kept it as the center of attention. I cut a larger panel out of white cardstock. I stamped the "Christmas Blessings" sentiment from the
Cardinal Blessings set with the same blue ink.
I added foam tape to the back of the snowflake panel and adhered it to the white panel. Then I added foam to the back of the white panel and adhered it to the blue card base. And there we have it. A piece that started as a tool and became a card of its own!
Thanks for stopping by my crafty little corner!
~Kristina
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