Christmas Blessings

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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