Something Festive for Friday

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies, 

I hope that today finds you all in good spirits,  Karen I imagine you will be exhausted after the fun you have with the boys,  I'm sure that any aches and pains are worth every minute that you spent entertaining them.  

We had a very quiet day yesterday,  just sat by the mobile home, Paul kept nodding  off in his chair so I suggest we just went to bed.  We both needed it. Well I Hope the warm sunshine stretches far enough to cover you too. 😘

Todays card is a 'throw back' card from 2018,  its a fu technique,  using juat ine colour!!

I have added the YouTube tutorial link below:

https://youtu.be/0EfFco07WTw

Today's card is one that I made 6 years ago (although it only seemed like last year) I am sure that most of you have a Christmas/Fir Tree stamp that you could use to make this card, thats pretty much all you need, that and one ink pad, it literally takes 10 minutes to make. There are two cards featured above as I wanted to show the difference between adding a white mat and not having one, I think it draws your eye in and makes the design stand out more. I think that this card would work well for a Christmas card for a Man, don't you?

Here is the Technique 

I took a piece of Whisper White card and then die cut a circle to use as a moon mask, I held that in place and blended the Night of Navy ink across the card, quite heavy at the top, continuing down to about half way and then blending out to the bottom of the card. I then Spritzed the card with a fine mist of water, I blotted it off and quickly dried it. I then took the large Christmas tree stamp and stamped it repeatedly over the bottom half of the card, no need to mask either.

Lastly I tapped a Waterbrush loaded with Whisper White ink over the card which gave the snow effect and stamped the sentiment inside the moon. You can also use a White Posca pen for the snow, it actually gives a 'whiter' snow.

I did two versions, one with and one without the white mat, it looks so much brighter with that white mat, it seems to pick up the white in the card.

The Card measurements are as follows:

Base Card 4 1/8 X 5 1/2 Inch Night of Navy

White Mat 3 7/8 X 5 1/4 Inch Whisper white

Top layer 3 6/8 X 5 1/8 Inch

You can actually make this card any size that you choose.

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No new challenge this week,  I would love it you could make cards using your favourite colours  and your favorite technique.  

I hope that you all have a great Friday,

Love and hugs to all,

Sandra xxx 

Ps.  I apologise if there are a few mistakes in this I literally kept falling asleep as I was writing it, even though it was only 9pm !