I seem to have an obsession with snowflakes lately. Whenever I see a stamp or die set with snowflakes I just have to have it. As long as they are not falling from the sky, I love anything snowflakes. So, I decided to pull together a couple of my stamp sets and create a card.
I first stamped a large snowflake from Penny Black’s All is Bright, with SSS Smoke dye ink. I liked the way it looked, but I wanted to punch it up a little, so I stamped the image again using my Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad. I then laid down a layer of WOW! Super Fine Clear Gloss embossing powder and heated it up with my heat gun. I pulled the sentiment from SSS’s Peace on Earth and stamped it with Versafine Onyx Black pigment ink. I was able to put down a layer of embossing powder on it, because pigment ink stays wet longer than dye ink. I used the heat gun to melt the embossing powder again.
Once I had the two focal points stamped and embossed, I proceeded to stamp different snowflakes from All is Bright and SSS’s Lots of Snowflakes to fill up the white space that remained on the card. When I finished that, the card still had a lot of empty spaces, so I used some outline and solid dots from SSS’s Lots of Dots.
When I envisioned this card, I wanted it on a grey card base to emphasize the colors of the inks of the stamped snowflakes and dots. But it looked a little plain, so I cut 3/8″ off the card front and added a strip of dark red paper to the edge. It makes the snowflakes pop, I think.
These are the products that I used:
- Staples 110lb Grey Cardstock
- Recollections Basic Bold Paper
- Hammermill Color Copy Digital Cover 80lb
- Simon Says Stamp! Fog Dye Ink
- Simon Says Stamp! Smoke Dye Ink
- Versafine Onyx Black Pigment Ink
- Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad
- Penny Black All is Bright
- Simon Says Stamp! Lots of Dots
- Simon Says Stamp! Lots of Snowflakes
- Simon Says Stamp! Peace on Earth
- WOW! Embossing Powder – Clear Gloss Super Fine