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Yep, back to the swoosh of flakes stamp! This time, stamped twice onto tall panels and graced with two punched flakes mounted with brads.
Since I had, by now, run out of gold brads I used silver on all of these and then used thick acrylic stickers for the greetings. One is applied directly to the card and two were stuck to more of the teal background card color and trimmed out for mounting.
Ddd
Hey, It's MY blog and you'll look at CHristmas cards till I tell you to stop!
In this group, background of the upper center one is done with alcohol inks and silver mixatives, cleaning off the applicator by streaking across the glossy cardstock. The other four use a Whispers ink pad dragged across the cardstock to leave streaks.
All have teal punched snowflakes, showflake brads and sticker greetings. If you look closely you can see that some of the brads are gold, some silver, and one white. I used some gold snowflake stickers in each center to tie in the gold of the greeting stickers.
Ddd
Are you saying to yourself, "Hey, I saw these already!"? Think again! THOSE were gold flakes and these are teal, THOSE had scrapbook paper mats and these do not, THOSE had a single gold brad and these have THREE!
See? Totally different!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Ddd
I used another panel with the snowflake stamped background but this time added a gold panel to the center. Over this I adhered a teal snowflake fromt he MS punch using a gold snowflake brad.
I, again, used a peel-off greeting.
Ddd
This swirl of flakes is from the same clear acrylic set of stamps as the large ones stamped yesterday. I stamped on a glossy panel and then used the MS punch to make golden flakes from a portion of a foiled Christmas card from last year. These I attached using gold snowflake brads.
Scrapbook paper was used to create the mat and these are mounted to teal folded cardstock. The greeting is a gold peel-off sticker.
Ddd
I recently bought a snowflake stamp set of clear acrylics and have put them to good use. I folded a glossy cardstock and stamped an overall pattern of flakes using Whispers ink.
Then I used another recent purchase - a Martha Stewart snowflake punch and make these four by punching over foiled imprints from an old Christmas card. I love how the different foil snowflakes make every punch look like a different tool was used! The foild were of magenta, teal, silver and gold.
Each flake was mounted using only a glue dot in the middle to leave dimension in the edges. Then a rhinestone was adhered to the center of each and the greeting - a gold peel-off - added to the card.
Ddd
Technically, this could come under the heading of 'collage' cards but I really wanted to point out the background technique instead. I made this background with three tones of alcohol ink and silver mixatives. This was near the end, when I had little left on the applicator and the colors were pretty well blended. I used a slide-and-twist motion to clean off the applicator on the glossy cardstock and this was the result. I used a fancy corner punch on the background.
The center panel is the front off an old Christmas card, cut with a Nestabilities label die. I raised it on foam tape for dimension. I mounted on a folded pink cardstock base with the corners rounded and then added a thick acrylic sticker to more of the pink and trimmed around before adhering to the card.
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I feel free showing all my Christmas cards now because 1) they've been in the mail long enough that most should have been received by now and 2) I haven't had a comment on my blog for so long I don't think anyone is out there anymore. It's not like someone is going to see this and 'spoil the surprise'.
Ddd
I'm calling this entry 'stamping' even though you can hardly see it in the final result and even though I didn't to the original stamping! A friend sent me these two impressions in an image swap and I colored them in with markers. I used a Cuttlebug die to cut snowflakes out of the glittery parts of last year's Christmas cards and covered the trees with them.
A punch was used to round the corners of the panel and the tent-fold green cardstock bases.
Each one has a thick acrylic sticker applied.
Ddd
More tiger eye spheres set off this simple combination with creamy fall colored paper beads. A 27.5-inch length, this goes well with any casual attire.
...and we now return you to your regularly scheduled blog programming!
Ddd
Ball beads of tiger eye are encased in silver caps to separate these moss-green paper beads. This makes for a classy necklace of a generous 32-inch length.
The 'dashes' are the paper beads from striped paper in subdued tones. The 'dots' are the shiny wooden beads in a tone that makes them look like birch.
A very subtle 30.5-inch length.
30 inches of fruity goodness! In addition to the clear embossing powder I added a coat of embossing called 'icy sparkle' It has a very subtle glitter in it and really adds the perfect finish to these beads.
Pink and orange glass beads are spacers.
Ddd
A two-toned subtle print paper created these beads. I used brown glass beads and encased them in silver caps to make up the spacers. This necklace is a long 31.5 inches.
The colors in this 30.5-inch necklace remind me of what one might see in an aquarium. The beads are from a leafy print and the blue and orange glass beads are colors pulled from that print.
The spacers for this 27-inch necklace are made of bone (I think) and look great with the speckled beads created from a brightly striped paper.
This makes for a very casual look that could be worn with a multitude of different outfits.
If you didn't know these beads were paper you'd be fooled into believing they were make of wood.
I had these real wooden carved disk beads and brown glass balls which paired beautifully for this 30.5-inch necklace.
For the rest of my beads - from here on - I embossed them. I put the bead on a toothpick, rolled across a Versamark pad, and dipped into clear embossing powder and heated with a heat gun. This gives the beads a protective coating for longer wear and makes them match up better with the commercial beads.
This set was made with plaid paper. Colors from the paper were pulled out for the accent beads - dark wooden thin disks and green plastic thick disks.
This necklace measures 27 inches.
Ddd
Hah! You probably thought I was done with these. But, wait! There's more!
This plaid turned into a camoflage look and I combined the beads with garnet chips for this earthy 27-inch string.
For a recent swap, with the assignment to work in silver and/or gold, I stitched up these praying hands in gold metallic Sulky thread on silver cardstock. I cut it out and embossed with a Nestability die.
I used a silver folded cardstock base and trimmed off the right of the front. Then the front panel has had a gold foil paper overlaid and the stitched panel is mounted onto it.
I used gold peel-off stickers on the left corners and as a border on the inside back that shows when the card is closed because of the trimmed front cover.
I added graduated rhinestone accents along the top and bottom of the stitched panel.
Ddd
My Secret Sister gave me a gift and it was wrapped in this beautiful paper. I couldn't toss it out so I turned it into these beads. Since the paper is thinner it makes a more streamlined bead.
I combined it with irridescent glass beads and made up this 24.5-inch beauty.
