Glitter, Stamps, & Ink

Good morning!  I'm playing along in the Spring into Christmas challenge over on the BYSH Cardmakers blog, and this is my first entry for this fun week of Christmas cards.  I did something a little bit different today.  I recently bought some crackle paste and I wanted to see what it was like, so I spread it over the Forest of Trees stencil from A Colorful Life Designs (use code HollyFan10 to save) onto some watercolor paper.  After the stenciled panel was completely dry, I sprayed several different colors of Distress Ink spray over the entire panel and set it aside to dry.  The green spray settled into the cracks in the trees - so cool!!  I added a little extra variation to my background by splattering some white paint over it.  The watercolor paper really soaked up most of the white paint, but you can see it here and there.

I stamped the sentiment (Hero Arts) with brown ink and added a small deer (Hero Arts) that I stamped and die cut.  I also used a glittery red gel pen to add a tiny little dot to the deer's nose - so cute!  After I die cut the sentiment into a snowbank shape, I glued it to the bottom of my green panel and added the deer on the far right side.  The green panel was adhered to a white mat and then glued to a brown card base.

If you'd like to join the Spring into Christmas challenge, just make a Christmas card (or winter, Hanukkah, Yuletide...) and enter it into the linky party.  I can't wait to see all the fun holiday cards this week!!

Good morning!  I have a fun shaker card to share with y'all today.  A Colorful Life Designs just released some fabulous new stencils and some gorgeous new colors of Card Bling.  I swooned when I saw the new Card Bling, and I immediately had to pull these out and play with them.  I started by putting a few of the colors together, and they worked so well, I just kept adding colors.  The blues and chocolate browns look awesome together, and I added that little pop of gold from the fifth color.  These colors give me that Egyptian vibe, and I thought the new Pikes stencil would be perfect with these (cuz, ya know, pyramids...).  

So, I placed the Pikes stencil over some neutral warm gray cardstock and lightly stenciled a gray ink over the stencil.  I cut some clear plastic slightly larger than the gray panel and taped it to the back on three sides, leaving the top open.  After I poured a little bit of the five colors of Card Bling into the plastic in the front of the gray card, I taped the top of the plastic down on the back.  Look how much Card Bling is still left in the bags after I made this card!  

For the sentiment, I placed the Seriously stencil over some white cardstock and brushed some chocolate brown ink over the sentiment. After I removed the stencil, I die cut this sentiment with a stitched rectangle die.  I also cut out a larger stitched rectangle from chocolate brown cardstock and adhered the sentiment to this piece and then I glued this down on my shaker panel. This shaker panel was then adhered to a white card base

The five colors of Card Bling that I used are:

You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% off your entire order (excluding Master Creator Bundles) at A Colorful Life Designs.  There is a special Card Bling bundle for just this week where you can save 20% off all the April Card Bling AND you can use the code, HollyFan10, to save an extra 10%.  This Full Set Syndrome Special ends on April 7, so grab it now.  Have a great day!