Snowflakes

Snowflakes

Hi there!

You need to get comfy and maybe

brew a nice cuppa too

This tutorial from Crafty Field

requires a little concentration - 

not, I hasten to add, because it is

difficult but because it is full

of brilliant ideas

Read on..

Batch making Christmas cards is a good idea 

if you want to make lots of cards in a minimum time.

 It also saves on supplies and I am a thrifty crafter, 

however, I don't like making lots and lots of similar cards, 

I get bored easily... Hence my idea... 

I bought Tando Mini Snowflakes 

thinking how I could use them in different ways. 

First I pushed each Snowflake through and obtained a stencil, 

which is actually the "waste" part. 

Using 2 shades of Color Bloom sprayed

 on a piece of watercolour paper.

 The Color Bloom sprays are very good 

to give a good definition as the spray is very fine 

and so dries quicker instead of spreading, 

especially underneath the stencil. 

However, as this makeshift stencil is a lot thicker 

than the usual plastic ones, I really needed to spray 

from above rather than from the side. 

Still I can live with blurry snowflakes...

 Secondly I did the opposite by spraying the 

Color Blooms over the Snowflake shapes themselves.

 In a twofer (2 for one) I now have a background 

and some coloured snowflakes!

 Once dried this is what they look like

 Next I thought of using my stencil as an embossing plate. 

It is important when doing this to create the appropriate sandwich, 

starting with what your machine recommends for embossing folders.

 From there add shims until you get enough pressure.

For an even more detailed embossing, I placed the Snowflakes 

on top of the holes where they used to be, but over the embossed card. 

[This mimics what an embossing folder does] 

In the photo, the Tan thing with Snowflake outlines is my embossing mat 

which has taken some of the "dust" from the laser cutting off the snowflakes.

 A bit of Treasure Gold to highlight the texture....

Finally as embellishment I tried molding additional snowflakes

 by pushing some paper clay through the stencil. 

This experiment wasn't entirely successful so 

I wouldn't recommend it unless you're as stubborn as I am! 

3 shapes made the cut (just) and I rubbed them with Treasure Gold. 

A sentiment die-cut from gold paper finishes the card.

There you have it Snowflakes 4 ways!

And now I can make a few more cards with the 

results of this experiment AND I still have all of the 

Snowflakes to play with. 

What a bargain was that!

 The finished card

Supplies:

Watercolour paper

Tando Creative minis Snowflakes 

Color Blooms sprays  

Treasure Gold 
Gold card  

Sentiment die  

Air dry clay 

Thank you Crafty Field 

I'm off to make a batch of cards.........

See you all again tomorrow

Mickie xx