It is Kia back with you today to share my Happy Howlidays card. I just love the stamp sets I used today, being My Favorite Things Deck the Howls and Trio of Trees.
I don’t often use designer papers, but these papers spoke to me for this card. The papers are called Candy Land and they are a collection of fun traditional and non traditional papers. For my card I used the blue snowflake paper, but there is a pink one too.
I happened to have the snow drifts already made and sitting on my desk when I started this card, so I included them in my design, cutting them along with the designer paper with my Wonky Stitch Rectangle. A task my Gemini has no problem doing.
Using my Clarity Brushes I brushed on the Tumbled Glass Distress Ink lightly to the snow banks. I mention these brushes as I note similar brushes in the store put out by Nuvo, which makes great products. I have linked to these brushes below. They are fabulous for stenciling and adding soft inking to cards. I have a few sets as I wanted a brush for each colour.
I stamped all of the images and cut as I wasn’t sure what ones I would use. I stamped the dogs using Ranger Archival Ink in Sepia, along with the branch trees. The other trees I did using Picked Raspberry, Twisted Citron and Broken China. To paint the animals I laid down the colours of distress ink on my work surface and picked up the paint with my paintbrush to watercolour.
Once everything was dry I arranged them on my card front, then proceeded to glue them on, and for some I used foam squares. I then added Nuvo Crystal Drops in Autumn Red and Oyster Grey. I painted lightly Tumbled Glass across the bottom, then painted over it with the white Pearl Colors.
To finish I stamped my sentiment on the front using Memento Ink, then I moved to the inside of my card. Using the same Wonky Rectangles I cut the designer paper and a piece of cardstock for my sentiment. I used another of the dog images and a tree, and stamped the sentiment with the Memento Ink. I also added the Nuvo Crystals to the tree, and the dog is attached with foam squares.
I hope you have enjoyed this card and would like to thank you for visiting the Scrap’n Stamp Blog today. I look forward to seeing you next time.
