Dies

Happy Tuesday friends!  I hope you`ve had a creative week and are ready to keep the inspiration flowing…

I love simple cards for Christmas- it`s better to actually send a handmade card than to just make them and hang on to them (though I`ve done a lot of that over the years!)  It`s a good thing this card is simple, because I`m having keyboard issues and will have to keep this post short 🙂  I love using white on Christmas cards, and chose to focus on a pearly white deer for this card, with a colorful background created with Color Burst on watercolor paper.  I created a several backgrounds in one sitting, then selected the one I wanted to go with this die cut.  The snowflake was added with white texture paste, which I sprinkled a bit of chunky glitter on while it was wet.  I`d forgotten how it picks up the ink color behind it as it dries, so added a bit of white embossing powder when I started to notice it fading on me.  After melting the powder, I ended up with a unique distressed looking snowflake, to which I added some bling to make it stand out.

A combo of ribbon, die cut sentiment and sentiment stickers finish off this simple card, which I mounted on a kraft card base.  Hope you like how this came together- I love the color possibilities when you pull out Color Burst!  I definitely ended up with inky fingers after making these pretties…

Inky hugs,

Tara