This card was a serious challenge to photograph, but worth the effort. I made it back in August, and is featured in my August "Stamp-A-Stack of Stuff" class. Unfortunately I have since lost the original card (it was probably ‘borrowed out’ grrrr…). Doesn’t the card center appear to float on the middle?! I now have my class outlines (supplies needed, finished photo and step by step) available for purchase now on my ‘Class Outlines’ page and this is in the August ’07 one.
I used overhead transparencies (Office Max) and cut them to 6×6 cards (that will fit in Stampin’ Up!®’s 6 1/2 x6 1/2 envelopes) and stamped the snowflakes in white StazOn® on both the front and the back so that that you will always see snowflakes even with the card open but none of them ‘overlap’ each other when closed. (That’s a little OCD problem I had with it… but it worked out!). We sell StazOn® in white, black and brown and (yeah, finally… the StazOn® cleaner, yeah!).
I have shown (left) the card (well, what is used as the card base) before adhering the front and inside layers. The card ‘front’ has both a panel on the front and also the back of the front inside (to hide the monoadhesive). The inside greeting was carefully adhered with mono in each corner so that I didn’t have to put another layer on the very back (what me, lazy?).
I used the beautiful Sleigh Bells Ring set and the new Snowfall set. Most of the main image was sponged with sponge daubers and then touched up with markers for an ‘early winter morning’ look to this peaceful landscape sketch.
This elegant card is made with Season of Joy which is available in the Holiday Mini Catalog, but only until November 30th! AND it was a card featured in my September "Stamp a Stack of Stuff" class which you can now purchase online (the photos, recipes and directions) now!
ere is my Vanilla pad??!!!(grrrr…). The green is Always Artichoke and while I used Basic Brown ink, I used Chocolate Chip cardstock. Of course my perennial favorite ‘Lovely as a Tree’ is the main set. Anyhow, I made do with white crafter’s ink which is more ‘snowy’ looking, so I added the tiny ‘crescents’ of white on the branches of the tree with the edge of the sponge dauber (okay, okay… so I dropped the dauber the first time and it looked like snow on a branch LOL!). So, while Thomas Kinkade (the artist "painter of light") won’t be getting nervous about competition, I was pleased with the result. I added light glitter after photographing (as glitter doesn’t photograph well–well, for me anyway). The side fold is one of my favorite ways to do a card and you can see that I used the Weathered background stamp and sponged more brown on the edges of the card to add to the ‘weathered’ wooden appearance. I haven’t decided on the greeting and while it is winter, it is such a peaceful card, it can be really used for any occasion and is definately appropriate as a masculine card… So, how did I do? **Remember my customer challenge for feedback on my blog–win free product!**
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