Believe Card

Today, I experimented with my new camera holder and trying to video some of my efforts. I’d give myself an E, for effort! But... it’s a start. I still need to learn how to edit and splice videos, but now I have some footage to play with. For the sake of providing a little insight into my process, I included unedited footage. (Feel free to provide input, although I already know it’s bad.)

Inspired by a blue paper I was drawn to, I decided I wanted to try my snowflake card again, only in blue. This time I pulled out a 12x12 paper pack (that again I picked up cheap at Tuesday Morning). I always check to see if the patterns are small enough for cards, but invariably, there’s a few that aren’t usable. I cut one up and decoupaged other paper onto it. I then covered it with clear gesso. After drying it, I stamped a Unity background stamp, Worn Music, all over using black archival.

Next, I pulled out a light blue and a white acrylic paint and mixed them to get a light blue. I scraped the paint on with horizontal and vertical strokes using a palette knife. I let that dry and then stamped again this time using a dark blue Stazon ink. The point is to provide variation in background tones. Finally, I mixed white acrylic paint and an iridescent glaze and scraped that over the top. Not satisfied with the coverage, I scraped more on using the same mixture but with a little silver glitter ink added in. (That’s the video you’ll see... which is mostly offscreen). While still wet, I sprinkled a little blue Stampendous embossing powder over the top and dried/embossed the whole thing.

The final step in preparing the paper is to “vintage” the colors. For that, I took a Raw Umber paint, mixed it with water and painted that over the top. I quickly dabbed unevenly the paint back up to just leave a stain.

After drying, I embossed the snowflakes from the 10/18 SMAK kit using both a white/blue/gold #Stampendous powder and then covering it again with an old Stampin Up white powder. I stamped the Believe sentiment using another all blue powder from the same Stampendous 5 pack.

Next step, I outlined everything using a black Prismacolor watercolor pencil and used a brush and paper to even out the shadowing. I followed that up by using a blue pencil to darken the centers of the snowflakes. I added snow with a Posca pen.

To make the card, I die cut the paper and used a charcoal pencil around the edges and smeared it. I then found paper I thought matched perfectly and used those as a background with eyelash string. I added Kat Scrappiness sequins I just received free with an order and called this one done.

Pretty happy with how this one turned out. If you are enjoying my efforts, add your email above to get copies of my post and click follow! Thanks so much to those of you who already signed up... I so appreciate your support. You inspire me to continue! Till next time, happy crafting!