Thursday, August 9, 2012

Warm Winter Wishes

It's HOT HOT HOT here in Texas and I'm so ready for cooler weather.  Don't get me wrong!  I don't want it to be super cold, just wish it was a nice cool seventy degrees.  Since I can't have that, I thought I would just create a card for Bugaboo Stamps Oldie But Goodie using a wintery theme to take my mind off the heat.  I just love this Winter Bird Skate image and had to use it for my card!  It makes me smile!!!


The image is printed on Fabriano water color paper and I colored it using reinkers and my Aqua Painter.  To go along with the winter theme, I blew the dust off one of my favorite Stampin Up sets (Snowflakes).  I created the pearly swirly background by embossing it using the swirls embossing folder.  I then applied white pigment ink by dragging it across the paper and added clear embossing powder.  While the EP was still hot, I poured on some white pearl ex powder and then heat set it.  I repeated this around the image on the main panel.  For the border I used a Martha Stewart flower border but added a snowflake to give it the wintery look.  A little stitching with some silver thread to finish it off and I called it done.  

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11 comments:

Kim said...

gorgeous card, love the effect on the background - so effective!
Kim x

loz said...

Adorable card and colours Becky. I saw this on MIM..Loz

Faye said...

Hello Becky. I saw this Beautiful card on MIM..Faye

Unknown said...

Fabulous Christmas card Becky well done Hugs Elaine

CraftyGirl said...

Becky this is such a cute card. Who ever receives it will just love it. Thank you for playing along this week at OSAAT. I sure hope to see you back again very soon.

TTFN,

CraftyGirl OSAAT DT
craftygirlcardsandcrafts.blogspot.com

Bernardine Cuttino said...

Sweet and cute. Thanks for your visit and luv. Hugs

Love crafts forever said...

Gorgeous card love all that glitter. Thanks for playing with us at One Stitch At A Time.
Hugs Nataliya

Marjorie said...

Awh! This is sooo cute...lovely Christmas card hunnie...

Thanks for joining us this week at Make it Monday...
Hugs,
Marjorie
xx

mandy said...

Such a sweet x-mas card Hun :)

Thanks for joining us at 2Sisters Challenge

Hugs Mandy xxx

CG said...

So lovely & fun! I really like that stitching, such a nice touch. Thanks for joining us at OSAAT this week. Hope to see you next week! Best, CG

Basement Stamper said...

Love the card, such a gorgeous holiday card. Thanks for joining us at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations.

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