Frosty Friends
The last post of the month continues my Christmas card mission. This month, I’m using a Mama Elephant set called Snow Friends that I’ve had for years but never gotten around to using. For a change, I used some Spellbinders Essential Arches dies for a fancy shaped card. For a non-traditional look, I started by masking the snowy ground and ink-blending a dramatic sky using Distress Oxides in Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, Villainous Potion and Blueprint Sketch. After blending, I spritzed with a little water to give the faux bleached effect. For some added texture, I then used Ranger grit paste and a Lawn Fawn snowflake stencil, adding some glitter to the paste after removing the stencil but whilst the paste was still wet. The translucent panel was made with stencil paste rather than the grit paste with glitter added. I acually did this panel first but since the stencil paste was runnier, it seeped under the stencil a little and didn;t give as clear results so I swit