A Snowy Forest Background - with lights

For the last couple of weeks I have been challenging myself with lights!

Yes, lights!  On cards, in shadow boxes, wherever!  You've probably seen a couple of shadow boxes I have made.

Today I made a card that lights up.

Using the tree stamp from Winter Woods, I stamped one tree using Mossy Meadow ink on a separate piece of Shimmer White and without reinking the stamp I stamped 2 more trees on a 4 by 5 1/4" piece of Shimmer White - the card front. The first tree was die cut , and using a sponge I dabbed Frosty White shimmer paint lightly over the tree as well as on the other two trees.  When dry it was added to the card front using dimensionals. Using a 1/8" hand held punch, I punched a hole at the top of the tree and covered it on the back with some vellum and on the front with an acrylic star.  This is where the light will shine through.

The sentiment was embossed in gold.

Using square framelits a 4 by 5 1/4" piece of  gold foil was made into a frame and then added to the card front.

Behind the card front, in a raised bed lies the battery operated single light operated by a press switch (see "press here" on the card front).

When this switch is pressed, the card lights up and it looks like there's a blizzard happening!

This layer is adhered to a top folding Thick Whisper White card stock base.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Winter Woods

Inks:  Mossy Meadow, Versa Mark

Papers:  Thick Whisper White card stock, Shimmer card stock, Gold foil, Vellum

Accessories:  Gold embossing powder, Frost White Shimmer paint, 1/8" hand held punch, Acrylic star, In the Woods Framelits, lights (battery operated), Square framelits

Shimmery Trees and Joyeus Noel DSP - a case

I used the Frosty White sShimmer paint to create a shimmery Christmas card, one that I saw in this month's Stampin' Success (see below)

I did make a few changes as you can see in the above picture from the Success Magazine.   Instead of Pacific Point ink, I used  Balmy  Blue reinker and by varying the mixture of Frost White Shimmer paint and reinker I was able to get the ombre effect on the sentiment (from Merry Christmas thinlets). The paint was applied using an Aqua painter and when dry the sentiment was adhered to a piece of Vellum over the DSP.

The leaves were die cut from "Rooted from Nature".  Frost White Shimmer paint was added to the leaves with a sponge.  I also added some paint to the die cut tree.

The tree was added to the Joyous Noel DSP banner and the two leaf clusters above and below the Vellum over lay.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  

Ink: Balmy Blue Reinker

Papers: Balmy Blue, Whisper White, Mossy Meadow, Joyous Noel DSP, Vellum

Accessories:  Frost White Shimmer Paint, Aqua painter,  ribbon, dimensionals, Merry Christmas Thinlet dies. Nature's Roots Thinlets

Happiest Christmas Wishes

A number of my customers have asked me "what do you do with the stamp with the Birch trees on them?" from the Winter Woods stamp set?
So I made a card showing one way to use this stamp.

I started with a card base of Night of Navy card stock, layering it with Silver Foil card stock and then the art piece upon the scene is built.

On a piece of 2 by 3 1/2" piece of Night of Navy card stock, I stamped the image of the birch trees twice with Versa Mark and embossed them with White embossing powder.

Then I die cut two leafless trees with Whisper White card stock and adhered them in front of the birch trees.

Before adding the glitter texture paste I stamped the small deer from "Dashing Deer"in Night of Navy ink, embossed it with clear embossing powder, and then die cut it using the coordinating framelit. Using Smoky Slate ink I stamped the "shadow" and then adhered the die cut deer on the card front above the shadow.

Glitter texture paste, to mimic snow, was then added to the base of the birch trees extending to the ground underneath the deer and to the other end of the card.

The sentiment, from "Versatile Christmas" was stamped with Versa Mark and Night of Navy inks on Whisper White card stock, and embossed with Clear embossing powder.  This piece was matted with Night of Navy card stock and added to the card front above the deer.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Winter Woods, Dashing Deer, Versatile Christmas

Inks:  Night of Navy, Versa Mark

Papers:  Night of Navy, Silver Foil, Whisper White, Night of Navy

Accessories:  In the Woods Framelits, Detailed Deer Thinlets, Clear Embossing Powder, White Embossing Powder, Glitter Texture Paste