Collage Snowflake Card!

Today's card was inspired by two beautiful cards I saw and saved. Do you ever see someone's cards and go "I NEED to try that!"? Well, that's what happened when I came upon this neat technique of stamping and then embossing and then inking... The results are cool! You could do this with so many different images and seasons. Love it!

The two cards that inspired me are this one from Lin's gorgeous blog, and THIS CARD from Flickr. I really encourage you to check them out! And, give this a try!

Here is my finished card. The bottom image is a big collage stamp from Hero Arts. Then you emboss images over the main image...and then get inky!

 
 
 

I thought that my chalk inks worked very well for laying down the final colors. I used a palette of blues and lavendars. You can see that monster collage stamp here!  

 

Here, I've stamped my main image in black. Then I did snowflakes in clear ink and clear embossing powder over certain parts of the image. I also stamped dark blue snowflakes randomly.

 

You can see where I clear embossed the snowflakes...now that I'm putting down that first layer of light blue ink. It's neat, because you can see the words underneath the clear part.

 

 

 

This is a close up of the finished main image before I started to bling it up and before I cut it down to card size.

 

 

 

My sentiment was stamped and then cut out with the "fancy labels" Nestability set. I stamped little tiny snowflakes over the words. Sheer lavendar ribbon finished it off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's VERY stormy, rainy and windy here today. We are all snuggled up in the craft studio blogging and organizing. Mr. Buddy is fascinated by the rain and I caught him in a cute pose looking out the window at who knows what. Isn't he adorable!!?? Maybe I'm biased but I think he is the cutest cat in the universe! (Doesn't every mom say that?) hahaha.

 
 Thank you for coming by the old bloggy blog today.

Good to see ya! Have a great week ahead!

 

  

Comments

[Holly Saveur]

Hi Wanda
Buddy is such a sweety he looks so lovely a great scrapbuddy!
Love the techniek and will go and try it helps the mojo..love the card and stamp.

[Audrey Pettit]

What a beautiful card, Wanda, and what cool techniques! I just love the inking and embossing effects you've used here. Makes for such an interesting final image. Love the touches of bling, too.
I really should play with my stamps more. :)

[Lin]

What a gorgeous card, Wanda! LOVE the new stamp you chose, LOVE the beautiful blues and purples, LOVE the snowflakes - everything works together so nicely! And thanks for the mention. I must agree, Mr. Buddy is looking pretty good in that picture!

[TeaDub!]

Once again...floored! So spectacular girl! I love the colors you used...you also interpret collage very well I must say! The jumbo stamp worked so well for this technique! Thanks for sharing!