Peace ---- A Wild Whisper Christmas Card

I am so excited to be participating in a blog hop for Wild Whisper this week. 

Watch for the blog hop to go live at 6pm MT on Friday, Nov 18.

However, I was so inspired by this beautiful new paper that I decided to make a Christmas Card to share with you today. 

I started by trimming a 4"x 5.25" piece from this 12x12 design from the Holiday Style Paper pack. 

After rounding the corners, I sprinkled a bit of Pthalo Green Color Burst Powder

 & misted with some water.

The paper curled a bit but held up really well with the moisture.

This piece is a 3"x 4" card from the Holiday Style Card Collection. I rounded the corners and used my ink blending tool to apply some Cracked Pistachio Distress Ink to the edges.

Next I used the Stacked Snowflake Die from Sizzix to cut out some snowflakes in the Holiday green deco sheet. I also trimmed out one of the banners from another 3"x 4" card.

I added a pop of colour by cutting out the word PEACE from a piece of Holiday Red Deco sheet with the Holiday Handwritten Thinlit set from Sizzix.

Let It Snow....Christmas Gift Tag

Tis the season for gift tags! 

I absolutely love designing and making these mini works of art.

This gift tag was attached to a pair of treat filled Christmas socks for a gift exchange party with a great group of friends. Yes, we had a Christmas Party this past weekend and it totally got my in mood for Christmas. 

Here is my finished tag ~

I started by cutting out my tag in kraft cardstock and my blue base from Ranger Distress cardstock.

I started with the blue distress cardstock - I applied embossing ink to one side of my chevron embossing folder & embossed the cardstock. Next I sprinkled Weathered White Antiquities Embossing Powder (Ranger Ink) over the embossed cardstock and tapped off the excess.

Before I heat embossed the powder I rubbed the powder off the raised parts and in various spots around the edge.

I distressed the edges and applied some Walnut Stain Distress Ink to 'dirty' it up a bit.

To create my focal image. I first started by cutting out the Dashing Deer die cut from kraft cardstock.

I used a sponge to apply white acrylic paint to the Halftone background stamp from Stampers Anonymous and laid the die cut down on the stamp.

I laid a piece of copy paper over the die and stamp and gently applied pressure. I love the random pattern it made on the die cut.

I made sure the paint was completely dry before covering the die cut with Gathered Twigs Distress Stain. (Sorry - I forgot to get a photo of this step)

For the tag base I applied Ground Espresso Distress Ink over the entire tag, spritzed some water and made sure to dry it completely with my heat gun.

I took some ephemera pieces from the Festive pack and added some Vintage Distress Collage Medium over all them. When this dried I applied some Crazing Medium as well. 

I applied some Crazing Medium to the die cut word 'SNOW' as well. I just love those tiny cracks!

I finished off my Dashing Deer die cut by adding some lines with my Dylusion Paint Pen. It really helped define the edge. I brown sequin for the deer's nose was perfect for a small bit of bling.

There you have it - my finished tag for a pair of treat filled Christmas socks.

More Color Burst Cards

I'm back with another set of cards made using Ken Oliver's Color Burst Powders.

I started by stamping my sentiments on to 140lb watercolor paper and embossing with black embossing powders. I decided to do watercolour wash over the embossed sentiments.

To make my watercolours, I squeezed just a tiny amount of Color Burst Powder on to my palette and used my waterbrush to add water.

I picked up the colour with my brush and washed it across my card. I kept working the paint until I got the effect I got. 

I added some splatters of paint to the cards too.

To finish off my cards, I embossed the edges with black embossing powder and added a few sequins.