Thursday, 5 July 2012

Winter scene, embossing and die-cuts

After a week of mouth watering projects from the design team at the Craft Barn I was chomping at the bit to get embossing.
I didn't use Fran-tage powders as I just couldn't decide which to buy... Aged rose or Shabby pink ? Or Aged aqua for a vert de gris effect ? I am still pondering. Meanwhile I created this Christmas card as one can't start too early on Christmas cards! Plus I just had to use this lovely Gary Robertson stamp...


I applied versamark on the Noel and dipped first in white embossing powder and then clear before melting to produce a snow cap effect.
I colored the Impression Obsession Winter Scene (H1284) with pencils, added some Copic At You Spica clear glitter pen to the snow in places and embossed the whole piece with clear embossing powder.
I die-cut the window with some Spellbinders dies and a corner with a Memory box die.

Warning ! As some of the grains of white embossing fell when I tapped the pieces over my clear embossing container I have managed to contaminate my clear powder. On this occasion it isn't to bad as the main image has a few, unintended but appropriate, snowflakes but this might be a problem for another project.

I am entering this in the Craft Barn Embossing and mica challenge and the Impression Obsession Die challenge

Thanks for coming by,
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14 comments:

  1. Shirley5 July 2012 at 23:42

    How really beautiful, Crafty!! I really like how you did the snow on the Noel and your die cut too! The colors you chose to frame and embellish your image just really do it justice! Thanks for playing and good luck in the drawing too!

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  2. Paula Huiras6 July 2012 at 12:19

    This is really striking framed in red. Your coloring is very nice and I also like the clear embossed look.
    PH

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  3. Paper Creations by Shirley6 July 2012 at 13:15

    Beautiful creation, love your clear & 'snow' embossing on the letters, very clever ! The scene is beautiful and your colouring is great ! I hope to get something together for this challenge, Shirley D

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  4. coconut8 July 2012 at 20:03

    Whoom, your card is very, very beautiful !!! Your letters are just perfect for a winter lanscape, and your coloring is wonderful... love it !

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  5. stampqueen10 July 2012 at 06:56

    Beautiful card - love the clear embossing over the entire piece - really makes it look more like snow!!!

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  6. Miranda10 July 2012 at 21:08

    A lovely scene is this and a beautiful match with the corner die! Also the white top of the letters is a great idea, greetz Miranda

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  7. Words and Pictures11 July 2012 at 18:58

    Wow - your colouring of the image is so beautiful - I feel like I could reach out and touch the texture of the wood. Amazing work!
    Alison x

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  8. Gio12 July 2012 at 15:45

    Such a wonderful and quite magical scenery card!

    Thank you for joining the challenge at Craftbarn :-)

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  9. Anne 12 July 2012 at 19:55

    This is very beautiful! The colouring is superb and the colour combinations wonderful!

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  10. Anne 13 July 2012 at 19:37

    Re:my blog...yup! Gay Peplow talked me into starting a new blog, I deleted the last one!...although my crafting supplies are now packed away so entries will be few!

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  11. Anonymous16 July 2012 at 13:00

    Really beautiful card :O)
    thanks for entering our challenge.
    Izzy

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  12. Sue16 July 2012 at 23:07

    This is beautiful, what a fabulous stamp and I love how you have embossed it x

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  13. Jenni's Jems22 July 2012 at 15:00

    Oh this is simply stunning! x

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  14. Julie Koerber2 August 2012 at 14:37

    What a darling image! I've never seen this one before -- can you believe it? I might need to pay more attention! :-) Love the soft coloring!

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