It’s Thursday and time to play at Pals Paper Arts! This week we are hosting a fabulous sketch challenge designed by talented Pal, Margaret Moody. I felt the urge to distress and layer, so I pulled out one of my favorite sets from the Holiday Mini…Christmas Lodge. This is an easy card to make. Yes, it’s a wee bit time intensive…but it is easy. Texture, emboss resist, snowflakes and pearls…these are a few of my favorite things…and I hope you will enjoy them, too!
- “Roughled” edges! The Seven-Sided Tool from the Cutter Kit is perfect for roughing up the edges of card stock. Crumb Cake ink, applied with a Sponge Dauber, accents the distressing even more.
- Speckle and spots! The Color Spritzer Tool, paired with a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write Marker, adds speckles in a second, while the Waterspot stamp from French Foliage ages in an instant! Simply ink it up with Crumb Cake and stamp it off once before stamping on the image!
- Don’t resist the urge to resist! The Lodge image was stamped in VersaMark onto Naturals Ivory card stock and heat embossed with White Stampin’ Emboss Powder. Crumb Cake ink was sponged over the image and the excess was removed with a tissue.
- Texture! The exquisite texture of the Snow Burst Embossing Folder is enhanced by brayering Crumb Cake over the surface. The edges are daubed with more Crumb Cake for further definition.
- Let it snow! A flurry of Snowflakes was created in a jiffy with the Northern Frost Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die and the Big Shot. The edges were kissed with Crumb Cake. Pearls add a touch of elegance!
So there you have it! Each step in itself is simple, but when combined, the result looks complex. When faced with a card with so many details, break it down into a series of smaller tasks, and you will be finished before you know it!
As always, your comments are important to me, so please, won’t you let me know what you think of today’s card? And remember, if you ever have any questions about the cards that I create or the techniques that I use, I am only an email away! Until next time…
Stamp Sets: French Foliage, Christmas Lodge; Inks: VersaMark, Crumb Cake, Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write Marker; Card Stock: Naturals Ivory, Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso; Tools: Big Shot, Northern Frost Sizzlits Decorative Strip Dies, Snow Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Sponge Dauber, Heat Tool, Stamping Sponge, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder; Glitz and Glam: Early Espresso 5/8″ Satin Ribbon, Basic Pearls
STUNNING!
You make my heart happy!
Beautiful! You always use such non-traditional colors to get your point across.
Mike
Wow, Ann, this is stunning! I love all the distressing techniques and details like the curled corners. ๐
Hi Ann! This is SO pretty! I love the vintage feel to it and all your distressing. I need to get one of those tools to try. I would have never thought about emboss resist for this stamp either and it is gorgeous and peaceful!
Beautiful monochromatic look. Gives it an classy, elegant look. You never disappoint.
I would love to hole up in this cozy cottage! XOXO
Beautiful Ann! You do emboss resist so well!
Hugs,
Lesley
I always enjoy seeing your emboss/resist cards. This is another beauty. I love the brayering on the embossed layer and the sponged/pearled snowflakes!
Wow!!! An absolutely beautiful card, Ann. Your designs and attention to details are amazing. I look forward to your blog each and every day. Kathy in AZ
Ann, this is gorgeous. I love those gorgeous snowflakes surrounding the beautiful image. Hugs,
This looks very vintage, Ann! Love the emboss resist technique, too! Adding the Snowflake Sizzlits strip to my wish list!
Hi Ann, I love the stars, pinwheels and they even look like clock faces the way you have done them. THey are gorgeous. It is one of your disappear into it cards! Love the browns and the pearly-Ann!
This is really neat! So different and love the vintage feel. Just like maybe it had been saved for years and brought out to be admired each year for the holidays, Great job! thanks for sharing it with us!
Chris R. from Iowa
What a beautiful work of heart! I love almost everything you do and when I try to do some of the aging technique it looks like it came out of the waste basket that a wet SU sponge fell into! OR it looks like Miss Daisy tried her paw at stamping. Thanks for blessing my day! ๐
A beauty! Reminds me of when we lived in a cabin in the mountains, I miss it so much!
I love how rich this looks in Vanilla.
Hugs, M
love, love, love this card!!!!! I need to make 200 xmas cards using this stamp set…can’t wait…thanks for sharing!!!!
Love the way you did the snowflakes! It’s a very pretty card. Someone who receives it is going to love it!
Ann this is gorgeous! OMG LOVE how you did the cabin.How cool is that! The snowflakes & pearls are fabulous and love love love this look. Hugs.
You make some of the most stunningly beautiful cards! Thank you so much for your inspiration! (But when I see your beautiful cards, I’m too intimidated to try and case it! Such beauty!)
looks like this is a mansion, all lit with white lights on a crisp winter evening; too beautiful or what? I didn’t think you had anything ordinary hidden with your preview! it’s beautiful!!
Beautiful Ann and a lot of work. You are certainly back in your element, with the distressing, sponging, pearls and spritzing.
Marvelous Christmas card!
I love how you used Snow Burst as a frame – very effective!
I can only repeat what has already been said. the card is fabulous! I love the pearls on the snowflakes. These snowflakes remind me of a card I did last year. I have to look it up and perhaps redo with pearls! Thanks for all your wonderful creations!
I knew I’d love this….wowza is right!!! you are truly amazing Ann ~ thanks so much for sharing this!!!! May I CASE you!!!! Have a wonderful day
Simply stunning and amazing! I have always found that at least half of my card is planning time and that’s why everything seems to take so long for even the easy projects. It really is as simple as you say, once you have the idea and pieces gathered. Thanks for the awesome inspiration!
Ann, you showcased another top notch, stunning card! OMGosh, I love love love this!
Oooh, dirty snowflakes! I love it! ๐ LOL (very elegant, Ann)
Just gorgeous! Love all the texture and the distressing with crumb cake on the white! Those snowflakes with the pearls are just stunning! Another fabulous creation! I agree with several others, I wish I had even a tiny bit of the talent and creativity that you have!
This is gorgeous Ann….I have a feeling I won’t be able to get this card out of my head when I finally ink up my image from this set! ๐
{SMILES}
When you gave us a peak yesterday, I KNEW the reveal was going to be stunning! I was right about that! WOW, Ann! What a beautiful creation.
Yep, it’s gorgeous! Love this technique. Really makes the embossed image POP! Love all the snowflakes, too. Stunning card, Ann!
WOW Such a Beautiful card.
Them pearls really make them snowflakes stand out.
Wish I had just 1/2 the talent as you.
ColleenB.
I love the white and the crumb cake together…almost gives it a dreamscape feel. Really beautiful. And those snowflakes! Yummy!
wowza, i wish i wish i wish i had just a 10th of your design ideas….I love your blog and enjoy hearing about the twins….blessings to you!
Deb