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Today’s sponsor company is the fabulous Flora and Fauna and I’m so excited to feature their stamps in my card today! I’m in love with their fun sketchy designs and you can see more cards I’ve created with their products here and here. Today I decided to do a little ink blending and embossing for a simple but peaceful winter scene. I started by blending black soot, seedless preserves, faded jeans, salty ocean, and broken china distress ink onto a panel of bristol smooth cardstock. I splattered it with water to create the illusion of big snowflakes in the distance of my scene. After that was dry I splattered it with copic opaque white paint to create closer snowflakes.
Next I stamped the trees from Arctic Starry Night onto the bottom of my panel with versamark and heat-embossed them with silver embossing powder. Then I stamped the sentiment and snowflake clusters with versamark and heat-embossed them with the same silver embossing powder. Finally I sprayed the entire panel with shimmer spray. It’s a very subtle shimmer but it’s really sparkly when it catches the light!
It’s not a party without a prize – and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today’s prize is generously supplied by Flora and Fauna so you’ll definitely want to win! Simply leave a comment on this post – then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too! You must leave a comment on Taheerah’s blog as well as mine in order to be eligible to win! Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more! You have until 11:59PM EST on December 31st, 2017 to enter.
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Your ink-blended sky is awesome.
A wonderfull card and the silver embossing looks great, have to try it out tooo.
Love the fun sketchy trees on such fabulous blended background, amazing!
What a great sky , your blending is fantastic, wish I could do that x
I love the way the sentiment totally brings the card together! Beautiful!
What a gorgeous background Jessica!
Beautiful blending! Perfect colours.
L*O*V*E your night sky; your ink blending is gorgeous. And all those little stars …
and the snow … so perfect. Gorgeous card.
Your blended background with little stars is mesmerizing… wow!
This is really pretty Jessica. The white embossed snowflakes look amazing on the richly coloured sky and the silver embossed trees really set it all off. Beautifully done as always.
What a gorgeous background! Beautiful card! Thank you for sharing with us 🙂
Love your beautiful card!
Your background colors & shading is always awesome!
I am always fascinated by the night sky! Your card is beautiful.
What a pretty background! Thanks for the inspiration!
So very pretty!!
Very cool! I love it!
This card is very beautiful. I love the background and may have to try it for myself.
I’m in love with your background! I need some new ink pads!!
Lovely ink blending with distress inks!
Such a gorgeous background! I love it.
love the stunning background – thanks for the ideas:)
Beautiful card.
Beautiful wintry sky, with gently falling snowflakes covering your pretty forest. I want to bundle up and go for a walk…So thrilled that you’re part of Taheerah’s Advent Extravaganza!
Hugs~carol
Love those tiny Christmas trees and your fabulous background!
Amazing background! really loving this card.