Snowflakes on red

Another pair of cards using the red Christmas masterboard. This time I added an extra layer of stamping on the background and then decorated it with die cuts.

These were both assembled from things already in my stash. I had die-cut some sentiments and snowflakes at the same time I made the masterboards. I just hadn’t planned on leaving it quite so long before putting them all together.

I stamped the music background in black on one and grey on the other.

As neither the white nor black sentiments seemed to work right on such a busy background, I coloured the white ones silver and offset layered them over the black ones — the effect is still quite subtle (especially in low light which is all we seem to have here at the moment) but I’m happy with it.

I gave the snowflakes a light coat of Wink of Stella and arranged them over the cards. The final touch was the addition of white faux stitching around the edges.

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Inkylicious – music background
• dies:
  Clearly Besotted – snowflake trio
  Creative Expressions – merry & bright
  Creative Expressions – let it snow
• inks:
  Ranger – archival – black
• pens:
  Sharpie – extra fine point paint marker – white
• embellishments:
  Wink of Stella – clear
  Wink of Luna – silver
• paper and card:
  Papermill Direct – pearlised – ultra white
  Papermill Direct – pearlised – natural white
  white card
  black card

Supplies – masterboard:

• stamps:
  Hero Arts – tiny flakes
  Create A Smile – snowflake whispers
  Create A Smile – color your polka
  Create A Smile – snow flurry
• inks:
  Distress ink pad – picket fence
  Delicata – golden glitz
  Delicata – silvery shimmer
  Ranger – archival – watering can
• paint:
  Dylusions – postbox red, white linen, cut grass
  Pebeo – iridescent gold