Powertex landscape cards

I’d seen a few “small square on a card base” Christmas card designs go past on blogs and Pinterest, so that’s where the basic layout for these came from. Other than that, I just wanted to create little wintery landscapes.

To make it a bit different, I decided to use some Powertex.

“Powertex is the environmentally friendly, water-based textile hardener which can harden absorbent materials such as textiles, fabric, cloth, paper, cardboard, fabrics, leather and fiberglass.”

In this case, I cut some squares and hill shapes out of cotton, smushed them in some white Powertex, squeezed them out, and coloured the background square blue. Then I layered the hills over the top and left them to dry.

The houses and trees were die-cut from coloured metal sheet. I attached small pieces of gold metallic card behind the houses to create a glow in the windows and used the same card to die-cut the stars.

Once everything was assembled, I realised the hills needed a bit more definition and painted on some shadows. I bought the black sparkly card bases on a whim, but I think they work really nicely here.

Supplies:

• dies:
  Mama Elephant – home collection
• colour:
  The Secret Art Loft mixed media ink – aqua
  Golden fluid acrylic – Payne’s gray
• paper and card:
  Papermill Direct Charcoal Black Pure Sparkle Card Blanks
  gold metallic card
• miscellaneous:
  white cotton
  Spellbinders premium craft foils – jewel tones
  white Powertex