I got the idea for this background from the Tim Holtz website via Pinterest. It looked easy, wintery, and I wanted to give it a try. But I had some issues. I wanted to use the same ink colors as the website but had problems finding one of the colors. And I couldn't find a small brayer.
For this technique you stamp your distress ink pads on the craft, mist with water, roll the brayer thru the ink, and roll onto paper. I like that it looked like a dreary winter day. I ended up ordering the small brayer online because I couldn't find one locally and I didn't like the look from my large brayer.
On the website they splatter some silver paint on the tag. I like the idea so I reused some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist spray. It is not as dark but worked.
I wanted to add some text and thought about buying a "Let it snow" stamp. But I made this card in September and couldn't find one. I searched the web for a quote about snow. The one I used says, "Snowflakes are kisses from heaven." I printed them off my printer, drew the black box around the edge, cut them out and glued them on with a glue stick.
My stamp for the card is a simple snowflake. I probably should have carved a fancier snowflake. I stamped & embossed them, cut them out and glued them on. For some of the cards I rubbed a silver Sharpe around the edge. I didn't do it to all the cards because I wasn't sure if I liked it. I guess my cards are more winter than Christmas but I really wanted to play with this background. I think they turned out ok.
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