Week 7 of 12 weeks of Christmas - Great Tidings meets smooching technique

Welcome to Week 7 of my 12 weeks of Christmas Cards.  This week's card is one of the cards that we made at Belair Creative Cards in October.

This project was so fun to make!!  The base is basic white and has a layer of misty moonlight.  It has a "window" cut out of the top using the Wise Men Tidings".  It's such a beautiful, eyecatching window which is useful for lots of different techniques.  The layer behind it is a piece of vellum and is inked using the smooching technique.  Use a new acrylic cutting plate from the Cut and Emboss die machine.  You can also use a glass cutting mat, a large clear block (which is larger than your piece of card) or a plate from your Stamparatus.  Use your stamp pad and ink directly to the plate.  I have used misty moonlight, Bermuda Bay, pacific point, pool party and gorgeous grape.  Spray with water using a Stampin' Spritzer.  Spray until the colours blend and lines disappear.  Now spray with some Isocol and the colour will bead.  Place your vellum on top of the colour, making sure that the entire piece is inked.  The vellum will curl, Dry with a heat gun, this will help straighten it out.  Attach to the back of the "window" and this gives you a pretty evening sky.  Die cut the Wise Men and colour with blends.  The sentiment is stamped in watermark and embossed with white embossing powder.  

Stamp set:  Great Tidings

Card:  basic white, misty moonlight, be dazzling (retired SAB), vellum

Ink:  misty moonlight, Bermuda Bay, Pacific Point, Pool Party, Gorgeous Grape, versamark

Accessories:  blends, white embossing powder, Wise Men Tidings dies

Shop for products to make this card here: -  https://s.tamp.in/V0Ns2D 

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  GREAT TIDINGS BUNDLE

  $75.50

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  MISTY MOONLIGHT CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD

  $13.00

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  MISTY MOONLIGHT A4 CARDSTOCK

  $15.25

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  VELLUM A4 CARDSTOCK

  $17.50

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  VERSAMARK PAD

  $16.50

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  PACIFIC POINT CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD

  $13.00

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  BERMUDA BAY CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD

  $13.00

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  POOL PARTY CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD

  $13.00

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  GORGEOUS GRAPE CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD

  $13.00

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  BASICS EMBOSSING POWDERS

  $31.00

Great Tidings meets CASEing the Catty Sunday Challenge - CTC337 - Step up a mini catalogue project

Todays project, I have chosen to do a challenge.  Challenges are great to get the creative juices flowing and the CASEing the Catty Sunday Challenge is a great one to choose.  The challenge this week was to step up a project from the July-December 2021 mini catalogue CTC337.  I chose to step up the project on page 66 of the mini catalogue.  

To step up the project, I used the be dazzling specialty papers in the SAB catty.  

I also used a block with a dribble of whisper white reinker on it, with a squeeze of the wink of stella pen, which gives a nice sheen.  Mix it well with the wink of stella brush and then flick this ink on to your bottom layer.  It's a great way of making white splatter and gives a great effect. I also coloured in some of the bushes with this white wash.  The bushes were inked in versamark and clear embossed.

 

Stamp set:  Great Tidings

Ink:  versamark, whisper white reinker

Card:  soft succulent, be dazzling specialty paper, tidings of Christmas dsp, misty moonlight, night of navy, basic black, whisper white

Tools: wise men tidings dies, wink of stella