I began by inking a panel of Strathmore Mixed Media paper with my Distress inks (minus Black Soot). I just kind of splotched the color on, making sure to get plenty of each hue on my panel. I did use a little less of the Chipped Sapphire, after I discovered it created kind of a muddy grey-brown when it overlapped the Twisted Citron.
After I had fully inked my panel, I let it air dry for several hours. (I could have heat set it to speed the drying, but I had other things to do anyway.) Then I used My Favorite Things' "Sophisticated Snowflakes" stamp set (discontinued) to stamp several snowflakes in Versamark ink over the panel. Since I couldn't see the stamping, as I went I sprinkled Ranger Clear Super Fine Detail embossing powder on each image. After I had stamped all the snowflakes, I melted the powder with my heat tool.
I inked over the whole panel with Black Soot. After I had added a few "coats" of black, I buffed over the panel with a dry paper towel, to remove the excess ink from the embossed snowflakes.
To cut the curve in my panel, I used a flexible ruler & pencil to sketch out the curve on the back side, so it matched the sketch. (I did make sure to reverse the curve direction, since I was working on the back of the panel.) To keep the snowflake design looking continuous, I made sure to draw two parallel curves about 1/2" apart so I could cut a slice out. Then I used scissors to cut along the lines.
For the greeting, I used the long "be merry" from Lawn Fawn's "Peace Joy Love" stamp set (discontinued). I traced the curved line from one of my main panel pieces onto a piece of white cardstock. I used that as a guide to help me curve my greeting onto the door of my MISTI. Finally, I stamped it in Ranger Cobalt Archival ink and erased my pencil line.
I adhered my greeting panel to a white A2-size card base. I used craft foam & double-sided tape to pop up my snowflake pieces above & below the greeting, and this card was done! A fairly easy card to pull together overall, but with a lot of impact.
Date: Friday, September 6, 2019 GMT Views: 274
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Fri, Sep 06, 2019 @ 3:00 PM
Thanks for the tip of several coats of black. I consider this to be one of the less successful techniques I've tried, but seeing this encourages me to try again.