Delightful amongst the Frightful
When it comes to -holiday stamping, one thing I like to do is find fun ways to play with a lot of inks and colors while creating unique gifts and cards for my loved ones. May Flaum here, and today I’m excited to share with you some snowflake covered fun! With two Frozen obsessed girls here, I decided this holiday season I will be doing lots with snowflakes.
The first thing I like to do is to use white embossing powder to stamp and heat set an image or sentiment.
After you’ve heat set your image, begin stamping in various colors. I recommend an ink like distress ink that will easily rub off the embossed area and not stick.
What I love about this is you get dimension right from the start. I love doing this on gift tags and gift wrap as well as cards. Just keep stamping, and don’t worry about that embossed image in white.
Once you’ve got enough stamped images in various colors, come back with a foam blending tool and softly add light colors. Start from the embossed image so that it is the most vibrant and gives contrast under the image to help it pop.
I stuck to shades of blue, but you could create with any variety of colors! Once satisfied with your coloring the fun can really begin! What I love about having a motif like snowflakes is that I can then add different products to add in texture and dimension! I die cut (from vellum) some snowflakes, used some sequins, and also brought in some stickles and gems to finish things up.
I love how this turned out, and how much fun I had! I often work onto cards like this when creating with some new products and ideas, then branch out into other projects.
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Great idea! I think you could let the kids help on stamping snwflakes once the embossing is on. Really vibrant finished card.
Love it! Snowflakes make the most beautiful cards.
Great card. I love icy blue colouring for Christmas cards!
Super gorgeous. ..love those snowflake sequins.
Beautiful card, thanks for the details!
So gorgeous! Such a fun play, thanks for showing me how!~kim
awsome effect….
Looks like lotsa fun May! Your productions are very unique!
Lovely background!
cute card!
I love the magic of emboss resist and your blues are so lovely.
Love the fun snowflakes!
Beautiful!
oh that’s pretty cool!! great card :)
What wonderful ideas. I love the soft colors and I am thrilled to know it rubs off the embossing. I really have to try this! Thanks!
Pretty card and thanks for sharing! I am also making a blue snowflake-themed Christmas card and I love these ideas!
Gorgeous card!!! I LOVE it! The colors, the embossed sentiment, the snowflakes and the gems are so amazing! Thank you for the inspiration!
Yes Frozen is everywhere…love this card and the cool colours.
Great card! TFS ;-)
WOW how pretty :-D I love blue color :-D Thank you so much for sharing :-D
Wonderful card. I do like resist techniques.
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Beautiful card, and I LOVE all the blues!
Love all the layers and the vellum snowflake is a lovely finishing touch. Hugz
Great techniques. Turned out beautiful!
Beautiful card! I’m so CASEing this! :)
Great tips for stamping on embossed images! Beautiful card!
Love those pretty snowflakes!
Such fun techniques! Gorgeous card, May! Love those beautiful colors!
Fantastic idea. Love your card and the colors. You always offer unique creative avenues.
So pretty.
This is LOVELY!!! Thanks for the help in trying to figure out WHAT to do with those Snowflake stamps! LOL (Need all the help we can get!) :D
Emboss resist is like magic on this. Looks beautiful.
Great tip. Thanks.
What an absolutely GORGEOUS card!!!
Gorgeous, love all the blues and the fun sparkle!
Beautiful snowflakes! Love the embossed sentiment!
I think every home has frozen fans. Even my 16 year old!
Love the snowflakes great card !!!!
I have been wondering how I could create some lovely flat Christmas cards with my stamps so thank you very much May – I will be CASE’ing your lovely card with the stamps and inks I own. However I LURVE that large snowflake stamp and those lovely shades of blue too! Thanks for sharing, already subscribe Karen x
Happy, festive, beautiful card! Thanks for the inspiration!
I love your colors and the design!
Beautiful card and colors–funny, I’m using the same color theme in my Christmas cards this year.
Lovely card and great idea. I was struggling with a card I had embossed and couldn’t get it right. This gives me an idea of how to finish it. It will look nothing like yours but the technique will work and maybe, save the day! :) Thanks!
pretty! love those colors!
I think this icy blue look is so beautiful!
I always love May’s work! This card is beautiful! Thank you
What a sweet card. Thank you May for sharing with us. Love the snowflakes and the blues.
This card is gorgeous!! I love the distress colors, and the large greeting!!
Thanks for the inspiration. I’ve been toying with the idea of using blue, and snowflakes on my cards this year. Great ideas, using more than one media is right up my alley. Your work is very unique.
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