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.
Sweet card, May.
Wow, this card looks clean but elegant. GREAT work !
What a wonderful card!
Love the blue color :)
Very elegant and I am partial to snowflake cards and this one uses a great technique. Great job, May.
Oh wow, what a beautiful card, lovin all the blues! :)
Beautiful!! LOVE the snowflakes!! TFS!
Very beautiful snowflake card, lovely colours ~
I love the blue hues and the embossing! Beautiful job!
This is a awesome card! I love the colors and can’t wait to make it.
Love the snowflakes.
what a gorgeous card… love the soft blues!
Lovely! I really like these winter colours!
May, you are broadening my artistic endeavors. I LOVE your style. I must, I must, I must!
Beautiful card :)
the colours are brilliant.
Very glamorous and elegant card. It packs a lot of impact with an intermediate level of work.
Great design for a card series. Cheers
Gorgeous card, love the embossed sentiment and different blues. x
Wow this looks awesome!
I love the colors on this card!
Great card!!
Love the snowflake stamp! Also lovely cards:)
Great card, May. Great way to highlight a large sentiment. I may borrow this idea. Thanks
this is beautiful… love the shades of blue…
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
Great card. Love this technique
Beautiful card, May! Love the embossed texture.
I Love This May! Will try something similar tonight! You have definitely inspired me! Thank you for doing this!
Very ethereal colors,
Love the embossing
LOVE this, May! Snowflakes are so appealing to me, and your card shows them off perfectly!
Beautiful!! Thanks for the tutorial!
Elegant, beautiful and so simple. Totally gorgeous.
Very pretty with the blue tones. Thanks for sharing.
That giant snowflake is fabulous! !
Awesome embossing and snowflake!! Very pretty!!
What a fun card. My husband and I loved the movie Frozen. I already follow by email.
Lovely Christmas card. I follow the blog by email.
LOVE the layered snowflakes and sentiment!!!
Super Cute!!
Gorgeous blue snowflake card!
Fabulous layering of colors and images!
LOVE the blues and the snowflakes!
Looks so wintery! Just beautiful!
Wow, what a gorgeous card! I love the snowflakes and colors.
Adorable blue and pretty card….
So love your gorgeous card and thanks for such a great post with the detailed explanation of how you created the layers of color and dimension.
I lpve how you made a border around your card with blue stickles. I think that made your card stand out so nicely.
Love the snowflakes
Beautiful card! Love the colors you used!
Great looking technique
and beautiful work!
Carla from Utah