Dotty

Hands up if your card always turns out as you'd expect. 
This was going to be CAS with an all white background. I found this dotty paper and all was lost!

I started as I'd planned by sponging green ink onto some scraps, stamping the snowflakes and die cutting the circles. Of course, I could have started with green card. 
The I embossed the circles twice with clear powder and added a tiny bit of glitter before heating a second time. 
Then I fiddled about die cutting the strip to go behind not realising that most of it would be hidden. 

What I've finished up with here is a modern looking card so I popped the sentiment on sideways to continue the theme. 

I learnt this trick on You Tube this week. I'm sure you all do this anyway but it was a revelation for me. Tape a bit of scrap paper onto your shape while you heat emboss to use as a handle. No burnt fingers or finger prints in the embossing!

I'm running in to Pixie's Snippets Playground. I've used snippets for the circles and sentiment and also a piece of patterned paper which I have a stack of and don't use much. Now I have two more snippets of the dotty paper! 
Also checking in with Scrappy Mo's Rudolf Days challenge just at the last minute. Anything goes as long as it's Christmas. 

Stencil from die-cut.

Hello everyone. 

I've finally managed to make a card I'm happy with after a bit of dry spell of feeling uninspired. Now I can't wait to get on and make some more. There is a storm on the way tomorrow so perhaps that is the perfect opportunity to stay in with stamps. 

I took inspiration from 

 I rooted through my box of dies to choose one which would work for this technique. 

 I chose this bubble/circle die which I have not used nearly enough. It's one of those I bought and then forgot why I'd chosen it. I like the fact that you get all the little circles to and I save them though I don't really know why.

Holding down the two pieces of stencil was a little fiddly and there was no where to tape it down. I should have tried to gently stick it. I think I got away with it, though. 

I sponged through it with green, blue and yellow ink. Then I decided to use some of the little circles so I inked them using the same colours and added Glossy Accents. 
When they were dry I popped some into the shapes with a few extra for accents. 

So I've used a die to make the stencil and then used: inking, stamping, more die cutting and glossy accents. Plus using up the scraps which must count for something!

I don't have many stencils but I would like to get some more. I'll also try this again. 

I can't wait to visit the cards from the DT and also the entries which are inspiring but must do some cooking first!
Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x