Another Wednesday, so welcome to my post for this week’s CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge. Blue is my favourite colour so I’m really happy to be entering a project for this week’s challenge.
I decided to keep to a Christmas theme and used three Stampin’ Up! blues – Island Indigo, Night of Navy and Pool Party.
The card is simply one layer and I used a piece of Shimmery White cardstock for it.
The card was very easy to make. Basic instructions are:
- Cut a piece of A4 Shimmery White cardstock down it’s length to give a piece measuring 10.5 cm x 29.8 cm
- Score the Shimmery White cardstock at 14.9 cm and then fold and burnish the fold with a Bone Folder.
- Stamp sentiment in bottom right corner (I used Night of Navy) and leave to dry for a minute or two.
- Mask off with Washi Tape the left edge (about 0.5 cm in) of the card and put another strip about 4.5 cm in from the left edge. This leaves you a 4.0 cm width to stamp in.
- Stamp images within the 4.0 cm width. I used the Flurry of Wishes stamp set and Island Indigo, Night of Navy and Pool Party coloured inks..
- Once dry, peel off the Washi Tape.
- I added a large Basic Rhinestone to the middle of the largest snowflake.
- I also stamped the inside of the card.
I hope you like the card and that you give this technique a go. It’s a very quick and effective way of making a card – just what you need when you are making lots of Christmas cards.
As always, please feel free to leave a comment.
Fiona xx
If you are interested, details of the products that I used are as follows:
Snowflakes are always a good choice to stamp in a trio of blue 🙂 FAB CAS design and thanks for joining in on the celebration at CC&S. Hugs Bev x
Don't you just love the shimmery cardstock? It's wonderful for making snowflakes glisten like you've done with it here! Thanks so much for participating in our birthday challenge at CC&S! 🙂
P.S. I have a feeling you may like our next sketch challenge… 😉
Very pretty! I love the stripe of snowlakes and the little touch of stamping on the inside! Thanks for playing along with us at CC&S!