I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas

Hi folks, it's true...I am dreaming of a White Christmas. It's been one very hot, hot, hot Summer so far, if only we could turn down the temperature just a notch because it's too hot to work in the garden, too hot to be in the cubbyhole, too hot to get a decent night's sleep, too hot for our usual doggy strolls, in fact, it's too hot to do much of anything. So this crafter and her stir crazy furry partner are dreaming of cooler Autumn days, chilly Winter mornings and fingers crossed...a White Christmas.
With that in mind, I decided to turn some "just having a play" Alcohol Lift backgrounds into cards and make a start on filling up the Christmas Card box.

I trimmed Distress Yupo White Heavystock and Distress Watercolor card to size

added drops of Stream, Pistachio and Amethyst Alcohol Inks to the Yupo panel and blew through a straw to move the colour around.

I added a few drops of Blending Solution to the felt pad on a mini round blending tool and tapped lightly until I was happy with the background.

I stamped the snowflake image from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Mini Swirly Snowflakes inked with Alcohol Lift Ink on to the Yupo paper, dabbed with a paper towel to remove the excess ink, buffed with a clean cloth and then stamped on to Distress Watercolor card transferring the ink lifted from the Yupo paper. I repeated this process until I had filled the background and used the same technque with the sentiment from Tim/Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Holiday Drawings. I trimmed the panels diagonally, applied splatters of White Gesso to the Yupo paper , coloured the Distress Watercolor card panel lightly with Tumbled Glass using a mini round blending tool and added Wilted Violet splatters.

I added the panels to white cardstock leaving a space larger enough to stamp the sentiment from Holiday Drawings

I trimmed white cardstock to be slightly larger than the panels and stamped the Plaid Background from Tim Holtz/Stampers Plaid & Nordic inked with Broken China/Wilted Violet and Blueprint Sketch/Lucky Clover Distress Oxide inks.

I coloured a scrap of Distress Watercolor card with the same combination of Distress Oxide inks as I used for the plaid background, spritzed with water and stamped the snowflake images with Black Soot Archival ink.

I die-cut the snowflakes using the matching Sizzix Framelits, added white highlights with a Sakura Gelly Roll Pen and brads from my stash

I did a little bit of machine stitching around the edges of the panels,

added double twine bows and fixed the snowflakes in place with Tim Holtz/Sizzix Mini Foam to create dimension. I matted the panels on to Classic Kraftstock and Kraft-Core Core-dinations and fixed to white card blanks.

Today I'm hoping to have a play day with the August Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp, have fun whatever you're creating.

Toodle-oo for now
Hugs Kath xxx