Afternoon peeps.
Can you believe we are already halfway through NOVEMBER!! Christmas will be upon us before we know it. Well over at Color Hues, Nancy has chosen a colour duo that might help with those Christmas makes, here's what I made.
My wonderful bloggy friend Loll, one of our GDs, and her group of 7 cardmakers are using textured tissue paper and hilighted embossing for their technique this month, so I thought I would have a play.
I found some white, thickish tissue in my tissue drawer, yes I do have such a thing, you never know when you are going to need it!
On my craft mat I smooshed some Galactic Stream and Teal Cave inks from Altenew with a spritz of water and added my square of tissue. It proved to be quite strong so I could move it around to get good coverage. When dry I added it to some white card with PVA then when that panel was dry, I embossed it with an EF. The technique works best with a deep embossing folder but this was a freebie, Crafters Companion I believe, just a plain old EF.
It says to use a brayer but I used some Inca Gold silver wax which I added carefully with my finger tip to the raised areas.
The panel was then trimmed and added to an A6 top fold, white, note card and finished off with a couple of strips of silver glitter card from some crackers from a couple of Christmases ago and a Uniko sentiment stamped in more Galactic Stream.
So what will you make with these colours? If you need more inspiration, please check out the rest of the team here as well as our TWO GDs Loll and Joanne, then why not join us?
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Lovely card Julie and your tissue technique is amazing, you did a great job with it, wow! Anything with snowflakes makes me so happy!!
ReplyDeleteOoh, what a fab technique and colour on this lovely Christmas card Julie!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous background and then card, Julie! I too have a tissue drawer, and a bow drawer and a box drawer...etc. LOL Wonderful technique and inspiring Christmas card!
ReplyDeleteTerrific CAS design, this is lovely!
ReplyDeleteIsn't this technique fun! [I played too] - Very pretty in the colors too. Thanks for joining in at JUGS
ReplyDeleteWOW! Your card is GORGEOUS, Jules! I love the textured, watercolour tissue with the beautiful silver snowflakes. Great idea to use Inka Gold silver paste. Lovely design with the strips of glitter silver at the top. Thanks for sharing your card with us at Group of Cardmakers! xx
ReplyDeleteThat tissue technique surely resulted in a fabulous background! I love the silver wax you added. It made those beautiful snowflakes just pop! This is one gorgeous Christmas card!
ReplyDeleteWOW, this card is GORGEOUS Julie!! Your tissue technique background is STUNNING with the embossed snowflakes and bits of silver to the raised areas! CAS and so SO lovely my friend!! Hugs. :0)
ReplyDeleteFabulously colourful result with your gorgeous background Julie. I bet the silver just pops out beatifully IRL. Thanks for sharing this with us at JUGS'
ReplyDeleteOhmystars...or rather, ohmysnowflakes! The results of your tissue technique quite literally blow me away. Stunning!
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Gorgeous snowflakes, Julie, and I love that you've done them on tissue! This is a gorgeous card!
ReplyDeleteI saw that challenge and wasn't as brave as you to try it, Julie! Your results are exquisite; the teal smooshed piece looks fabulous and works beautifully with the embossed snowflakes. Love touches of silver too!
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