Snowy Night Sleigh Ride

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Practice makes perfect, or at least acceptable... so, let me tell you what my practice revealed so you can achieve a better look sooner than I did.

Here we have the end result.  Nice snowflakes falling, bright and beautiful, no fuzzies and a beautiful moonlight ride.

Here we have what happens when your White Craft ink pad needs more ink and you don't wait long enough after stamping the trees to put on your embossing powder!

Granted, it makes the trees seem like they are covered with snow, but I wanted to be able to SEE the trees.  So, if this look is good for you, use white embossing powder before the black (memento used here) is dried.

I started with a piece of Whisper White card stock 5" x 3 7/8".  I used a post-it note and punched a 1 1/4" circle out - being sure to punch so part of the sticky part is in the circle.  Lay that on your card stock where you want your moon.  I used Night of Navy with our Sponge Daubers and swirled the ink onto the the Whisper White, careful not to let my post it note come up at all to leave a nice clean circle below.  (** I don't recommend our sponge for this project, the Daubers work so much better.**)

After I had the Night of Navy the way I liked it, I added Island Indigo to give a little more color to the night sky.  Remove the post-it note and sponge the moon with Tangerine Tango and Daffodil Delight.  Play with the colors - find something that you like best.  Each card can be different.  

Stamp the four-tree stamp from Lovely as a Tree, being sure to stamp over the moon a bit.  BE SURE THE BLACK INK DRIES COMPLETELY.

Then, using a well inked White Craft ink pad, stamp stars from Jingle All the Way onto the background where you want them, immediately adding White Embossing Powder.  Tap off all excess powder and heat set with your Heat Tool.

Cut out the Sled and Horse from Sleigh Ride Edgelits and place it over your card.  Remember to place a little glue under the sled and the horse so they stay down as well.

Thank you for looking in today.  

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~ Donna

Sleigh Ride Christmas

We finally had some rain and are aiming for cooler temperatures in Phoenix on Saturday, so I decided to do a little Christmas.  Sadly, it's still 78 degrees at the time of writing this (11:00 p.m. Saturday), but it's better than still being at 100 degrees!

Maybe some snow on my cards will help!

Recipe:
Whisper White Thick Card Stock base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", scored at 4 1/4"
Whisper White cut to 4" wide and then die cut with Sleigh Ride Edgelits Dies
Gold Foil card stock cut to 4" wide and again die cut with Sleigh Ride Edgelits for the houses and the trees
Holidays Fancy Foil Designer Vellum (snowflakes) 4" wide and long enough to just go under the houses.

Since Vellum  doesn't hide adhesive, at all, I put our mini glue dots behind the snowflakes as close to the edge as possible and then covered with Rhinestone Jewels.  If there was no snowflake near the corner, I added one and placed a jewel over it as a star.

I think next time instead of the Gold Foil, I'll use the Silver Foil to match the snowflakes.  What do you think?

Thank you for looking in today.  Have a Blessed Sunday!

~ Donna

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