- Type of project: Greeting card
- Occasion: Christmas
- Style: Elegante
- Techniques used: Die cutting, Layering
- Decoration: Sticker borderlines, diy dots, Vellum
- Main colour: Baby pink/Creame white/Silver
- Equipment used: Die cutting Machine, Embossing Plates
- Other information you will like to include: Different kinds of silver, champagne and white glitter cardstock, pearlessent cardstock, design paper and canvas textured cardstock.
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I love silver and frosty glittery white. Those 2 “colors” alone goes wonderfully together, but are also so easy to match with a third nuance. Almost everything goes in my opinion – No, not yellow! But perhaps….that’s just me! Well, today I’ve chosen baby pink – the most subtle and pale pink, but since I use the color as background – made by a design paper, there are a few shades of other colors.
I wanted to make a card for a princess – not of a certain age – but nevertheless a princess through and through.
I had an idea to use a large swirly and very elegant die set designed by Becca Feeken from Spellbinders. (the very first die set, I bought 6-7 years ago)
I wanted a die cutted Christmas greeting in the middle. To make the background behind the text a bit more calm, I made a belt of vellum around the pink layer of design paper.
Next layer is actually a double layer of the swirly diecut – a white and a silver one, with the white one a bit offset behind the silver layer. The white layer is a kind of opposite shadow and makes the silver look even more shiny.
I did the same with the sentiment – but put a silver layer a bit offset behind a front layer of pearlessent kind of gun powder grey to shine up the text.
Then snowflakes – I love snowflakes! I’ve used different dies to cut different elegant forms of small snowflakes out of idifferent shades of glitter cardstock. Silver, white and champagne to match the design paper. The snowflakes are both stucked in and put on top of the swirly beauty.
To make even smaller glitzs of glittery frost, I’ve used both small leftover (negatives) dots from the snowflakes and to get some a bit larger ones, I’ve used my pliers, which are actually to make holes in leather, to make dots out of the same material as the snowflakes.
I’m a huge fan of borders on cards and eventhough the layering makes one, I thought it would make harmony to make a smal one in silver too and then used a sticker borderline.
To finish the card, I made the base in a creame white canvas textured cardstock and made a layer of foam to lift the top layers and glued the bottom and top together.
The card ended up being 13,5 x 21 cm.
I wish all of you a very wonderful and blessed winter start – perhaps with a bit of Princess frost!
HeidiM
Heidi-Birgitte Mortensen is from Denmark. She has been writing for TPC since 2021. Heidi-Birgitte started paper crafting in 2016 and she makes cards, 3D and Mixed Media projects. Her paper projects are often made in Rustic, Vintage or Retro style.