Snowflake Wishes

February is here and that means it's the start of a new challenge at the Four Seasons challenge blog. It's still winter up here in the Northern hemisphere so we have another wonderful winter mood board to inspire you. As always, the use of the mood board is optional as Anything Winter Goes. 

And here is what I made:

I immediately had this Penny Black tree/fence stamp (Restful) in mind when I saw the mood board so that is what I used along with a really old little snowman stamp from Stampin Up. To go with the top left image I used mainly browns for my card but decided to color the birds red for a pop of color along with the snowman's scarf. I used waterbased markers and Distress ink to stamp the tree/fence image. A stamping tool was definitely a must-have tool here. After this step was complete I cleaned off the stamp while it was still on my stamp platform then stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed using clear embossing powder so I could add some ink to the sky with a blending tool. The snowman was stamped on a scrap piece and fussy cut. I wanted a little more interest on the background so I used one of my favorite winter word stamps - Snow Falls - from Lavinia stamps. 

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A couple of die cut snowflakes (Penny Black Dancing Snowflakes) and the small sentiment from the Penny Black set Holiday Snippets finish off the card. Oh, and I also used my white Posca pen to add some snow flurries but unfortunately some turned brown from sponging. I usually do this step after sponging (and I did that here too) but I decided to trim some more off of the edges and had to re-ink the edges. 

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I plan to share with these challenges:

• The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up - AG Christmas
• Classic Design Challenge - Winter Fun
• Crafty Gals Corner - Snow
• FarmQuest Country Christmas Challenge - Rural/Outdoors 
• Little Red Wagon - A for Anything Goes
• Penny Black Saturday - AG with PB stamps
• Simon Says Stamps - AG
• Sisterhood of Crafters - Snowflakes

Always Anything Goes Challenges/Link Parties

• Ally's Angels 
• A Perfect Time To Craft
• Crafts Galore Encore
• DL.Art Linky Challenge
• Talk About it Tuesday at Slices of Life
• The Paper Funday