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Feb 1, 2025

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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12 comments:

  1. Pauline C04:34

    Gorgeous atmospheric winter scene Ellie, I love the colour scheme, it is unusual but really conveys a winter mood, and the PB stamp set is beautiful xx

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  2. Amy Johnson07:23

    The brown tones really represents winter. Such a serene card. Love the faded prose behind the tree.

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  3. Judy McKay22:38

    Beautiful card. Nicely design and lovely details. Thank you for joining us at Crafty Gals Corner this month. Hope to see your lovely art work back here again soon. Judy DT

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  4. Becca S00:52

    Brilliant clever interpretation of the moodboard photos into your wintery Christmas card! Awesome! I'd love to have that view out my kitchen window! But alas, I don't! My kitchen window looks out to our garages! :) Thanks for creating and sharing with FQCCCB! -- Becca

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  5. Lia04:09

    What a great winterscene. I like this a lot!!
    Lia xx

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  6. JanR08:55

    Fabulous card! Such a wonderful scene, I especially like the text in the background. Thanks for joining us at Little Red Wagon.

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  7. Mariann Jakobsen11:19

    Brilliant winter-card! Lovely colours, and i like the effect of your Posca pen. Awesome!
    Thanks for linking your card at Ally's Angels #90.

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  8. Pam Sparks11:42

    I love your card! Totally inspired!

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  9. Sue from Oregon01:34

    Such a great winter card with a nice vintage feel. Thanks for sharing with us at Penny Black Saturday Challenge! 💕 Sue Kment

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  10. DIANA L.13:18

    Beautiful Card!!
    Thank you for joining my DL.ART February 2025 and DL.ART Thankful Thursday linky challenge

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  11. Anke00:31

    WOW eine traumhaft schöne Karte, liebe Ellie. Der PB-Stempel ist so genial, aber noch viel genialer ist, was Du aus ihm gemacht hast. So goldig auch mit dem kleinen Schneemann, gefällt mir alles wahnsinnig gut.

    Winterliche Grüße
    von Anke

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  12. Darlene 15:36

    Such a FABULOUS wintry scene Ellie! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at the Sisterhood of Crafters challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.

    Darlene
    DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
    Sisterhood of Crafters Owner

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