Priscilla's Papercrafts: Christmas Night

Friday, December 4, 2020

Christmas Night

I almost never (and I mean NEVER) stamp a card using only stamps, ink and paper. And technically (more on that in a minute), I didn't do it for this card either 😁 But this is about as close as I get to #SimpleStamping:

But I LOVE it! 😍

And I got to use a new product, coming in January in the upcoming Mini Catalog - Blending Brushes. That's how I got that beautiful background!

I started with a piece of Whisper White cardstock. I punched a "moon" from a piece of sticky note and placed it in the "sky". And I had a piece of cardstock that I had previously cut using the Curvy dies, so I grabbed it to use as a mask. See that snow on the ground? That's where I put my mask. Then I got busy.

These are the new Blending Brushes. They come 3 to a pack (probably all you'll ever need). And they are super soft pompoms of hundreds of tiny bristles:

And SUPER soft! Makes me think I should be using these to put on my makeup! But I digress..

Anyway I laid my "snow" mask on the bottom of my cardstock and took my Blending Brush, rubbed it in Highland Heather ink and started to rub it just above the mask. I added a little more ink until I got a nice "haze" of ink, then I started in with another color - Misty Moonlight. I didn't clean my brush in between, just brushed it on a piece of scrap paper until I didn't see any more ink. And blended some more.

I repeated the process with one more color along the top part of the cardstock, using Night of Navy ink.

Once I was happy with the colors of my "sky" I used some Frost White Shimmer Paint in a Spritzer with a little rubbing alcohol and gave the cardstock a good spritz:

Can you see the shimmer? Hard to capture with a camera, but it's definitely there.

Then I removed the mask and the post-it circle:

And I had my background. The trees (from Snow Front and Merry Moose) were stamped in Tuxedo Black, as was the greeting from Itty Bitty Christmas.

I added a few of the Adhesive Backed Snowflakes (and THAT'S why this card would not qualify as #Simplestamping) and mounted it to a skinny layer of Basic Black and then to the Misty Moonlight card base.

And inside: