Hi everyone! Samantha here today out on the Pink and Main Blog so excited to share this cute card made with the new Snow Family Stamp Set.
When determining the color palette I want to work with for a card, I often let pattern paper dictate my colors. To start this card, I pulled out a sheet of pattern paper with a cable knit pattern from the new Cozy Winter Patterned Papers. I cut this sheet into two A2 sized panels, one for my card-base and the other to use on a later project. Next, I stamped my main images from the new Snow Family Stamp Set onto and A2 sized piece of Copic X-Press it paper in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I then stamped a second image onto a sheet of masking paper because I planned on ink-blending my background before coloring the main image with Copic markers.
After fussing cutting my mask, I adhered it to main image before doing a soft ink blending in Picked Raspberry and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Inks. I made sure to leave room at the bottom because I planned to add in a snowy ground for my family to stand on with my Copics. Once my background was inked up, I decided to also stamp in a few snowflake images from the Snow Family Stamp Set in Versamark Ink before adding onwhite embossing powder and setting it with my heat tool.
Next up… Time for coloring!
Using Copics, I colored all of my snowmen and their accessories in the purples, blues, and greens of my main pattern paper. To add in a fun detail, I decided to also do a little paper piecing on the scarf of my snowdad using a matching plaid from the Cozy Winter Patterned Papers. First, I stamped my snowmen image onto the patterned paper making sure to only ink up the scarf area around my snowdad and then, using my Copic Neutral Gray markers, I added shadows to the plaid scarf before fussing cutting it out and gluing it to my main image. Once my main image was complete I decided to add a little more snow using a white gel pen before finishing off the card.
To wrap things up, I die-cut my colored panel using the second largest frame die from my Stitched Rounded Rectangle Die Set. I then cut a mat from white cardstock using the Scallop Rectangle Dies before adhering the matted panel to my pattern-paper card-base. After adding everything to a folding A2-sized white card-base, I stamped a Happy Winter sentiment onto white cardstock in black ink and die cut it using a small flag banner die from the Card Cut Essentials Set 1 Dies. I adhered my sentiment, added a little purple heart embellishment from my stash, and my card was complete.
I just love this little snow family! I hope you do too.
Thanks for reading!