You can see the holly looks a little variegated, and that came about quite by accident.
I used white stencil paste, and a dark green glitter to start with, on the white card.
I maybe should have patted the glitter down a little harder at this stage, as after it had dried, and I was brushing off the excess to reduce the shedding, I ended up with quite a few white patches. Which led me to a couple of solutions.
Firstly, for the next card I coloured my white stencil paste with a green re-inker. Be very sparing with the ink you add- you don't want to make your stencil paste too runny. So try to pick a reinker close to the colour you want, rather than the usual method of starting light and adding ink to get darker.
Have a tub with a lid handy to save any excess paste in too.
I also decided to patch up the bare spaces using Indigo Blu's Flitter Glu through the original stencil.
Using a small piece of Cut'n'Dry foam to add the glue.
I re- attached the stencil, then worked my way around the bare patches.
Then I added a brighter shade of green glitter than I used the first time.
I used a mix of 3mm and 4mm ones.
There is also no greeting in this stencil, and I solved this by using a green marker to colour some silver Christmas Peel-offs. I'll get down them one way or another!
This was the wreaths on black card after a touch up.
Final addition was a torn corner of Christmas Paper- something else I have way too much of- and a little green ink sponged around the edge.The image was matted onto black card, both had their corners rounded, then mounted onto a 5x5 card base.
7 comments:
My preference is for the White card, but man, they look great, love the two glitter colours, gotta love a happy accident. I feel I need flitter glue in my Arsenal now..
I love the pale green on black card, it looks really effective :)
ALL are stunning!! and what's not to love about glitter....LOL
Stumbling onto the variegation of greens really gave the wreath a POW!!
Very cool! I think I like the black card ones best...
Another week flies by and here I am trying to visit a few Wednesday desks on Saturday!! Beautiful card - well worth the extra effort! I couldn't resist leaving my comment here instead of below! x Jo
Loving that holly on black!
Awesome tutorial for us, Shaz, and lovely cards! If you posted nothing else but Christmas cards all year, I'd be happy! xoxo, Aimeslee
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