Winter Greetings

Hi everyone! BlogStar Yana Smakula here!

I have to admit, I’m in love with Stampendous stamps! The SSC1148 Kiddo Snow Globe in particular – little girl and snowflakes are just so adorable!

Lately I have been playing a lot with this stamp set trying to create a few winter cards. Here’s one of the cards I came up with:

Its a fairly simple card with a bit of stamping, masking and some copic colouring.

Here are a few step by step photos and instructions:

1. I started by stamping a little girl on 3 3/4 by 5 1/4 inches piece of white cardstock. To create a mask I used one of my practice images – I cut out the girl leaving a small border around the image:

2. I placed the mask on top of the stamped image and randomly stamped snowflakes on the card. To secure the mask in place I used washi tape, although removable adhesive or masking tape would have worked a lot better for this, but I didn’t have any on hand at that time:

After I removed the mask I ended up having this background:

3. Now on to colouring. I used B00 to colour the snowflakes:

 

And C1 to outline the snowflakes:

And finally I coloured the girl:

4. To finish the card I added a stamped sentiment to the upper right corner:

And some stitching here and there. I also adhered a few gems:

Here’s a full list of supplies used to create the card:

• SSC1148 Kiddo Snow Globe and Snowy Short Stacks stamp sets;
• StazOn ink in black and Copic markers;
• White cardstock (Dovecraft);
• Blue cardstock (Coredinations);
• Gems (Dovecraft);
• Washi tape (Dovecraft).