Coppery Winter Woods

I'm so happy with the way this card turned out ... and it started out as the result of an accident!

An atmospheric Christmas card: A background of sponged Shimmer Paints with images from
Winter Woods and Dashing Deer stamp sets

The other week I was experimenting with the new Shimmer Paints (Bright Copper, Vegas Gold, Champagne Mist and White Frost).  I was attempting to pour a little of the copper onto the large acrylic block that I was using as a palette so that I could apply it my owl stamp with a sponge brayer (you can see the results of that here, here and here).  However, rather too much spilled out and, loathe to waste any, I thought about ways to use it.  So I used the sponge brayer to add some to the embossing in this card and then used the same brayer to apply some to a piece of Early Espresso card stock.

Since it was looking a bit dark, I then used the same brayer with some Vegas Gold Shimmer Paint  and then a tiny bit of Champagne Mist.

Once my shimmery background was dry, I used Jet Black Stazon ink to stamp the Pine tree from the Winter Woods stamp set.  Switching to the other tree image in the set, I stamped off and then stamped on to the background.  Having reinked the stamp, I then stamped again, lower and to the right and then added the deer from the Dashing Deer stamp set.  Hint:  Using the Stamparatus will allow you to stamp an image as many times as you like in the one spot to obtain a darker image.

To add a bit of contrasting highlight, I used a paint brush to apply some of the White Frost Shimmer Paint to the snowy parts of the pine tree and a little in the foreground.  I used a combination of light strokes and stippling.

I used the greeting from the Star of Light stamp set because it was a good size for this card.  It's copper heat embossed.

The base card is Basic black and there's a Sahara Sand layer.

Products from the Holiday Catalogue (sale period 5 September 2018 to 2 January 2019)
Winter Woods stamp set
Dashing Deer stamp set
Shimmer Paint in Vegas Gold, Bright Copper, Champagne Mist and White Frost

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - Available now in my online store

Early Espresso A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Sahara Sand A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Star Of Light Photopolymer Stamp Set

$45.00

Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad

$15.75

Versamark Pad

$15.00

Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

$8.75