Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Winter Blues

Hello Classy Friends, Diane here with you today! This week our challenge theme is Winter Birds.

I have to admit, my card today is far from winter, but I just could not resist using this awesome stencil by Dreamweavers called Bird and Blossoms. I had a technique I wanted to try and this bird just kept calling to me, or should I say chirping!


But, before I get to my project, I wanted to share a real winter bird. I have had about 12 Cardinals at my feeders all at one time. I love seeing their bright red feathers against the white snow! 


Okay, back to the project. I used a gorgeous Metallic Silver embossing paste by Dreamweaver, applying it with my Palette Knife to black card stock.

Here is a photo of the image drying, it is pretty enough,
you could stop right there!


After the embossing paste was totally dry, I placed my stencil back over, after cleaning it of course), the embossed image, applied Perfect Medium, then applied Perfect Pearls with a small brush using the colors Mandarin, Jubilee Blue, and Sour Apple. This same technique can be done using VersaMark and Mica Powders. There are a few more steps after applying your powders, that I haven't gone into here.

The design papers I used are from Glitz Felicity. I added a baby blue bow and a beautiful Ribbon Slide. The finishing touches, were adding LaCreme Pearls to some of the flower centers!


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4 comments:

Dottie said...

JUST BEAUTIFUL LOVE YOUR BIRD

Diana Nguyen said...

Gorgeous! Now you have me adding silver embossing paste to my wish list.

KT Fit Kitty said...

Absolutely stunning!

nancy carroll said...

What a gorgeous card.