I love the inlaid die cut technique so I was very much inspired to play along in this week's MUSE challenge but whilst I stuck to the layout and stripes on the original I twisted the colours up using the Paper Players colours (although my dark blue isn't quite right as I don't have that colour) and I decided to get all Christmassy with snowflakes.....
I used one of the dies from the Swedish Ice Star set from Marianne Design and die cut it from some pool party card. I stamped some stripes (Clearly Besotted) using the darker ink onto a strip of white narrower than my base card and die cut the snowflake again (keeping the little bitty triangles this time so I could piece them back in to the gaps in the snowflake centre. I added a little snowflake sequin for a tiny hint of bling and a sentiment from Waltzingmouse.
For the base card I stamped and embossed (as it turns out with pretty rubbish clear powder!) some snowflakes from Verve stamps and then sponged the two inks over and blended them together. I really wanted them to stay white but despite getting good coverage the embossing really didn't resist the ink very well at all but I do quite like the soft effect I've been left with so I decided to pretend that was the look I was going for all along ;-)
Here are the challenges I was inspired by:
http://musecardclub.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/muse-challenge-39.html
http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/pp167-jaydees-color-challenge.html
I used one of the dies from the Swedish Ice Star set from Marianne Design and die cut it from some pool party card. I stamped some stripes (Clearly Besotted) using the darker ink onto a strip of white narrower than my base card and die cut the snowflake again (keeping the little bitty triangles this time so I could piece them back in to the gaps in the snowflake centre. I added a little snowflake sequin for a tiny hint of bling and a sentiment from Waltzingmouse.
For the base card I stamped and embossed (as it turns out with pretty rubbish clear powder!) some snowflakes from Verve stamps and then sponged the two inks over and blended them together. I really wanted them to stay white but despite getting good coverage the embossing really didn't resist the ink very well at all but I do quite like the soft effect I've been left with so I decided to pretend that was the look I was going for all along ;-)
Here are the challenges I was inspired by:
http://musecardclub.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/muse-challenge-39.html
http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/pp167-jaydees-color-challenge.html
