Sweet Snow Friends - Purple Onion Designs

I have a new card for Purple Onion Designs today featuring the image 'Sweet Snow Friends' from 'The Sweetest Little Town' collection illustrated by Stacey Yacula.

To create this vintage feeling card I grabbed a panel of kraft cardstock.  I stamped the image using Memento Ink and for the sky I used a couple of toning green Copic markers and I used a combination of Prismacolor pencils and Copics to colour the images and snowy ground.

I used a white gel pen to highlight a few points on the main image.

I took my embossing buddy and thoroughly brushed the panel of cardstock and began using a snowfall image from the 'A Charming Winter' collection and using Versamark Ink I stamped and turned and stamped and turned this way and that way until I had gone over the entire panel. I then used superfine white embossing powder and heat set the pretty snowfall.

When I was stamping the snowfall I made sure to avoid the characters and chose to add snow using a white gel pen over them so that I had full control of where it 'fell'.   Make sure to nick the lines of the image you are covering with snow for a more realistic look.

I stamped and embossed the sentiment to a strip of kraft cardstock and added this with foam tape to this otherwise one layer card with no other embellishment.

I trimmed the panel slightly and layered it over a white panel which in turn was applied to a card base.  Card complete!

Happy crafting!

Snowfetti - Illustrated by Julian Charlton for Purple Onion Design's Winter Release

Hello!  Today I have a CAS card for the brand new Winter release by Julian Charlton illustrating for Purple Onion Designs.   This card features Elliot and Marcel and the image is one of four for this release and this one is called 'Snowfetti'.   Release goes live Black Friday the 27th November along with Purple Onion's big sale.

This simple card started with stamping the Snowfetti image using Memento Ink in Rich Cocoa on to kraft cardstock.  I used Prismacolor colouring pencils to colour the images giving them a lovely soft appearance and I made the elephant character a little 'hairy' since I think elephants that are hairy are so cute with their fuzz!

Points were highlighted with a white gel pen and the panel was stamped with the sentiment using Versamark Ink and heat embossed in white.

I then trimmed the panel and layered it over a red panel of cardstock and attached this to a white cardstock base.

To finish up I used Nuvo Stone Drops in Chalk White for my lovely 'snowfetti' which is super dimensional and has a slight granular appearance rather than being glossy, just a for a nice change.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!