Indigoblu Challenge December 2016 Snow

Indigoblu Challenge - 'Snow'

December 2016

'Snowballs'

This is my contribution to the latest Indigoblu challenge. A number of stamps appropriate to the theme I had actually used in previous but recent challenges therefore it was back to the drawing board and thinking cap on! I wanted to create something a bit different thus did a bit of research through 'word association' and one of the links I thought of was 'Snowball.' How to make them - please follow the instructions below!


Materials:-

• Stamps:- Indigoblu Snowflakes A6; Snow Globe A6
• Cardstock:- White pearlescent; parchment
• Inkpads:- Versamark
• Misc:- Silver holographic embossing powder; alphabet dies; deckle circle dies; double sided sticky sheets (A4 size cut down - origin unknown); talcum powder

Instructions:-

1. Mask off the base and writing on 'snow globe' stamp with low-tack masking tape. Ink with Versamark, remove masking tape and stamp onto parchment sheets. Repeat four times, allowing enough space to leave a border when die-cutting. (I used two A4 sheets and stamped three images on one and two on the other. 
2. Sprinkle over silver embossing powder and heat-set.
3. Select one image and stamp the same snow globe image again, but around the gap to create the illusion of a circle. Emboss as before.
4. Apply double-sided sticky sheet to the reverse of each stamped image and die-cut with a deckle circle - NOT the largest!
5. Die-cut five circles from pearlescent card using the largest deckle die.
6. Peel off the backing sheet and apply 'snowballs centrally to each die-cut card circle. Dust edges with talc to remove any tackiness. 
7. Using Versamark, stamp the Snowflakes stamp onto a piece of white pearlescent card, heat emboss with silver embossing powder and die-cut the letters 'S,' 'N,' 'O' and 'W.'
8. Attach with foam pads to snowballs.
9. Using double sided tape, attach a double length of metallic string to join each snowball, ensuring the loop is at the top.

Et voila! - a cascade of snowballs!

Thank you for reading my blog. Happy crafting!!

Best wishes,

Shelagh
'The Making Lady'