Snowy Christmas Card

Here I am with another Christmas Card. This time I wanted to make a CAS (Clean and Simple) card with a night sky background along with some speckles of snow.

Stamping

Before getting to the background I decided to finish the stamping and heat embossing elements. So I started by roughly drawing a circle in the center. I used the snowflakes and baubles from Mudra Stamp's Christmas Decor set and arranged them along the circle. I heat embossed the snowflakes with White embossing powder and the baubles with Silver to give them a shiny ornament look.
For the sentiment, I thought I would try something on my own for a personal touch and used the Emboss IT pens from Ranger and wrote my sentiment Merry Christmas in the center of the circle. I embossed this also with some Silver embossing powder.

With this my stamping part was done and I was ready to move on to the background.

Background

For the background I wanted an inky night sky so I took a few shades of blue in my Distress ink stock  and Black Soot and blended the colors from light to dark to create the look. After I got the desired look I splattered some white acrylic paint spots to give a snowy night look. Also drew a few stars with the White Sakura Gelly Roll pen.

I wanted a reindeer jumping over my sentiment and I chose to stamp it with Festive Berries Distress ink as I liked the Red-Blue contrast that I could get. The reindeer is also from the same Mudra Stamp set. I fussy cut the reindeer and mounted it above the sentiment with some foam squares. I wanted to create an effect where the reindeer had pounced over the Merry Christmas sentiment which caused the sentiment to slant.

Supplies

• Mudra Stamps - Christmas Decors
• Ranger White and Silver Embossing Powder
• Ranger Heat - It tool
• Ranger Emboss IT pens
• Distress Inks and Mini blending tool
• Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - White pen
• White Cardstock from Papericious

.Challenges - I am entering this card in the following challenges!

• Mudra Sketch Challenge # 4

• Simon Says Monday Challenge - Let there be Snow

• CAS Mix Up December Challenge - Sponging + Stamping + Heat Embossing

• Kylie's 12 Days of Christmas Cards Challenge 

• Country View December 2016 - Christmas Challenge

• AAA CAS Games # 79