- Vicky Hattingh
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
Hi crafty friends! Today I am sharing a wintry card featuring Spellbinders’ City Holiday die set designed by Yana Smakula. I’ve been wanting to work with this die set all season long and am finally getting the opportunity to do so. I put my fate once again in Sarah Renae Clark’s Color Cubes and a random number generator to pick my color scheme and today’s Color Cube card was #010. This one feels more autumnal; however, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it will be magical!
The supplies used:
Spellbinders – City Holiday Die Set
Birch Press Design – Merry Christmas Dapper Script
Ranger Ink/Tim Holtz – Distress Ink Pads – Chipped Sapphire, Villainous Potion,
Brushed Corduroy, Mowed Lawn
Waffle Flower – Background Blender Brushes
Spellbinders – Timber, Cinnamon, Terracotta, Indigo, Peridot, Alabaster,
Plum Cardstock
Concord & 9th – Peanut Cardstock
Altenew – Moonstone Glitter Cardstock
Idea-ology/Tim Holtz – Gold Metallic Kraft Cardstock
Scrapbook Adhesives Thin 3D Foam Squares
Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue
Winsor & Newton White Designers Gouache
Rainbow Splash – Rainbow Gem Stickers
Altenew – Mini Blending Brush
Krylon Workable Fixatif Spray
Anna Griffin Empress Die Cutting Machine
Creating the Card Front Background
I cut a piece of white cardstock to measure 5” x 7” and selected Chipped Sapphire, Villainous Potion, and Brushed Corduroy Distress Inks to use for ink blending my night sky.
For the sky, I started ink blending at the top of the cardstock using Chipped Sapphire and blended about a third of the way down the panel, switched to Villainous Potion for the next four or so inches and then finished ink blending the remaining bottom portion of the panel using Brushed Corduroy. Since I will be spattering white gouache over the background sky, I took the panel outside and sprayed it with Krylon Workable Fixatif Spray to try to keep the Distress Inks from seeping into the white spatter. I set the sprayed background panel aside to dry and moved on to the focal point.
Creating the Focal Point
For my focal point image, I used the Spellbinders City Holiday die set and cut the individual pieces from the following cardstock colors:
Snow: Altenew Moonstone Glitter Cardstock
Roof, Window and Door Sills & Steps: Spellbinders Timber Cardstock
Trees and Wreaths: Spellbinders Peridot Cardstock
Stars on Exterior Trees: Idea-ology/Tim Holtz – Gold Metallic Kraft Cardstock
Door and Window Frames: Concord & 9th Peanut Cardstock
Draperies: Spellbinders Indigo Cardstock
Building Structure: Spellbinders Cinnamon Cardstock
Wreath Bows and Swags: Spellbinders Cranberry Cardstock
Inside Windows: Spellbinders Alabaster Cardstock
Gifts: Spellbinders Plum Cardstock
I assembled all the pieces for the apartment building using Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue.
Building the Sentiment
Utilizing Birch Press Design’s Merry Christmas Dapper Script sentiment die, I die cut the sentiment once from the Idea-ology/Tim Holtz Kraft Gold Metallic Cardstock and two more times from Spellbinders Indigo cardstock. I glued the three layers of the sentiment together in a stack and placed an acrylic block on top until the glue dried.
Finishing the Design
To complete the card, I mixed a small amount of Winsor & Newton white gouache with a couple drops of water and spattered it heavily across the background panel. Once the spatter dried, I glued the snow hill across the bottom of the card and then adhered the apartment building in the center of the snow hill. For the exterior trees, I lightly ink blended Distress Mowed Lawn Ink with an Altenew blending brush along the bottoms of the trees and added a little up the sides. I adhered the two trees on either side of the building using thin foam squares and liquid glue, added some yellow Rainbow Gem Stickers to the trees, and added the sentiment to the top of the card. Lastly, I adhered the card front panel to a white, 5” x 7” card base.
Thank you for stopping by and checking out today’s blog post, I really appreciate it. Until next time, happy crafting!
