Mixed Media Christmas Card

 I love to play with Mixed Media.  I love layers of messy paints, inks, gels, papers, stamping - it is fun to bring it all together into a creative happening.  So, when I saw the challenge at Christmas Card Throwdown  was Mixed Media, I had to play along.  

My card started by making some panels to stamp my snowman on.  I used the baby wipe paint swipe method.  You put a little dab of paint on a diaper wipe and swipe it across your card stock.  I did a block style so I could get an assortment of colors on my panel.  Luckily there was enough paper left to stamp a sentiment and mat for the sentiment.

I heat embossed the snowman on the panel and die cut with a rectangle die.  I then used a stencil and put clear glitter embossing gel around the snowman.  This represents snowflakes falling.  I dry embossed a panel from white card stock in a snowflake patter.  I die cut a snowflake out of a white shimmer card stock to add another depth of color to the card.  Everything was added to the card base.

I love how I was able to get so many of the colors used in the sentiment circle and the circle mat.  

I made two of these cards and they will go to people living in warm climates who probably really are not missing a white Christmas.

Thanks for stopping by.  I can happily say our snow is slowly melting.  It was almost 50 yesterday and I had the front door open for some fresh air.