Thursday, October 24, 2024

Let It Snow - Just Us Girls Challenge #750

Welcome back! It's my final week as Guest Designer at the Just Us Girls Challenge - I've had a ton of fun designing for these challenges and thank the JUGS team for the opportunity. Right now, it's stencil time!

I made a Christmas card using layering stencils as well as a standalone, and as I'm loving pink for Christmas this year, I paired a dusky pink with burgundy and white.


I started with my pink background piece, stencilling with texture paste, then I inked the snowman layering stencils and cut them using the postage collage die. Once they were attached I did gesso splatters (regular visitors will know how essential those are!). My sentiment was given an ombre ink treatment and a touch of sparkle before being mounted on vellum. 

Materials used:
  • dies - Postage Collage (Waffle Flower), Festive Words (Tim Holtz)
  • stencils - snowflake (stash), Postage Collage Snowman (Waffle Flower)
  • distress inks/oxide inks - lumberjack plaid, carved pumpkin, black soot, vintage photo
  • other - opaque texture paste (TH), blending brushes, Big Shot, Dimensionals, white gesso, fan brush, clear Wink of Stella, craft foam

I hope you'll get out your stencils and have fun creating - and if you do, be sure to share and link up for the challenge. There's more samples to inspire you over on the Just Us Girls Challenge blog, so pop over for a look.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers
Kerry

8 comments:

cm said...

Kerry, your postage collage snowman are adorable and the pink snowy background is ever so pretty. I just had a play with my set the other day; so much fun. Gesso splatters, you say? I need to try that. Thank you for sharing your abundant creativity with us this month!
~carol

Lisa Elton said...

It's been a pleasure having you guest with us this month, Kerry! Your finale card is out of this world cute! Love those happy little snowmen and your delightful colors!

Vicki Dutcher said...

These postage stenciled panels are adorable! I love you used pink :)

Carol said...

LOVE this pink take on the postage snowmen!!! You are so creative! Thanks so much for being such a great guest! Your cards have been fabulous.

ElizStewart said...

Kerry... Just adorable! Love the pink! I so enjoy how people are using these postage stamps...and your layout is just wonderful. The die cut sentiment is perfect as is the use of embossing paste for the background. Thank you so much for being our guestie this month at Just Us Girls!

Sue VanDeVusse said...

I love everything about this! The texture paste snowflakes, the adorable snowmen postage stamps, your blended sentiment on the vellum shadow and of course the shades of pink. Fabulous creation!

Bobby said...

Pink is perfect with those snow people, Kerry. It's been a pleasure having you as our guest designer this month. All your cards have been an inspiration to our followers.

Dotty Jo said...

Stunning card! Jo x