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Monday, 6 February 2012
322 Days To Christmas!
I'm feeling a little bummed out. I don't know why, so I decided to create. I knew exactly what I wanted to do for this weeks Christmas Card Challenges Week #10 - Create Your Own Background and Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #58 - Use a Die Cut. The background is something I learned in high school art class. I used watercolors and salt to create a frosted effect. I painted a very wet wash on water color paper, then sprinkled it with table salt. As it dries the paint is sucked up by the salt creating this effect. This can also work with a dark wash, creating a starry sky. As for the second challenge, that was easy. I finished off my card with a cut from Cricut Cartridge - Winter Woodland. Feeling a bit better, I hope you like my card.
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Beautiful! I love the background effect!
ReplyDeleteWOW!!!! It looks just like falling snow! How beautiful!! I love your card!! :)
ReplyDeleteColin this is such an awesome effect! I have seen people do it before and also a few on silk!! but your card is fabulous!! great job! :0) hugs me x
ReplyDeleteLove the frosted effect of the salt and water - very effective - thank you for joining in my CHNC challenge 58 - hope to see you again soon. x
ReplyDeleteWOW!! great background
ReplyDeleteWOW, your background is AMAZING!!! I tried before to do the salt effect and it wasn't half as good as you, lol!!! Thanks for joining us this week at CCC and we hope to see you again next challenge. Hugs, Brigitte
ReplyDeleteThank you so much colin for this great card! I love to experiment with various snow effects. I will try this in the future! Wonderful!
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Marie XX
Oh wow, Colin, this is so FABULOUS!! What an awesome effect!! It looks like you are looking into a blizzard!! This is so great!! I'd love to see you do this with the starry night effect!! :)
ReplyDeleteLisa
indymermaid.blogspot.com
Beautiful card! Thanks so much for playing along with us this week at Christmas Card Challenges! :) Hugs!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful card. Great background.That technique is something I haven't seen before. Thanks for playing with CCC this week.
ReplyDeleteWow, this is truly stunning!!! I agree...haven't seen this technique before but it sure looks wonderful! Gotta try it sometime. Thanks for playing at CCC, Colin!
ReplyDeleteOMG! You have to make a snowglobe with this look! Would it work on Acetate? Probably not, but I'm sure the genius in you would figure out something amazing. LOVE it!!!
ReplyDeleteI have never seen this before Colin, this is stunning! Really? Salt huh? You must be thrilled how this turned out, it looks like real snow. You knocked it out of the park on this one! What a great idea!
ReplyDeleteSusan
cricutandgrasshopper.blogspot.com
I just love how your background turned out! I've tried this before and have never gotten such a great result.
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