PTI 8th Anniversary: Ready, Set, Snow

Another day, another challenge.  Today we needed to do a blue ombre effect.  After trying to sponge an ombre background, I scrapped it and moved in a different direction.  Glad I did!

 

You'll have to pardon the less-than-ideal picture.  It has been crazy windy here all day and this is the only shot I managed to get outside.  I couldn't get the card to stay up long enough!  It was a bit amusing.  There's a lot of shadow on the picture, so I'll try to get a better shot tomorrow.  I took a pic inside using the kitchen window's light and cropped it for a close-up.  The color is off, but you can see the texture better on the die cut. 

I cut strips of cardstock in Spring Rain, Blueberry Sky, and Enchanted Evening using the Building Blocks dies and carefully glued them onto a white card base.  It's definitely a quick, easy way to do ombre!  I stamped snowflakes from Snowflake Serenade onto the pieced blue strip using VersaMark Dazzle Frost ink.  Then I used a white gel pen to add additional tiny, random snowflake dots.

I cut the large word using the Wonderful Words: Snow die and impressed some texture using the Linen & Canvas plate from Papertrey Ink.  I stamped a sentiment from the matching set directly on the card in black ink and then popped up my die cut word below.

I really love the result!  The VersaMark ink makes the snowflakes look ombre too, as if I had used three colors of ink.  Pretty cool!  You can see other cards for the challenge at Nichole Heady's blog here.

Stamps:  Wonderful Words: Snow, Snowflake Serenade (Papertrey Ink)
Ink:  Tuxedo Black (Memento); VersaMark Dazzle Frost
Paper:  White, Spring Rain, Blueberry Sky, Enchanted Evening (Papertrey Ink)
Misc:  Wonderful Words: Snow die (Papertrey Ink); white gel pen