Packing foam. You can see it's not styrofoam. |
The sky needed to be a night sky, as a background for a little shepherd boy Christmas card, so Mediterranean Blue was geographically correct.
I didn't want to ruin my nice natural sponges. There's nothing natural about packing foam, so it's a perfect delivery system. And free.
And the cheap kitchen cutting "boards" that are so thin you can roll them up, the ones I've been using to extend the life of my Cuttlebug cutting plates? They also make great palettes. I squeezed out some Brilliance from the reinker bottle, spread it around on the cutting "board" with the foam circle, dabbed a little off on a piece of scrap and began applying to the embossed card stock.
Here's the palette with my packing foam applicator:
Here's how the card turned out:
The star, btw, was trimmed from the Sue Wilson Festive Collection Noel Star. I learned you can't really use dies to cut the Cricut sparkle paper that comes on vinyl rolls, but you can easily cut it with scissors to back a die shape, in this case the star.
The circle is from her Frames and Tags Madeleine set, backed by blue printed scrapbook paper.
Behind that is the Hamilton die from the New Zealand collection.
Here are the dies:
What a great idea!
ReplyDeleteSaw on Sue Wilson's blog that you can't get pixie dust there. Lindy's Gang Magicals may give you a similar effect although I've not tried them out yet. Go on YouTube to see them in action. Hope this helps. Debra x
Thanks for the tip Debra!
DeleteWow! I just saw the Maremi video! Wow! Plus, now I want some of those texture stencils! I've never heard of Lindy's Stamp Gang. Thanks for telling me!
DeleteThanks for the info on Lindy's Gang Magicals
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