Crafty Cardmakers - #130 - Something Old, Something New

Hello Everyone!

It's our first challenge of the year over at Crafty Cardmakers and More! Our hostess, Leslie, would like to see your creations incorporating SOMETHING OLD AND SOMETHING NEW. This could be old stash and new stash, an old technique and a new technique or a combination of both.

I decided to continue my stash of Christmas cards for next year! For my OLD, I used an old Artistic Outpost stamp set and an old Cheery Lynn die to make my pine branch (which is also an old technique). For my NEW, I used a new gold button from a mixed bag I got for Christmas, a new Darice embossing folder, my new Fired Brick distress spray and a new adhesive sealer to protect the painted background (which is now a NEW technique).

You can see my new Darice Flourish embossing folder nicely in this next shot. I painted a piece of white card stock with DecoArt Deep Red Crafter's Acrylic paint, then sprayed it with Tim Holtz distress spray Gathered Twigs. I ran the paper through my Cuttlebug using the embossing folder (a 12" long border) and then sanded off the raised areas to expose the white paper underneath.

I love my Tim Holtz inks, but because they are dye based, whenever I add snow or white paint or white texture paste on the top, the product will absorb the dye from my background underneath. This is OK sometimes, but not when you want your snow to be WHITE!!

So I got a new product for Christmas called Krylon Workable Fixative. Hey MRS DUCK - a new Krylon product to get addicted to!! It's a spray sealant with a sort of satin finish. I sprayed my background with it...it dried in like two minutes, but almost gagged me with the fumes, oops!! Then I added my DecoArt Snow Tex...

LOOK HOW NICE AND WHITE THE SNOW IS!!

I ripped a sheet of paper and stamped on some music notes, spritzed a little Tim Holtz Gathered Twigs spray and Fired Brick spray...added some pom pom trim and lots of snow.

I am entering my Winter Cardinal card into the following wonderful challenges:

- Winter Wonderland - Things With Wings

- Wednesday's Creative Inspirations - Challenge #295 - Finished with a Bow

- Completely Christmas - Challenge # 45 Anything Goes With A Twist Add Some Christmas Foliage
- Perfectly Rustics Design Challenge - No.39 - Animals
- Inky Impressions - Challenge #191 - Something New
- A Gem of A Challenge - #135 - Something New

That's it for today. Thank you for stopping in and for all the amazing comments. I read and appreciate every single one! If you have any questions, please let me know.