Mix It Up Challenge Blog Time!

It’s the first of January, and time for a whole new year of Mix It Up Blog challenges! Yay!

Our challenge this month is Anything Goes + No Stamping.

My card today was inspired by a crazy mixed media background I made while participating in the Online Card Classes 2022 Holiday Card Workshop.

Here is my card:

Here is a side view so you can see a bit more of the sparkle and shine:

Supplies: Card Stock: Lawn Fawn (green), American Crafts (gray); Vellum: Paper Reflections; Dies: Lawn Fawn; Punch: McGill; Crayons and Stencil: Tim Holtz; Embossing Paste: Wendy Vecchi; Inks: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Frost, Perfect Pearls Mist in Turquoise

Here is how I made it:

First, I used Distress Crayons to create diagonal stripes across my panel.

Then, I applied paste through a stencil on top of the crayon.

I added iridescent spray on top and set it aside to dry.

Once dry, I adhered a few vellum snowflakes to the top, and die cut the panel with a stitched rectangle die.

And then, I did nothing.

I had this super busy background (which is totally out of my comfort zone), and I didn’t know what to do with it!

I admit to staring at it for a few weeks, before I realized it would make a nice sky.

I added a leftover mountain die cut, a leftover snow die cut, some trees, and then a little house I trimmed from a border die.

The mountains got vellum snow caps to match the snowflakes, I added a little glitter glue, mounted it on some card stock, and TADA-a nice wintery card-with no stamping!

Well, that’s it from me today.

I hope this card inspires you to join us for this month’s challenge at the Mix It Up Challenge Blog!

Have a great day and I can’t wait to see what you create!