Castle Combe Christmas

It's Christmas in July, so time to make something winter-themed. :D

That, and I wanted to enter this month's challenge at Crafter's Companion.  And while I've entered my mom's birthday present, I'm not sure it really qualifies since it's not technically a stamp (though the CD *is* found under a stamps category, so we'll see).  Thankfully, I found out that I can enter up to three times, and I've been wanting to do something with this stamp anyway, so...

I decided to use the Castle Combe Art-Kure stamp and a winter themed embossing folder from Cuttlebug, then cut the center out of the resulting embossed section to make a window to peek through.



I'd intended to color the stamp with my tombow markers (I don't have any spectrum noir and don't know if I even like alcohol markers), but I discovered that I had something wrong.  Pigment ink is not the same as archival.  The black ink pad I have is not water proof.  This makes coloring with markers difficult.

So I tried with my prismacolors, but colored pencil just wasn't quite strong enough for this one.

I thought about leaving it black and white, but liked the effect of color.

What I ultimately ended up with is discovering that my sakura glaze pens didn't smear the ink for some reason.  And, I learned you can somewhat blend them (though not to the level you can with tombow markers or what I've seen with spectrum noir or letraset).  Enough for what I wanted, at least.

So I colored it with glaze pens, used three different glues to apply the polar white flowersoft, then added a touch of glitter to some of the embossing.  The three glues?  The flowersoft glue goes down heavier so I used it for where I wanted the thickest snow.  Then my quilling glue gave the next best dimension, and finally used the sakura quickie glue pen for the flattest areas of snow.  I also used the sakura glue pen for applying the glitter.



What I've learned...

I need a new ink pad, for one.  Glitter gets EVERYWHERE for two. And I love flowersoft. :D