Snow Fall Split Negative

Here's a bit of a different take on the Split negative technique (See the tutorial here!)

Now normally when you do this technique, on the white side you would stamp the snowflake in a dark color or craft ink and then emboss it with clear powder. 

For this card I thought the snowflake would be a bit to drab if I did that and plus Blue bayou ink doesn't come in craft ink!  So what I did instead was to stamp the snow flake on the white cardstock with white craft ink and then pour on heat and stick powder.  Make sure that you use the embossing buddy first though because this glitter REALLY likes to stick in places where you don't want it to!) 

Once you dump off the excess powder, heat it gently until it just barely melts....the biggest mistake people make when they use heat and stick powder is to overheat it.  When it is overheated it pretty much just gets cooked....literally....it looses it's sticky!  Once the powder was melted, I quickly poured on some sliver glitter and then removed the excess.  Even though I used the embossing buddy in this sample I still had to take a small paintbrush to touch up the image from stray glitter and even then, I didn't get it all!  So this is definitely a card that you give to someone very special, I wouldn't make 50 of these!

The background is made by stamped the flourish from Baroque Motifs randomly on the blue bayou card front and then I used the ticket corner punch on the corners.  The label came from the level 1 Hostess set "party punch".  To assemble it, stamp the image on Soft Sky cardstock using Pomegranate ink and punch it out with the label punch.   Punch out the circle from the center of the image with the 1/2" circle punch and set aside for later.  Mount a pomegranate circle (1 3/8") behind the label.   Stamp the label image again on white cardstock.  Punch out the 1" circle from the label on the white cardstock and mount the 1/2" blue circle in the center of it with a dimensional then use your crocodile to punch a hole in the center of the white circle to poke a rhinestone brad through and attach the white circle to the blue label.

Tie your double stitched ribbon around the card front, add your label with dimensionals and VOILA!  You are done!  There are no less than FIVE punches used on this card!!  Which isn't a problem for a punch addict like me, lol....