Frosty Pinecones

Hi everyone, today I would like to share a set of ATC’s I have made for Tracy Evans’ monthly FB ATC swap … this month the theme is “Winter Wonderland”. I hardly have any wintery stamps by Tracy but I do have her “Pinecone” set so I decided to give them a frosty and snowy look. I made 3 identical ATC’s for the swap plus one extra as I really liked how the design turned out .. here they are.

I took a large snippet of white stamping card and created a smooshed background with Tumbled Glass and Stormy Sky Distress Oxide ink, then cut the panel into 4 pieces each slightly smaller than a standard ATC. On each piece I stamped the pinecone and foliage using Pinecone and Rainforest Versafine Clair, using my stamping platform to enable me to stamp in 2 stages, one for each colour, wiping the ink off parts of the stamp where not required with a baby wipe… a bit fiddly but worth it! I then coloured it with Zig watercolour brush pens, highlighted the cone with white Posca pen, and both cone and leaves with a clear Sakura Stardust pen to give a frosty look. 

I added a little background stamping in grey, then stamped the word “Winter” in Twilight, coloured the “W” with my Stardust pen and added some snow to the letters with Posca pen. Finally I added some sparkle to the pinecone with Spectrum Noir sparkle pen and some Posca snow spatter, then matted onto dark blue linen card stock ATC’s cut from a couple of snippets in my stash.

Here’s a closeup of one of them…

… and an angled picture to show how extremely sparkly it is! 

Stamps: AALL & Create #389 Pinecone, #455 Seasons;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky); Versafine Clair (Pinecone, Rainforest, Morning Mist, Twilight); Kuretake Zig watercolour brush pens; Sakura Stardust pen (clear); Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear); Posca pen (white).

Challenges I would like to enter:

Allsorts #764 - January Blues / Anything Goes

ATC’s Around the World #109 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Double D - Sparkle and/or Shine (2nd entry)

FarmQuest General Store #12 - Anything Farm or Country Goes

Four Seasons (January) - Winter (3rd entry)

Kraftin’ Kimmie’s Skrappy Challenge (January) - Anything but a Card (2nd entry)

Outlawz (January) - Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone (3rd entry)

Simon Says (Monday) - Sparkle and Shine (3rd entry)

Snippets Playground #472 - Use Snippets

Word Art Wednesday #631/632 - Anything Goes  (3rd entry)

Hope everyone is having a good weekend... the weather is supposed to be wild later on today, so stay safe everyone! Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,