Color Throw Down Challenge – Sam Van Designs

What better excuse to craft than being snowed in? I received these Darice Snowflake Dies as a gift from a sweet friend and I love them! Once I started, there was no stopping (kind of like the snow outside!).

I started by ink blending a background using Tumbled Glass and Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink with Picket Fence Life Changing Brushes. And you know, they are not kidding about the life-changing part! From this day forward, I will not blend with anything else.

I finished it off with part of a Lawn Fawn sentiment and a Papertrey Ink “Snow” die.

I had a few leftover snowflakes (and those awesome blending brushes were still on my desk), so the second card was really just made with leftovers. I just might like it even better.

Finally, I had a bunch of blue cardstock strips on my desk from another project so I used those, along with the negative from all the die cut snowflakes for card #3! Added a heat embossed sentiment from WPlus9 on vellum so I wouldn’t lose the strips.

Linking this up to the Color Throwdown Challenge #526:

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