Large snowflake stencils for cards + shades of gold = STUNNING!

As you know I am a big fan of creating little, dainty snowflakes on my cards but sometimes something BIG brings the drama – using large snowflake stencils for cards in unconventional ways can do just that. I love how all the white on white, with those tiny detail touches of color, against a bold, truly unexpected background of white snowflakes over a deeply warm gold based background makes a card you can’t really look away from! 

Snowflake Stencil Background

• Use white cardstock to cut an A2 sized card base and a 6″ x 6″ layer.
• Secure the white layer and Snowflake stencil together on scrap paper using mint tape.
• Use a an ink blending tool to apply metallic gold pigment ink. 
• Remove the stencil and heat set the ink.
• Cut the stenciled layer to fit a on the front of the A2 card base.  
• Attach the layer using ATG adhesive.

Snow Layers

• Use white cardstock to cut the snow layers.
• Cut the two snow layers to fit across the card base.
• Attach one snow layer directly to the card base using ATG adhesive.
• Use a strip of mounting tape to attach the front front snow layer.

Deer Family and Embellishments

• Use white cardstock to cut the deer family and evergreen sprigs.
• Cut the tiny holly leaves using green cardstock, place them on the molding pad and form them with the leaf tool.
• Use red cardstock to punch out several 1/8″ circles for berries.
• Attach the holly leaves and red circles to the necks of the deer using glossy accents.
• Apply red stickles to the red berries.
• Apply pieces of mounting tape to the back of the deer, tuck them behind the snow layers and attach to the card base.
• Tuck several evergreen sprigs behind the snow layers and attach using glossy accents.

Check out my Birch Tree Stencil for a Winter Card to see another one of Rubbernecker’s new stencils and how much they add to a project..  

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While we often see these large snowflake stencils for cards and paper crafting used fairly traditionally – and the results ARE beautiful – don’t be afraid to really shake it up sometimes and see what you come up with! OOh – what about white snowflakes over red or even dep navy? Hmmmmmm……..