Happy Thanksgiving! To all of you celebrating today … may you be blessed with the joy and love of family and friends as you feast! At Time Out, we’re half way through our latest challenge, where we’re focussing on embossing with an optional twist of sparkle. I’ve gone with two types of embossing and plenty of sparkle and shine this week …
The panel started off life as white card stock, embossed at the Lake House with a Stampin’ Up EF (I think … another goodie in the collective stash … don’t know which of the BABES it belongs to). On the debossed side, I coloured in the snowflake impressions with a silver fine liner, heat embossed the sentiment (SSS and Uniko Studio) in Hero Arts silver EP and then set to with some Distress Inks. Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire were sponged over the panel, and I splattered and sprayed Shimmer Spritz over it to lift the colour and add some delicate sparkle … a sort of all over Wink of Stella effect. To finish, I added a little bling to each snowflake and a few star sequins, and popped the panel up on foam dots on the card base.
There’s already a wonderful gallery filled with embossed and sparkly delights … and there are ideas galore from the DT over at the Time Out blog. If you haven’t played along yet, why not pop over and see where your imagination might take you … you could win the chance to be a Guest Designer … and if you use the optional twist, you’ll be in with a random chance of winning a stamp set from our sponsor, Avocado Arts!
My card’s heading over to join in with …
Less Is More – Jingle All The Way
Uniko Studio – Christmas Anything Goes
Simply Create Too – Snow, Snow, Snow
SSS Wednesday – Anything Goes
Thanks so much for coming by, your visits and comments are always a joy! Anita 🙂
My Papercraft World 
Fabulous sparkle and embossing, feels like fireworks! Thanks for joining us at Uniko x
Beautiful snowflakes! I like the dramatic look of this. xxx
Another beautiful and sparkling Christmas card Anita
Love the deep blue backdrop
Thanks so much for sharing and taking part.
Sarah xx
Less is More
Wonderful job with embossing. WOW! Thank you for sharing with us at Simply Create Too – Myrna DT
As I list those I’m thankful for today, you Anita, are definitely on the list! Thank you for sharing your creativity with us all. Your card is really gorgeous… somehow Elvis is singing Blue Christmas in my brain… a very good thing…
=] Michele
Wow, Anita, that’s a lot of line coloring but so worth it. That card is stunning. Happy Giving
Thanks to you!
Blue is my favorite colour, so seasonscards in blue catch my eye quickly…so did this beauty! Great how the mist gave it just a little accent! Hugs, Gerrina
You SERIOUSLY drew INSIDE the embossed indentations with a fine liner and you never fell ‘out of the lines’ once….very, VERY impressive! This task (not that I would ever attempt it) would, without a doubt, be a three spectacle event for my old eyes! Your beautifully and perfectly blended ‘night sky’ paired with the gorgeous silver snowflakes and sa-weeet sentiment is breathtaking!
I have missed so many of your wonderful posts lately Anita do forgive me. This is stunning beautifully embossed and the colours and design are amazing very dynamic indeed.
Marie
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. This may sound silly but do clean the ef with cleaner or water or does it just dry?
So striking and so beautiful !!
Oh, I love the brilliant blue bg with the splatting and spraying to make it even more striking, Anita!!!! Your snowflakes are beautiful!!! Love the sentiment and the cute star sequins and bling!!!! Very striking card, Anita!!! Love it!!!!
Have a great Friday!!!!
beautiful card, anita… love the blue and silver!
This card reminds me peace of Christmas Eve night. Deep navy blue and white snowflakes, Christmas carol you can hear somewhere … wonderful moments, wonderful card.
hugs,
Bozena
Such elegance!
This is really pretty Anita, super embossing!
Thanks so much
Chrissie
“Less is More”
hi Anita! I luv this, the gorgeous snowflakes pop against the gorgeous blue..AWESOME! I am thrilled you played along with Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, I hope you join us again next week!
sparkle & shine *~*
Wow, all that blue is stunning and love the way you used the embossing design. I haven’t dry embossed for months, must dust off my folders and try them out!!
This is just beautiful. I love that deep blue background, it really makes your sparkly snowflakes shine. I love seeing the creations you were inspired to start at the Lake House, when even I read that it brings back so many sweet and wonderful memories. I also wanted to thank you for playing along with at Simply Create Too!
So very beautiful! I can certainly appreciate your patience in going over the deposed areas with the silver pen…I don’t think that I could have done it :). This turned out over the top gorgeous!
Debossed
Such a beauty! I sure shines!
I love the rich blue of the background with the silver snowflakes – really beautiful!
Ooh love the blue background and the fab embossing. The silver looks fabulous! xxx
Wow, Anita! This is stunning with two kinds of embossing and lots of sparkel. I am also impressed you were able to enter this in so many challenges. We had wonderful warm weather here in Ca. We all went outside to play after dinner.
Wow Anita, I am loving how your card turned out! I love the dry embossing and the wet embossing-looks amazing. Your inked background is just beautiful and I love the shimmer and sparkle it has. I can’t believe you outlined each snowflake, it sure paid off because it look gorgeous! Hugs, Brenda
The silver snowflakes are so striking, Anita! How interesting to learn how you achieved them! Brilliant! Have to try this!
Striking & elegant–love it, Anita!
OMGosh, I love how your card turned out, Anita! I’ve always wanted to color in the debossed areas of a card, and now I see it can be done…Beautifully, too! I love the contrast of the dark blue and silver…it’s really striking, and I really love how you added a bit of bling and stars! Such a stunning card!
Your card looks amazing Anita – I love all the sparkle and that blue is so pretty too:) Hugs xx
Stunning. I really like the bright deep blue with the silver. Those snowflakes are so very festive.
Gorgeous design Anita!! LOVE how you’ve used a silver pen to fill in the snowflake designs … so pretty! And love this combination of distress inks … gorgeous and saturated colours. Loll xx
Dang. This is so creative. Coloring in the debossed side and then inking the rest. One-upping letterpress, you are, my dear! Absolutely lovely. Thanks so much for joining the fun at Simply Create Too, Anita!
Such a beautiful vibrant blue. It really stand out! x
Anita my head is spinning reading all the fabulous techniques you used on this gorgeous sparkly card! The rich blue tone is so awesome!
Those snowflakes are gorgeous and look amazing against that blue!
Sorry to be so late visiting you this week, what a gorgeous and striking effect Anita!
Thanks so much for entering the LIM Challenge
Anne
Less is More Designer
Beautiful card, love those snowflakes. Thank you so much for joining in with the Uniko Challenge.
FABulous & festive, love the sparkle 🙂 Thanks for joining in on the Uniko Studio Challenge. Hugs Bev x
Your card reminds me of travels, when we were kids, to my grandparents’ home, in northern Alberta; a journey that often took us into the night. At times, the sky was precisely this deep, lovely blue, and the snow that fell – light and swirly – was so like your lovely snowflakes. I love when a card evokes a memory or stirs an emotion; yours has done both! Thank you!
Hugs~c