A cold and starry night

Hi everyone! Here is a card made for the Flourishes Warm Winter Wishes Challenge- but oops I think I'm too late to link up my card.....waah!

Snow is in the forecast here tonight so why not make a wintery card. I used my "Starry Night" stamp from Hero Arts. I've been rather picky trying to find just the right color ink for this stamp and I finally rememebered to grab my pack of 4 different blue Momento inks. I'm drowning in ink pads and forget how many different colors I actually have.....my sickness for inks is almost as bad as my sickness for rubber. Anyways...... I wanted a fairly dark blue for this and wanted to achieve a very frosty cold look to it also.

After inking up my stamp using the Danube Blue I came around the edges of the stamp using Paris Dusk. This is the nicest dark blue with just a hint of purple to it....I love it! I wanted the trees and stars to sparkle so I grabbed my Versamark "marker" and traced over the white tree trunk and branches, and stars- then heat embossed it all using polysparkle powder.

Then I grabbed my Enamel Accents in white and went around the whole image, adding an extra thick layer along the bottom. I did the tree trunks as well. While that was still wet and tacky I poured some Martha Stewart course glitter over it to make it look like frosty snow. Can you see the dimension here?

Then I stamped the sentiment on some metallic silver paper using my black Stazon ink (all other inks seem to smear badly on this paper). I punched out a few small black snowflakes from some scrap paper and added a tiny light blue gem to each one. I'm so happy this card turned out like I wanted it to- but trust me there were several stamped out versions that hit the trash before I got it just right.

Here are a few pic's of the supplies I used on this card.

And the border punch and my Versamark marker- (love this!) Did you know you can use the Versamark marker on just about anything to emboss it, even the smallest little things ..... and even patterned paper.

I had fun making this card and hope you enjoyed my explanation of the process. It has been rather warm here in Wisconsin (we actually had a thunderstorm last night)  and we are hoping to keep those frosty cold nights away for a little while longer....but the cold is coming and so is snow- eeeek!

Inky hugs, Anne