AAA Cards DT: Mood board + snow

This is my first post for AAA Cards, a clean and simple card design challenge blog. I joined the design team in January and will be posting inspiration cards bi-monthly (twice a month). Apparently, bi-monthly is both every two months and twice a month! Is it any wonder students find English difficult to learn?

The first challenge this year is a mood board (reproduced below) with the optional extra theme of ‘snow’. I took my colour scheme from the pic with the skier and the theme from the snowflake. It’s never too early to make a card for Christmas…

I started by adding alcohol ink in two tones to glossy card stock and blending several layers together to get a mottled background. Stamping with an alcohol ink lift pad (stamp ink and then wipe off) resulted in a pale version of the stamp but wasn’t as white as I had hoped. I rotated the stamp 180 degrees and stamped again, this time using Picket Fence Distress Ink. The image, again, was less opaque than I wanted but, hey, snowflakes are translucent after all. I masked the 5×7″ card blank and stamped the Christmas sentiments background stamp before sticking down the snowflake panel. Finally, add stickles glitter glue around the elements. I tried adding a sentiment, but it spoilt the feel of the card so got dumped.