Blue Star

The last CAS Christmas challenge of the year!

I combined three of my favourite things - stars, brushos / spray starch backgrounds, and the colour blue:

The background was created by spraying a piece of mixed media paper with spray starch. Then sprinkling with a couple of shades of blue Brushos, scrunching a piece of cling wrap over the top, and leaving it to dry for a few hours.

I then trimmed it down to fit nicely on a white shimmer card base.

The star was cut from a piece of cs on which I'd stamped a Christmas text background, sponged lightly with blue ink, and went over with a tiny snowflake stencil and sparkly embossing paste (unfortunately the openings on the stencil are so tiny that I lost a lot of definition of the snowflake shapes - note to self that this stencil is better for sponging than for using with embossing paste - but I do have a nice bit of sparkly texture.).  The die cut star is popped up on fun foam for dimension.

The December CAS Christmas challenge is shorter than the rest of the months to give us a nice break for the holidays.  So please get your card linked up by December 15th.  For inspiration, head on over to CAS Christmas to see the cards by the rest of the Design Team and the very beautiful one made by our Guest Designer, Cindy of Escape to Stamping.  Please remember to keep your card clean and simple, and to use the theme of stars.

Supplies:

Stamps -

Ink - blue Distress inks

Paper - white shimmer, plain white, mixed media cs

Size - 4.75" square

Accessories - various blue Brushos, spray starch, cling wrap, Spellbinders star die, tiny snowflake stencil, sparkly embossing paste, foam tape