4CC: #429 Snowflakes

It is time for another 4 Crafty Chicks challenge and this week's "Twist" theme is Snowflakes!  I got some new Snowflake goodies just in time for this challenge!  The pictures kinda stink, we've had overcast skies all week.

I used a new Reverse Confetti set called SNOWFLAKE MAGIC and the coordinating dies for this card.  For the base I played around with some alcohol & Water colors, I saw the idea on Jennifer's blog, here.  I used some Cosmic Shimmer watercolors, just some pretty blue with a little bit of like a blue green and lots lotsa lotsa water (on watercolor paper, fyi)!  Then I just flicked some rubbing alcohol from a paintbrush.  When I liked the look, I used the heat gun to dry it a little, then flicked some more.  I did this about 3 or 4 times.

It's kind of hard to see, but I used both of the large snowflake dies and a smaller die on this panel.  I have a white cs panel cut the same size and adhered it to the watercolor panel, this let me stamp those snowflakes in Navy Blue on the white.  I stamped the sentiment in silver and then using it's coord die, cut it out and popped it up in the center of the top flake.

To fill in a little more space I took one of the snowflake stamps and stamped some silver flakes in a few places.  In the bottom corner I die cut another snowflake but this time with silver foil cs and then popped it up and added a blue button with silver twine in the center.  OH and matted behind the watercolor layer is a silver layer of cs… it looked much better than gray!

That's it for me, be sure to check out what the rest of the Chicks have been up to, 

Leanne, Lori, Nance & Amy

And don't forget to link up your creation at the Hen House!