Friday, February 24, 2023

It Came Upon a Midnight CLEAR

This fortnight at Jingle Belles we're celebrating one of my favorite types of cardmaking product: CLEAR/see-through elements, like transparencies, vellum, acetate, glass, lucite... you get the idea, right? You definitely don't have to build a card on an ancient Hambly transparency or add a shaker window, but you can... and I have! 


Right off the bat I should probably mention that nearly everything on this card is ANCIENT and unavailable, though I did find the adorable Pretty Pink Posh critters, whose stamp set is called Holiday Pals, at Buffalo Stamps and Stuff. That just happens to be the place where my friend Elisabeth from Paper Anthology got hooked on stamping; so if you live anywhere near Buffalo, NY, you should probably check it out. I've colored the Pals (plus trees from the same set) with Tombows from Paper Anthology and built a shaker window on top of the card by diecutting that Nesties frame half a dozen times and stacking them up with a snowy Hunkydory Crafts Acetate Sheet holding in a mix of Eyelet Outlet Snowflake and Round Sequins. Oh and there are a few styles of truly elderly washi and decotape, including some from Heidi Swapp, who anticipated the tape craze by like ten years; in much the same way that she was doing fabulous stylized brush lettering way before that was A Thing. We owe much to Heidi! 

The Midnight CLEAR challenge will run at Jingle Belles until Wednesday evening, March 8th. Head over to see Stephanie's card and start planning what you'll link up with us this fortnight!

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