The Reason for the Season...Joy Clair Christmas

Hello there inky friends!  Today I'm joining my fellow Joy Clair Designers as we share projects featuring some of our newest Christmas sets.  I selected this new stamp set called The Reason.  I love this set because of the sentiments and images and I had so much fun creating this card with this set! 

I started out by working on my background.  I used a dark gray cardstock and applied some Nuvo Shimmer Powder (Storm Cloud, Atlantis Burst, Solar Flair) and spritzed it with water until the powder bloomed perfectly.  I then used my heat gun to speed up the drying process and purposefully move the ink pool over the paper. 

Next, I applied a Silver Vintage Frame Peel and Stick Glitter Dust Deco Frame from Therm-o-Web.  I wanted this card to be very sparkly and full of shine so I also added some golden thread, golden pearls and a little strip of gold glitter cardstock.  I Stamped the sentiment onto the panel using Versafine Onyx and then I added some hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder.  Finally, I stamped, colored (with Copics) and fussy cut the two angels and placed them perfectly on the front panel.  This panel was mounted onto a cream card base with some small foam squares. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you enjoy the rest of my team's inspirational projects!