The next three blog posts this week are going to start with the same technique but I am going to show the finished product on three types of cards. I love to watercolor – it’s fluid and fun and looks great every time – even if you think it looks messy sometimes those make the best pieces of cardstock to use! I started with Shimmery White cardstock (#101910) not only does this cardstock have a glorious shimmer to it but it is thick enough to stand up to watercoloring on it! (and the finished product sparkles!!!) I smoosh the top of our Classic Stampin’ Ink Pads down onto the ink pad inside tranferring some ink to the case top making a palette inside the cover like a paint tray! I watercolored in two ink colors Pacific Point (#147098) and Starry Sky (#159212) adding extra water to the ink in the lid with a waterpainter brush (#151298) and applying it to prewettened Shimmery White cardstock – apply color until happy with the coverage and depth of color – add more color to make the hue darker and richer in tone.

Using the snowflake dies from the Chic Die Set (#158815) I cut multiple snowflakes from one 4″ x 5 1/2″ sheet of watercolored Shimmer White cardstock. This will be the same starting process for all the cards this week.

The card today is called a barn door card, because it swings open from the bottom.

You start with a standard A2 card base. I used a Orchid Oasis cardstock measuring 5 1/2″ x
8 1/2″ scored at 4 1/4″.

Cut the card base front starting at the top of the card’s score line and slicing with the Stampin’ Trimmer to halfway down the card to 2 3/4″. Rotate the card 90 degrees and cut at the 2 3/4″ across to the score line where the cut will intersect with your first cut, and the piece should detach easily from the card base.

Save the cut piece of Orchid Oasis cardstock and cut two more pieces of cardstock for the front focal point.
Take a piece of Snowflake Specialty Vellum I used the silver foiled dotted vellum for this card cut to 2 1/2″ x 4″.
Take a piece of Silver Foil cardstock and cut this to a 3″ x 4 1/2″ section.
Adhere them largest to smallest with Stampin’ Seal adhesive for the first two layers silver foil to the Orchid Oasis cardstock and then adhere the snowflake vellum using mini glue dots behind the largest silver foil dots on the vellum.

Adhere the lower half of this focal piece to the bottom center of the “barn door” flap of the card front.

I decorated the card with the netting die cut in silver foil and the watercolor snowflake dies as well as a few silver foil snowflake die cut accent pieces.

I stamped on a solid snowflake die cut a sentiment and then stamped off twice to make a very light snowflake impression on this sentiment piece and popped it up on mini Stampin’ Dimensionals in the upper middle of the card’s focal piece.

I added a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Basic White cardstock to the inside of the base card to finish the card.

This is what the card looks like opened up! Isn’t that so fun and easy!

The supplies below are for all three versions of the card so some supplies may not be used on today’s card but all the supplies will be used at some point this week!

Give it a try! Now go and create some art of your own – one stamp at a time!

Happy Stampin’

Natalie