How To Make Wishing You Peace Card -23

Make a card wishing you peace for Christmas during these crazy times. I give you step-by-step instructions on how in this article.

There is nothing more beautiful than fresh snow glistening as the sun goes down. It is hard to put into words the experience because what comes with what you see is peaceful silence. The peace and beauty of these types of moments are what we’re attempting to capture in our card for day 23 of the Twenty-five Days of Christmas.

Masking for the Wishing You Peace Card

To create the card, we’ll begin with some blending. However, we need to create a couple of masks before we do so. For the first one, we’ll die-cut the circle that comes in the Winter Wonderland die set from @GinaKDesigns from masking paper to create the mask that will create the moon. While we’ve got our die-cutting machine out we’ll go ahead and cut the two trees from a scrap of black cardstock.

Next, we’re going to create our snow mask. Therefore, we’ll draw a hilly snow line horizontally across a piece of A2-size (4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″) paper or cardstock. Following that, we’ll cut along that line. As a result, we end up with two pieces: one that we will use as a mask and we will use the other on the card as a second snow drift.

The final step before we begin to blend is to attach the moon mask to a white A2-size card panel. To determine where to put them, arrange and rearrange the masks until you are satisfied with their locations. And then remove the backing paper from the circle mask and fasten it to the card panel.

And finally, we’ll just hold the snow drift mask in place while we blend.

Wishing You Peace Card Blending

Now we can blend our sunset. And we’re going to use a color combination that @GinaKrupsky uses quite often for sunsets. We’re using teal, (a dark one), pink, and peach. The colors coordinate beautifully.

Additionally, we’re going to try to emulate how light and colors fall on a sunset. For example, the colors tend to stay closer to the sun and ride along the horizon. Therefore, they will kind of ride up and over the moon. And then the sky is lighter close to the moon and gets darker the farther it is from the moon.

To demonstrate, we’ll begin by adding teal ink across the top of our card panel with small circular motions. And, we’re going to blend the teal in an arch around the moon, darkening the corners as we go.

Next, we’ll blend in the pink. When you blend pink and teal together you get a gorgeous purple. It is kind of hard to see in the photo, but you can achieve it by using a light hand while blending the pink into the teal on the left side of the card panel. And then, to achieve a little more depth, we’ll use a little bit heavier hand on the right side of the moon.

Finally, this is where we want to make sure that we hold the snow drift mask securely. Following the pink, we’ll add in the peach. And we’ll use a heavier hand right where the sunset meets the snow to look like it’s settling there. HINT: Small blending brushes work best in small areas like we’re working on in this card. And, going back over each of the colors several times helps to improve your blend.

Making The Snow Drifts Glisten

Our next step is to work on the snow drifts a bit. First, we’ll make them stand out a little by adding a little moon shadow to the tops of the drifts with a very light blue alcohol marker. Followed by making them glisten. For example, We’ll use the back side of the mask that we used for blending. And, working on a scrap piece of paper, we’ll add liquid glue along the tops of the hills using our fingers. And then, we’ll sprinkle glitter over the top and set them aside to dry (don’t worry it doesn’t take long). We’ll repeat this step with the snow drift piece that we had cut out.

Wishing You Peace Card Assembly & Sentiment

Finally, all that is left is to assemble the card and add the sentiment.

We’ll begin the assembly by fastening the card panel to an A2 card base using a glue runner.

Next, we’ll heat emboss the sentiment. To do so, we’ll place the card into a stamp positioning tool and place the snow-drift piece where it will be on the finished card. This will help guide us as to where to place the sentiment.

We’ll brush the snow drift with anti-static powder to keep any embossing powder from sticking in places it doesn’t belong. Next, we’ll stamp the sentiment with watermark ink. And then we’ll sprinkle black embossing powder over the stamped image, pour it off, and give it a good tap. Finally, we’ll heat the embossing powder until it is smooth and melted.

All that is left is to attach the snowdrift and the trees. And, we’ll do that with liquid glue.

Supplies for the Wishing You Peace Card

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• Cardstock: Card base – Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Solar White; Card panel: Gina K Designs,Heavy-weight White;
• Stamp: Gina K Designs Winter Window
• Dies: Gina K Designs Winter Wonderland
• Masking Paper: Gina K Designs Masking Magic
• Ink: Gina K Designs Tranquil Teal, Passionate Pink, Peach Bellini; Watermark Ink: Gina K Designs Embossing and Watermark
• Blending Brushes: Gina K Designs Mini Blending Brush Set of 4
• Marker: Copic BG0000
• Adhesive: Gina K Designs Connect; Gina K Designs Adhesive Dot Runner
• Glitter: Elizabeth Craft Designs Silk Microfine Glitter Cool Diamond
• Stamp Positioning Tool: Sizzix Stencil and Stamp Tool
• Anti-static Powder Tool: Cottontail
• Embossing Powder: Brutus Monroe Raven
• Heat Tool: Sizzix Dual Speed

Are You Looking For More Inspiration For Christmas Cards?

You might be interested in the other cards that we are making as part of the Twenty-five Days of Christmas Cards

• Day 22
• HOW TO MAKE A SNOW ANGEL CARD! DAY 21
• HOW TO ADD SPARKLE TO YOUR HOLIDAY CARD
• HOW TO MAKE AN ELEGANT DIE-CUT CARD – 19
• HOW TO MAKE A SPARKLY SNOWFLAKE CARD -18
• HOW TO MAKE A STUNNING HOLIDAY CARD – 17
• HOW TO MAKE A POINSETTIA WREATH CARD – 16
• HOW TO MAKE A BLENDED ORNAMENT CARD – 15
• HOW TO MAKE A SNOWFLAKE SHAKER – DAY 14
• HOW TO MAKE A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS CARD – 13
• HOW TO ROCK A BLACK CHRISTMAS CARD – 12
• HOW TO MAKE CHRISTMAS SILHOUETTES CARD -11
• HOW TO MAKE AN ELEGANT CHRISTMAS CARD-10
• HOW TO MAKE A PURPLE CHRISTMAS CARD – 9
• LEARN HOW TO MAKE A SILENT NIGHT CARD – 8
• HOW TO MAKE MY FAV CHRISTMAS CARD – 7
• WHO DOESN’T LOVE AN ELF CARD? – DAY 6
• HOW TO MAKE A SCRAPBOOK CARD – DAY 5
• HOW TO MAKE A NOEL CHRISTMAS CARD – DAY 4
• DO YOU LOVE SANTA ON THE CHIMNEY? DAY 3
• HOW TO MAKE CHRISTMAS TREE CARD – DAY 2
• HOW TO MAKE FIRST SNOW CARD – DAY 1