COOL SHADOW CIAO MARKER

I was able to purchase this SU Hostess set for a great price at a stamp sale this summer. After I got it home I debated whether I really should have purchased it. Today I went to SCS and did some surfing through the gallery for cards using the set. There weren't many but I did find one that was the inspiration for making today's post. The one on SCS was a vertical card and had more to it, but I like the way this one turned out.

The designer paper is from the Papertrey "Everyday Blessings" 6 x 6 paper collection. I loved the papers in it and it was close to the SU Baja Breeze that was used on the sample I saw. After I started, I wondered if I'd be able to find a marker to match the color. It only took a second try to find that "BG10 Cool Shadow" matched it perfectly.

Because I wanted to add a snowflake under the semi-circle, I took a deep breath and decided to try inking up a clear stamp with a Copic maker. I wasn't sure if it would dry too fast or clean up but I proceeded. It worked just fine! The stamp cleaned up with a baby wipe. If it had been a darker color, I don't know if that would have worked as well. HOWEVER, the snowflake I experimented with wasn't quite the right size so I found another one that I stamped with Memento ink and then colored the image with the Cool Shadow marker. The layers were added with dimensionals.

A Martha Stewart snowflake punch was used on two of the corners and a rounder on the upper two corners.