Mojo Monday 505

Hi friends! Are you ready for a new Mojo Monday sketch? After a week of taking care of sick boys, I succumbed to the latest virus heading through the school and have been SO sick the past few days. I decided to make it easy on myself and draw up this round's sketch from a card I made earlier this month for the Shimmerz Paints blog, but only showed a peek of here. I loved how it turned out and hope you enjoy the sketch!

A fun banner always makes for an interesting accent and you can do a lot with that circle, like the  little collage of elements I used on my card.

This card started with a background experiment. I painted a little Moulin Rouge and some Crimson Tide Shimmerz onto a 3 x 5" gelli plate to see what would happen. I think I watered it down a bit too much, because the result was pretty similar to smooshing it on with an acrylic block. I did two pulls from the plate and this one uses the second print. Next I decided to build up some layers, so I used the Tim Holtz mint stripes layering stencil at a diagonal with Crimson Tide Shimmerz to give it that peppermint stick feel. When that was dry I went in with a Tim Holtz flourish stencil and some Tidy Widy Texturez for a shimmery textured accent.

Next I moved onto the stamping. I embossed the snowflake cup from Filled to the Brim in white onto the first gelli print I pulled and fussy cut. I added a bit of Coffee Shimmerz to the brim of the cup, then layered it onto a wooden snowflake embellishment that I painted with Silver Bells Shimmerz.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set and embossed in silver onto vellum and then hand trimmed in a banner shape. I finished off with some distressed edges and a little silver clip and bows.

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