Make a Snowflake Gel Print Background for your Holiday Cards

Looking to make your holiday card backgrounds pop? Check out this gel print idea, and try it on your next project!

Lisa has designed a loved ‘Christmas in July’ project for us today. Lisa said, “I love to find new ways to dress up my gel prints. The Snowflake Stencil is the perfect one to do that. For this one, the snowflakes are the mask so your snowflake will be the color of the background. I had fun mixing it up and creating a pink snowflake background.” We love this idea and feel like it’s extra creative. Follow along with these steps to make a snowflake gel print background for your next holiday project.

• I started by stamping, die cutting and coloring images from 3499-02 Cute Snowmen 4×6 Stamp Set and 36040 Deer Friend 5×6 Stamp Set.
• Next I pulled out a gel print cut with the largest die in the 5013d Nested Rectangle Small Stitch Die Set and the 4123 Snowflake Stencil-6×6 and placed it over the gel print and secured it with Pixie Tape.
• Then I pulled out some white pigment ink. Pigment ink is great for embossing because it stays wet long enough so you can emboss with it. I dabbed the pigment ink through the stencil with a sponge dabber.
• Once I had good coverage, I removed the stencil and sprinkled the embossing powder over the top and then tapped it off. I use a coffee filter to catch the extra powder so I can easily put it back in the bottle.
• Then I used a heating tool to melt the powder and set it aside to cool.
• I die cut the largest die from the 5500-02d Outside Scallop Frame Die set from white cardstock.
• Then I die cut a piece of white glitter paper to 5 3/8 x 4 1/8″ and cut some hills from it and attached them to the back of the scalloped frame.
• Next I added foam strips to the back of the frame and glitter paper hills and added it to the embossed panel.
• Foam tape was added to the images and they were added to the card.
• The Merry word die from the 5515-12d Merry Christmas W Shadow Die was cut from pink glitter paper and the shadow was cut from white cardstock and they were adhered together with liquid glue.
• Merry was popped up onto the front of the card.