Hello once again. I have a card to share for the new challenge beginning at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge. The theme is anything goes as long as it’s Christmas related.
Here is my card:
I began by stamping and heat embossing in white the Thirsty Brush and Co ‘Sparkle to my world’ stamp set onto Arteza water-colour card. I used the rough side of the card as I like the look that gives with watercolour. I then used the Arteza Real Brush pens and a combination of several reds for the poinsettia itself, and several greens for the leaves.
I just played with the colours and the shading – not particularly taking any notice of light source – just playing and colouring, adding water, then taking some away – I do tend to add too much water sometimes – until I was happy with the result.
I did colour some of the stamped berries, but I didn’t like how they turned out, so I went into my Tonic Nuvo drop stash – I seem to have a lot of these drops – and found a colour that matched. I also found a lovely green – so I added that too.
For some reason, I just can’t stop adding these drops once I start:
I layered some red and green card and as I wanted to stamp the sentiment in black to make an impact, I used a black card base.
I hope you can come and join us, as I’d love to see what Christmas creations you can add to our gallery. The Design Team has some fabulous and varied inspiration for you xx
I shall be entering the following challenges:
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge – atg with option wet or dry embossing
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge – atg Christmas with option of cute
Joy Of sets Tic Tac Toe – watercolour/embossing/floral
Happy Little Stampers watercolour challenge – watercolour with option of bling
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This is so pretty! Love how the flowers look on the textured background, and the drops are a great finishing touch. Thanks for playing along with the February Joy Of Sets challenge, too.
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Thank you Cheryl xx
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A beautiful, elegant card, Anna! Gorgeous colouring and design! Thanks so much for joining us at HLS Watercolour Challenge this month!
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Thank you xx
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Lovely watercoloring! And you can never have too much drops! Beautiful card!
Thank you for participating in the Happy Little Stampers watercolor challenge & we hope you will join us again in the next HLS Challenge!.
Anna – Design Team member at Happy Little Stampers
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Thank you!
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Thanks Anna xx
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Stunning Christmas card, your water colouring is beautiful. Thanks for joining us at the CHNC Christmas Weekly this week for our Anything Goes, optional Cute challenge.
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Thank you Cass xx
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very pretty card and water coloring. I like the white embossing. Thanks for sharing over at Crafty Catz
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Thank you Billie xx
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Love the heat embossing, gives the flowers such vibrant look with thecolouring. Thanksfor joining #JOSTTT014 challenge
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Thank you Jane xx
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great card. love the watercoloring. thanks for joining us at JOSTTT.
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Thank you xx
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This is such a gorgeous card – I love the colours of that watercolouring and all the placement of the dots really makes the card pop. Thanks for joining us at #JOSTTT014 this month.
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Thanks very much Fiona xx
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Absolutely gorgeous card! The color palette is so cheery… love it. Thanks for participating in the #JOSTTT014 challenge.
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Thanks Angie xx
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