Using shades of brown, I was going for a vintage / sepia look with this one. 

For this pink one, left the first stencil in place and splattered diluted white gouache paint to the background for some for some texture. 

And that’s it for me. Thank you for stopping by. 

The snowbell stems and blossoms were die cut from green and white cardstock, respectively. Ink blended  Rustic Wilderness distress ink (DI) on the stems to give them dimension.  Trimmed watercolor paper to a 3.5” square and ink smooshed diluted Rustic Wilderness DI.  To complete the snowy background, splattered with diluted white gouache paint.  Adhered this piece onto white then matted it onto kraft.  Arranged and glued the snowbells on then added more white splatters.  Adhered the gold foil die cut Joyeux Noel sentiment to finish.  

A big thank you to the 52CCT team for giving me this GD opportunity.  Ready to join in the fun?  For more inspirations and to link up your entry head to the challenge post HERE. BHope to see you in the falkery! 

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Die Cut Divas - AG Dies with Something New (new Snowbell Bouquet dies) 

My first idea didn’t pan out, so I put a couple of new products from a recent Hero Arts order to work.  I used the gorgeous Color Layering Poinsettia Window stencils with a sentiment from the Winter Foliage stamp and cut XL set to create a non-traditional colour Christmas card.

To be honest, this well-designed stencil set did most of the work and made the creating process pretty easy.  Distress inks (DI) and blender brushes were used to apply inks through  the stencils onto an A2 size Bristol panel.  A quick side note… the berries were coloured with Abandoned Coral DI then darkened with residual Black Soot DI left on the brush.

DI included:

corals - Saltwater Taffy, Abandoned Coral, Black Soot 

blues - Stormy Sky, Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire 

I don’t have the coordinating stencils for this set, but I don’t mind since I love to colour.  The image was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured with my favourite Copic Sketch markers in rainbow colours. 

Copic markers used:

pinks - RV00, RV02, RV04, RV17 

reds - R02, R14, R27, R46 

oranges - Y17, YR04, YR09 

yellows - Y11, Y15, Y19, V01

aquas - BG10, BG01, BG05 

blues - B00, B12, FB2, B28 

purples - V01, V04, V17 

greens - YG01, YG06, YG09, G09

shadow - 0, C0, C1, C2

Colouring took up the bulk of the card, so once it was done, the card came together quite quickly and easily.  For some texture, splattered with diluted white gouache paint.  The sentiment from Let’s Celebrate was heat embossed with white embossing powder on black cardstock.  Adhered the panel to a white card base, then added clear shimmer on the flowers and a few clear sequins for some sparkle to finish. 

The floral spray and Diagonal Glimmer Stripes background were foiled on Bristol paper with Silver hot foil.  Watercoloured the image with Zig markers and a water brush, then die cut out with the matching die.  Die cut again from thick white paper to stack for dimension.

The sentiment from Essential Sentiments by Waffle Flower was stamped with VersaMark ink on Bristol paper, heat embossed with silver embossing powder, then die cut out with the matching die.  Assembled the card onto a white card base to finish.  With all that beautiful shine, didn’t think it needed embellishments.