watercolor christmas card

 

My daughter and I took a stamping & watercolor class at our local store, Artsy.  I knew immediately I would need to pull out some old stamps and start playing.  I created this for the challenge over at Make it Sweet and Neat.  http://makeitsweetandneat.com/ and http://ynschallenges.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

I was having so much fun working on it that I forgot to take pictures along the way... so I took one picture showing many of the products I used, and a mid stage shot.

 

 

 

 

The products I used were:

 

Spellbinders cut and emboss Create-a-Flake

Tomboy the Craft Collection markers

generic watercolor paper

A VERY old Stampendous precious moments stamp - Winter Song

Sentiment stamped from a not as old stamp of unkown origin 

Cuddlebug snowflake emboss folder

CTMH Inkpads

Ranger Archival Black inkpad

Misc. scrap papers

 

I inked the negative side of the embossing folder with CTMH Twighlight ink then ran plain white cardstock through for my two side panels.  I stamped my image on watercolor paper and "painted" with the tomboy markers and a small brush.  If you look closely you can see I added puffy snow with a Snow Marker.  

 

For the finishing touch I added purple jewels to the corner and center of the snowflakes.  It was a lot of fun, of course anytime I get to combine scrapbooking and Christmas is a GREAT time!