Xmas card: Watercolored snowflakes

What:

Another card technique that has been on my “to try” list — creating a background using some of the smaller stamps from a set and then loosely watercolouring over them.

Inspired by:

Any one of the large number of cards with loose watercoloured backgrounds that I have seen on Pinterest, Youtube, Instagram and the blogs I follow.

How:

I marked off the strip where the sentiment would go and covered the background by stamping several of the smaller snowflakes from the Lawn Fawn “frosties” stamp set; the gaps were filled in with the tiny sparkle and the star from the “joy to the woods” set.

Then I painted loosely over the snowflakes in some different blues and over the stars in yellow.

Once the watercolour was dry I stamped the sentiment strip. Then I decided to add a bit of sparkle by using iridescent medium to cover the stars and for a fine shiny spatter over the whole panel.

I added narrow strips of silver glitter tape above and below the sentiment, mounted the panel onto a blue card base, and added some gems between the repeating sentiments as the final touch.

Challenges:

Day 7 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Lawn Fawn – frosties
  Lawn fawn – joy to the woods
• inks:
  Ranger – archival – jet black
  Delicata – pigment ink – silvery shimmer
  Delicata – pigment ink – golden glitz
• colour:
  Windsor & Newton Cotman watercolours – cerulean blue hue, cobalt blue hue, ultramarine, cadmium yellow hue
• embellishments:
  Paperchase – glitter tape
  Kars – pearl adhesive stones – clear
• paper and card:
  Tim Holtz – watercolour paper
  Craftwork Cards – pearl – kings blue
• miscellaneous:
  Windsor & Newton – iridescent medium