Christmas wreaths

I coloured these wreaths just after the last Daily Marker challenge finished and they’d been sitting in my colouring box, forgotten, until the other day when I checked through my to-do list and spotted “Pick Xmas colouring out of stash and turn into cards”.

I love how these simple cards turned out — maybe I can do clean and simple as long as I don’t set out with the intention of creating a CAS card.

The key to making this design work was to find the right card to use on the card base. I quickly decided that the card base should be red, to match the berries and the bows. Then, to be nice and Christmassy, the panel should be gold, but all my gold card is far too shiny for this. I do have some harvest buckram card which has a lovely delicate texture but is a very boring light brown, which, it turns out, is the perfect base for Delicata golden glitz ink. A coat of gold ink gave it a lovely bit of shimmer to go with the texture.

I stamped the sentiment in black and then used fun foam to give the wreaths a bit of dimension.

Supplies:

• stamps:
  WPlus9 – festive greetings
• digital stamps:
  The Octopode Factory – Christmas wreath
• inks:
  Delicata – golden glitz
  Versafine – onyx black
• Copic markers:
  wreath with red ribbon
  leaves – G24, G28, G46
  berries – R89
  ribbon – R24, R29, R89
  wreath with pink ribbon
  leaves – G14, G07, G46
  berries – R29
  ribbon – RV23, RV25, RV29
• embellishments:
  Irresistible – pico embellisher – shimmer
• paper and card:
  Hunkydory Adorable Scorable – red
  Papermill Direct – harvest buckram
  Neenah solar white 216gsm