Stained glass robins

When I got this stamp, I did think that I would end up making more card variations with it — the stained glass style does lend itself to lots of different mediums and experiments — but then I didn’t actually need any more! By some miracle, I managed to make more cards than I ended up needing… But there is always next year 🙂

I heat embossed the robins twice and coloured one with watercolours and the other with Zig clean color real brush markers. Luckily I had a circle die that was just the right size to cut them out. Then I cut some larger circles, coloured them with Distress ink, and layered the robins over them.

I kept the background simple: just a panel of patterned paper with a little Distress ink along the edges.

I wasn’t going to put a sentiment on either of the cards, but then I misjudged placing one of the robins on the card base and had to add the banner to balance it out 🙄

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Pretty Quick – Christmas robin
  Clearly Besotted – mini basic banners
• dies:
  Sizzix – circles 2
  Lawn Fawn – stitched circles
  Clearly Besotted – mini basic banners
• Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers:
  bright robin
  022 carmine red, 024 wine red, 031 cobalt blue, 036 light blue, 040 green, 047 may green, 052 bright yellow, 060 brown, 062 dark brown, 064 oatmeal
• Daniel Smith watercolours:
  watercolour robin
  piemontite genuine, pyrrol scarlet, new gamboge, jadeite genuine, pthalo blue
• inks:
  Versamark
  Distress inks – tea dye, bundled sage
  Lawn Fawn – lobster
• embossing powder:
  Ranger – liquid platinum
  Judikins – detail silver
• paper and card:
  Strathmore Bristol
  Watercolour paper
  Hunkydory Adorable Scorable
  First Edition – paper pad – silent night
  First Edition – paper pad – gilded winter