Tidings of Comfort and Joy!
Good morning! Jess here with another Christmas card…can you tell I’m starting to stock up for the holidays? 😉 One of my favorite things to do when I’m designing for a store rather than a stamp company is to combine companies! Often I see new releases and I immediately think of how wonderfully they’d work with another existing stamp from another company. Most recently I saw the fabulous sentiment set from Avery Elle, Comfort and Joy, and couldn’t wait to pair it with a beautiful floral set from Poppy Stamps, Poinsettia Peace. And here’s what I came up with!
I started by prepping a piece of Canson Montval watercolor paper with the Inkadinkado powder bag and then stamped the sentiment and florals onto the paper with versamark. Next I heat-embossed them with gold tinsel embossing powder. Seriously, I could have stopped right there…those images and the sentiment seem like they were meant to go together!
But I decided to go ahead and add a little color! Using a slightly damp paintbrush and my trusty zig markers I added Geranium Red and Wine Red to the flowers and Marine Green to the pine sprigs. Again I could have stopped at this point but I decided that I wasn’t a fan of the slightly yellowish tint of the watercolor paper…
So I got brave and with some guidance and encouragement from my friend, Emily, I added a light wash of Emerald Green. Working in small sections I outlined the flowers and words with the zig marker and then immediately used a wet paintbrush to move the watercolor around. I’m not quite comfortable with the technique yet but I really like how it turned out!
I feel like the green shadow really makes the red pop! To finish the card I added a few metallic gold sequins and trimmed the watercolor paper down before adhering it to a red cardstock frame. To be very honest the most time consuming part of this card was the background watercolor wash. This would be a very easy card to mass-produce for a holiday card if you just wanted to watercolor the floral images and I hope it inspires you to get started on your holiday cards! Thanks so much for visiting and have a wonderful day!
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Tags: Avery Elle, Memory Box, poppystamps, ZIG Clean Color Real Brush
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Comments (8)
Lou Wittmer
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Lovely card! Enjoy following your thought process as you design. Nice addition with the background wash. Great that Emily is leading you into new techniques!
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Melissa Friedrich
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Beautiful watercoloring, love the background color wash. It was definitely worth the extra time.
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Amy C.
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Beautiful…I love it!
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Lisaerica
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So pretty Jess! I really like the shadow wash, and yes the green makes the red pop. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
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Maggie B
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Hi Jess ~ The color-wash was so worth every second you spent on it. The results are absolutely beautiful. Emily definitely steered you in the right direction with this and I look forward to seeing more! Have an awesome weekend!! ~HUGS~
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FeM
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This card so elegant … before and after the watercoloring.
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Trina P.
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So pretty.
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Beverly Jordan
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Your card is stunning!!
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