ZIG Clean Color Markers used on today’s project:

070 Orange, 052 Bright Yellow, 050 Yellow, 067 Mustard, 064 Oatmeal, 065 Mid Brown, 022 Carmine Red,

041 Lt. Green, 047 May Green, 043 Olive Green

Thank you for stopping by today!

Have a great day!

Avery Elle	VersaFine Pigment Ink Pad – Onyx Black (Tsukineko)	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 047 May Green	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 070 Orange
ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 050 Yellow	Zig Clean Color	Zig Clean Color	ZIG Clean Color	ZIG Clean Color
ZIG Clean Color	Zig Clean Color

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Hello there! Clare here today, with a pastel dragon!

Not gonna lie, I am a HUGE fan of My Favorite Things Birdie Brown releases – it’s pretty much the only stamp set release I buy as soon as it comes out!

The new Magical Dragons stamp set was no exception! For today’s card, I colored my dragon using ZIG Violet, Light Violet, and some water for the main body, Pale Pink for the wings (topped with Clear Wink of Stella) and the belly, and then Ochre for the spine, toes and horns. After coloring, I die cut the dragon – I love how the My Favorite Things dies are now open, so you can die cut precisely. There’s nothing I hate more than going through all the work of coloring something, only to die cut it incorrectly!

I pretty much created the rest of the card around the dragon, so first I created a starry background, blending Spun Sugar and Victorian Velvet on a die cut background. I backed the die cut with some glitter cardstock, but if you don’t have any, you can make your own by heat embossing gold sparkle WOW! powder.

I used the embossing powder to heat emboss my sentiment on some black cardstock, and I topped it with a die-cut white frame.

The dragon is finished off with some heat embossed vellum clouds.

Thanks so much for stopping in today and God bless!

My Favorite Things Clear Stamp Set – BB Magical Dragons	Magical Dragons Die-namic Set (My Favorite Things)	Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock 8.5	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush	Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Marker (Zig)
Stitched Rectangle STAX Die Set (My Favorite Things)	Lawn Fawn Cardstock Black Licorice	Hero Arts Hues Dye Ink Pad – Black	Victorian Velvet Distress Ink Pad (Ranger Tim Holtz)	Spun Sugar Distress Ink Pad (Ranger Tim Holtz)
Spun Sugar MINI Distress Ink Pad (Ranger Tim Holtz)	Heat It Craft Tool (Ranger)	Embossing Magic Pad (Inkadinkado)	VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad	Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape .5″ (Scotch)
Ink Blending Tool 1″ Round (Ranger)	Round Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam (Ranger)

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!

Supplies:

Memory Box Poppystamps Clear Stamp Set – Poinsettia Peace	Avery Elle Clear Stamp Set – Comfort & Joy	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 029 Geranium Red	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 024 Wine Red	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 048 Emerald Green
ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker – 400 Marine Green	Kuretake Gansai Tambi Set of 6 – Starry Colors	Pretty Pink Posh Solid Cupped Sequins – Metallic Gold	Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock – 8.5	Bazzill Card Shoppe Paper – Peppermint 8.5
Inkadinkado Embossing Magic	VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad	Ranger Heat It Craft Tool

The Greeting Farm’s Jesus is the Way stamp set includes a lot of word stamps.  I decided to use a variety of them to stamp onto the page. I am highlighting the words on a certain verse. In between some of the words and the empty spaces, I stamped the butterfly image or the trio of hearts stamp. The butterflies are colored in with a variety of yellow and orange ZIG Clean Color Markers.

To finish the page, I used a piece of washi tape to attach the strip of paper with the angel image. The tape is placed at the top of the strip (Half on the paper strip and half on the Bible page.) This allows you to flip up the strip to see the stamped verse underneath.

Markers used on today’s project:

Angel – Chameleon Markers (NU0, NU2, NU4, BR5)

Butterflies – ZIG Clean Color Markers (Bright Yellow 052, Yellow 050, Black 010P)

Thank you for stopping by today!

Have a great day!

The Greeting Farm

Chameleon Alcohol Color Tone Markers

ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Markers

VersaFine Pigment Ink Pad – Onyx Black (Tsukineko)

Pink Paislee

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