Peace on Earth

I have been playing with my Letraset Aquamarkers to create some watercolour backgrounds, with varying degrees of success. For my card below, I succeeded in creating a pretty wash of colour using Twilight blue and Bamboo (and I think I also scribbled some Fern onto my acrylic block palette).

I decided this was the perfect background for my Muse ChristmasVisions card, where Guest Muse Stephanie Lanzalotto had created the following card to inspire us:

I focused on the blue, green and red colours and the Peace on earth theme.

I stamped the map in Peeled paint distress oxide ink, wiping off the ink in the middle before stamping. I stamped the sentiment (Essentials by Ellen) in Candied apple DOI and then stamped 'peace' again using Versamark and heat embossed in irrdenscent sparkle embossing powder (Judikins). I also used this ep to heat emboss a small cluster of stars towards the top right of the map. I used a stitched rectangle die (SSS) to die cut my panel and adhered it to a schoolhouse red cardbase (SSS).

Challenges:

Muse ChristmasVisions - 85 Inspired by Stephanie

CAS Mix Up -  Stamping, watercolour wash +
die cutting, heat embossing