Friday 5 January 2018

Believe in the Magic

I'm back with another card. I'm still playing with my new Tombow dual brush markers, and also with a new Winnie and Walter stamp set that I bought during the Black Friday sales and which arrived just before Christmas.


When this stamp set (Sweet Holiday with Evelin T Designs) was released back in November, I immediately fell for the stamp I used on my card today.

Based on the swatches I had made (different watercolour mediums on different types of watercolour card), I decided to start by stamping the image onto my cheapest, smooth watercolour cardstock (200 gsm) twice so that I could play with the various marker colours. I did get some bleeding outside of my stamped image, but otherwise I was so happy with the results that I decided to fussy cut my image out and use it on a card right away.

To create my background, I started with a panel of Canson Montval 300 gsm and used blue painter's tape to mask off the lower portion of my panel and tape down my panel to a piece of board. After scribbling on my colours using my Tombow markers, I spritzed liberally with water and used a heat tool to move and dry the paint.

After die cutting my panel (Custom panels, Avery Elle) and heat embossing my sentiment in white (SSS), I placed the fussy cut image onto my panel without adhering, so that I could add snow to the background as well as the image by flicking Gansai Tambi white gold paint on top.

I adhered my panel to my card base using liquid glue and then foam-mounted my image.

I'm playing at:

W&W - Color Combo with Heather H


Jingle Belles - Look what Santa (Marianne) brought me

SSS Wednesday - Something new

ATSM - #273 Holiday


HLS Watercolour - Anything goes


HLS Christmas - Anything goes









12 comments:

  1. I can see why you fell for that stamp - it's absolutely adorable! And the background is marvelous...
    Cheers
    Barbara

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  2. Awesome background and card ;o) Love all the texture ;o) Happy crafting, Maike

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  3. Ooh, aah, Wauw.๐Ÿ’•Ineke๐Ÿ˜˜

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  4. Loving the colours of this oh so sweet card Marianne.

    Happy New Year.

    B x

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  5. Wow! That background is GORGEOUS and I love the sweet little scene you created to go on top of it! Thanks so much for joing us at Happy Little Stampers January Christmas Challenge!

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  6. Love your beautiful inky sky ... so very glad you joined our first prompt of 2018 at Jingle Belles.

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  7. Adorable, love the beautiful background. Such a sweet card.
    Thanks for playing along with us at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge x

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  8. First I love the purple background there
    looks amazing and ooh what a cute image
    those critter help each other to bring the tree home..
    Cute Christmas card I have ever seen today as I commenting the participant :)
    Many thanks for joining with us at ATSM this time
    hugs
    Monika (DT)

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  9. what an amazingly lovely, totally artful card and a brilliant use of that beautiful new stamp! love, love, looooove this, missus! so pleased you could join our JINGLE BELLES fun! ♥

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  10. What a gorgeous background and I love that you masked off a part but splattered snowflakes over it after! Thanks for joining us at Addicted to Stamps and More and we hope to see your wonderful creations again soon! Cheers, Gwendolyn

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  11. Cute and lovely card,
    Thank you for Joining us at Happy Little stampers and waiting to see next time.

    Hugs
    Meena HLS WC DT

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  12. I can see why you fell in love with that image - it is so cute - wonderful card
    Thanks for joining us at HLS
    Barb Housner (DT)

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