Christmas Foilage

Good evening folks

This is one of the samples that I made for some shows in Germany featuring Sheena's Christmas perfect partners Christmas stamp and die sets.

This card uses Yuletide greetings stamp set and Christmas foliage die set.

I began by making the background by scribbling kingfisher, jasmine and charcoal Spectrum Aquas onto a glass mat and spritzing with water. I then took a piece of watercolour card and "blotted" up then ink. The background piece on this card is the second "blotting".

I then stamped the evergreen boughs onto the background. I coloured directly onto the stamp with my Spectrum Aquas and then stamped them onto the background. I coloured the pine cones in a similar way but stamped them onto a separate piece of watercolour card and then using the dies cut and embossed them. I then pulled the colour out with a little water. To get the shading correct I removed some of the colour using water and a piece of kitchen paper. Using the same method I made the twigs.

The Spectrum Aquas I used were - 

• background - kingfisher, charcoal and jasmine
• pine cones - boulder, sepia, chestnut and chocolate
• twigs - chocolate and sepia
• evergreen boughs - moss and evergreen

The other ingredients used were - 

• white centura pearl (for the card base)
• silver centura pearl
• teal core'dinations
• snowflake embossing folder (from Crafter's Companion)

Thank you for stopping by today

Lesley