Hello there my friends and welcome to the last card for my Handmade Holidays 2016 Series! Tomorrow, I will have that awesome gift box I spoke of the other day. I made a video for this fabulous box, as I have so much to share with you! I’m also pretty sure that the camera wasn’t turned on for a critical portion of the process. This is the video that I’m going to attempt to do a voiceover for. Say a prayer for me and for you!
In the meantime, I have a very beautiful and non-traditional Christmas card, but has the traditional Christmas colors, that I made with Altenew Stamps Persian Motifs. My sentiment is from the Sketchy Landmarks stamp set by Altenew as well. I used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors, that I haven’t broken out in forever it seems, and only used 4 colors of watercolors of 2 reds (30, 35) and 2 greens (53, 58) – and, of course, a Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Pen. I also have 3 clear sequins scattered for my visual triangle. I almost dreaded putting those on this otherwise perfect the way it is card, but it needed a little something that was not obvious.
The Wink of Stella pen can reactivate watercolor and any other coloring medium that is not permanent or heat set stable, so be sure to scribble out your pen off before moving to the next color or you will cross-contaminate.
This card is very simple to make and again, can be easily mass produced and colored in front of the TV. To make this pretty card, the instructions are below.
- For the base of your card, cut a piece of 100 lb. black card stock to a landscape A2 top folding card.
- Cut a piece of Bristol Smooth Watercolor Card Stock with MFT Blueprints 1. Place the card stock into your MISTI, position your images and sentiment where desired, use an embossing pad to cover the watercolor card stock, ink with Versafine Onyx Black, sprinkle clear embossing powder over the images and sentiment, shake off excess, then heat set.
- With the Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolor individual cubes to color the dark shadows on the flowers, use #35 Carmine Red and then blend out with #30 Cadmium Red
- To color the greenery, start with #58 Ever Green, to highlight your shadows and again, blend out with #53 Mid Green. You can speed up the drying process by hitting the image with your heat tool or let it dry on its own.
- Once the images are dry, color the flowers with a Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Pen. As above, be sure when switching colors, scribble out the remaining color from your glitter pen.
- Place extremely strong adhesive onto the back of your image panel and be generous. I used 1/2″ Scor-Tape, peeled off the backing and adhered the image panel to the black card stock base.
- Arrange and adhere three 6-mm clear sequins onto the images of the panel with glue dots in a visual triangle. The sequins are not obvious, but they added a little extra something to the card.
It’s really that easy! It was very hard not to grab my metallic Starry Colors, also by Gansai Tambi, and add a few controlled splatters here and there.
Thank you so very much for stopping by to visit me today. I hope that you have a great day and God bless!
