A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Sunday, 5 August 2018

Greenery

A Christmas card for The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up, with optional theme of "greenery":


I put the stamp in my MISTI and inked up with various Memento Dew Drops, and then watercoloured the image.  When finished, I inked up the stamp with Versamark and stamped over it again, then carefully added regular clear embossing powder to most of it, but a sparkly embossing powder to the ribbon.

I did a very pale blue wash around the image and added a heat embossed sentiment, then mounted it on a brown card base.  I added red gems to the berries.





Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black greenery, Paper Smooshes sentiment
Ink - various Memento Dew Drop inks, Versamark, Memento Rich Cocoa
Paper - watercolour paper, brown cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear and sparkly embossing powder, watercolour paints, red gems



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9 comments:

  1. Mac Mable6 August 2018 at 07:50

    Such a beautiful card and love the effect of the inks and markers and the water colouring. Great idea to pop some glitter embossing powder only on the ribbon. Beautiful card x.

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  2. Christine Alexander6 August 2018 at 14:26

    Beautiful Susan, your direct to stamp colouring is perfect and the versamark really makes it pop.

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  3. Bonnie6 August 2018 at 16:09

    How clever to use two kinds of embossing powder! Beautiful greenery and gorgeous bow!

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  4. Trina P.6 August 2018 at 19:24

    Beautiful watercolouring and card. Love the glittery embossed bow. xx

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  5. Pat7 August 2018 at 09:22

    This is a beautiful card, Susan. Thank you for telling us about the process of creating it. And thank you for sharing with us at the 12 Months of Christmas Link-Up.

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  6. Loll9 August 2018 at 17:22

    So pretty! Lots of details on this gorgeous card Susan. Love the shimmery of the ribbon, the shine of the berries, and the beautiful watercolouring! xx

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  7. Papercraft Boutique12 August 2018 at 11:20

    Beautiful watercoloring, Susan! Adding clear heat-embossing to the stamped image worth the extra time and effort! Love that you did the pale blue wash in the background. Hideko xx

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  8. Donna23 August 2018 at 15:02

    Susan, this is gorgeous! I love your coloring. Thanks so much for joining us at 12 MOnths of Christmas Link Up. Hope to see you join the challenge again the in future.

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  9. Julie Odil27 August 2018 at 12:27

    So pretty! Thanks for joining us this month at the 12 Months of Christmas Link Up. Julie, DT member

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