I stamped and watercoloured the mistletoe branch on mixed media cs and then carefully cut two narrow strips out of the panel on a diagonal.
I bordered each of those three pieces with dark gold cs and added fun foam to the back of each of them.
I carefully lined them up on the card base and drew pencil lines between them, then took them off and set them aside. I put the card base in my MISTI and stamped the two sentiments between my pencil lines. When the sentiments were dry, I erased the pencil lines and added the three image sections to the card base. Last step was adding some Stickles to the berries.
And another colour theme challenge is over at the Male Room where they are asking for team colours. I went with the Canadian Winter Olympics Team's colours of red, black, and white.
This stamp seemed ideal since it mentions "winter". I'm not a big sports fan but I do watch a lot of the Winter Olympics.
A very CAS card - stamped, watercoloured, bordered in black, and popped up on fun foam.
Thanks for stopping by today. More CAS Christmas tomorrow!
Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - white and dark gold cs, mixed media cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Stickles, watercolour paints, fun foam
Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Stamplorations
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - watercolour paper, white and black cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, fun foam
2 beautiful cards, Susan. I have not tried the split panel yet but love how that looks and how perfectly your sentiment fits the spaces. The second card does mention my favorite things of winter- SO true! Love the coloring on both of these.
ReplyDeleteBoth wonderful cards, but I'm here for the handsome masculine card and I LOVE it, great colouring and I love the wonderful words. Thank you so much for joining us in our Team Colours challenge at The Male Room this week. Looking forward to see you again next challenge.
ReplyDeleteFaith The Male Room DT
Beautiful cards Susan ... love the design on your first card! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Double D ‘Green’ challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
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Two fantastic Christmas cards Susan. LOVE the mistletoe with the split panels. It's such a great technique we learned at last year's retreat, but I'm sorry to say I have not used it since!! It works so perfectly on your card.
ReplyDeleteAnd love the warm cuppa hot chocolate in the Canadian Team colours. Perfectly CAS. xx
This mistletoe makes a very elegant Christmas card, Susan! Love how you've separated it with the diagonal cuts and how the sentiments fit so perfectly! Such a cozy winter card with thoughts of a warm blanket and cup of hot coffee!
ReplyDeleteFantastic split design card, Susan! The watercolored mistletoe branch is so beautiful, especially with a touch of shiny Stickles.
ReplyDeleteLooking at the second cool card, now I want to read something over a hot coco. :-)
It's rainy and cold here. Hideko xx
Susan two great cards. I love the cut up card it focuses on the sentiment and your hot chocolate is so heart warming :)
ReplyDeleteFabulous cards....thanks for joining our challenge at Double D!
ReplyDeleteDiane DD DT {Nellies Nest}
Oooh I love that mistletoe image....one more Christmas card down, way to go! Thanks so much for playing along with us at The Double D, Green and/or St. Patrick’s Day, Donna, DT Member.
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are wonderful but the mistletoe card is a stunner x.
ReplyDeleteA duo of wonderful cards. Great idea to use the green colour to create a Christmas card. Love the cut up design.
ReplyDeleteI SO agree with the sentiment. A very lovely, warm and fun card. Really like it. Thank you so much for joining our Team Colors challenge at The Male Room.
ReplyDeletex Lise Mariann, DT The Male Room