Inspired Robin and Background

For the new Peace on Earth challenge, I was totally inspired by the mood board (see below, the top right image).  I immediately thought of a stamp I have of a robin sitting on a holly branch.  And I wanted to recreate the snowy grey background.

I started by stamping the image and watercolouring it.  I then stamped it again on masking paper, fussy cut it, and masked the watercoloured image.

My crafty Zoom group did a technique recently where we made backgrounds by using gesso through a stencil to create a resist.  This is one of them.  I made a stencil by using a die of multiple small snowflakes.  I laid the stencil over my panel and went over it with white gesso.  This created a faint resist of small snowflakes.  I sponged with two shades of grey blue ink.  I removed the mask from the bird and holly and splattered with a bit of watered down gesso.

I added a few snowflakes die cut from the same die I used to create the stencil and a die cut sentiment.  And finished off by going over the snow on the branch and holly with a quickie glue pen and some glitter (sorry - it's hard to see the sparkle in the photo).

Here's the Peace on Earth mood board that inspired me:

 

Please come and join us at Peace on Earth.  You can either be inspired by the mood board or enter an "anything Christmas goes" card.

I'm also entering it in Sparkles Christmas Challenge "Festive Things with Wings".

And the Winter Wonderland Challenge "Robin Redbreast".

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Altenew Arctic, Archival Pearlescent Ice Blue
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, masking paper, white gesso, glitter, Spellbinders Noel die, Cheery Lynn snowflakes die