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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Saturday, 19 September 2026

Candy Canes with Pine Branches

Peace on Earth challenge has a very delicious-looking mood board.  I chose the bottom right image for my inspiration.

I stamped the image and sentiment on watercolour paper, and then watercoloured it with regular watercolour paints on most of it, but shimmer watercolour paints on the ornaments and ribbon.  I trimmed the panel with a rectangle die, bordered it with metallic gold cs, and added it to an off-white card base.

There's lots of other tasty-looking inspiration from the rest of the Peace on Earth Design Team.  Take a look at our mood board and see if it inspires you to join us.
 



It's also being entered in Sparkles Christmas Challenge "include something sweet".

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Supplies:
Stamps - Stampendous candy canes, Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, dull gold metallic cs, off-white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, metallic watercolour paints, rectangle die

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5 comments:

  1. Lisa Elton20 September 2026 at 09:56

    Love the big candy canes, this is pretty!

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  2. Pat20 September 2026 at 12:35

    This is such an elegant and beautiful Christmas card Susan, and I love the image with the foliage and candy canes, and the pretty gold baubles and gold edged ribbon and also a coordinating gold matted layer. x

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  3. Loll21 September 2026 at 07:30

    Beautiful watercolouring of this darling image, Susan. I love the gold ornaments and framing. xx

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  4. Darlene 21 September 2026 at 08:04

    Beautifully done Susan! Love the image and your coloring is perfect!

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  5. Melanie Hungerford25 September 2026 at 08:47

    How pretty, love that soft water coloring! Thanks for joining us at Sparkle Christmas Challenge.

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