Die Cut Printed Holly

A card for a bunch of challenges:

I created the background using the technique in this month's CAS Mix Up challenge.  Instructions can be found in this video.

I die cut the long branch of holly, then watercoloured it with different shades of Zig Watercolour markers, spritzed with water, and pressed onto watercolour paper a couple of times.  I then dried my die cut and added it as the focal image.  Stamped the sentiment (it didn't come out that well as my ink was dry), popped the panel up on fun foam on a pale green shimmer card base, and added some gemstones for berries.

Off to these challenges:

CAS Mix Up Watercolour Challenge

 

52 Christmas Card Throwdown 

 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge 

 Jingle Belles "Going Green - Holiday Foliage"

Casology

Supplies:
Stamps - A Muse sentiment
Ink - Memento Cottage Ivy
Paper - watercolour paper, pale green shimmer cs
Size - 6.25x3.5"
Accessories - Memory Box Holly Vine die, fun foam, red gemstones, Zig watercolour markers

Zoomed Snowflakes

Darnell and Loll organized a Zoom get together for a few of us recently and Loll led us through a new technique of creating a background by printing with die cut shapes.

I went with snowflakes as I really need to work on my Christmas card stash.

We were inspired by the technique shown in this video by Kathy of The Daily Marker.

I die cut three snowflakes, inked them up by spritzing them with water and then smooshing them into various blue distress inks that I'd pressed onto my craft mat.  I pressed them onto watercolour paper repeatedly to create the background.

I let the three die cuts dry and then glued them to a second set of the same die cuts to give them more substance and added them to the background.

I stamped a sentiment and trimmed the panel into a square, bordered it with navy cs, and popped it up on a piece of fun foam.

We decided to do a mini blog hop so that you could see what each of us made.  Here are the links to the others' cards:

Bonnie

Brenda

Christine

Darnell

Loll

I hope you enjoy seeing what each of us created while zooming together!

Supplies:
Stamps -
Ink -
Paper - white and navy cs, watercolour paper
Size -
Accessories -