Winter Trees and Reindeer

For the Four Seasons challenge "winter", I was inspired by the bottom left image on their mood board (see below).

I created the background using the faux mother-of-pearl technique with various blue Distress inks and silver paint through a stencil.  The reindeer are die cut from silver matte cs and the sentiment is heat embossed in silver.

Four Seasons Challenge "winter"

Stencil Fun Challenge "Holiday"

 

Supplies:
Stamps - Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - various blue Distress inks, ColorBox silver
Paper - white and silver cs
Size - A2
Accessories - homemade tree stencil, silver paint, silver embossing powder, SU label punch

A Partridge and Some Polar Bears

Festive Friday is asking us to celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas.  We had to include at least three items from their list (see at the bottom of this post).  I have the partridge and the pear, there is gold in my background paper, and it's a Christmas card.

The image is watercoloured, trimmed with a stitched die, and popped up on fun foam on some dp.

Next up is a card for the Tic Tac Toe Challenge.  I chose the diagonal line that says Snow / Arctic Animal / Slimline.

The snowy background was created with a snowflake embossing folder and vellum.  I took a piece of navy blue cs and die cut "winter wishes" along the bottom.  I taped the vellum above that and folded it over the top edge and secured the top of it on the wrong side.  I die cut the polar bears and layered that over the bottom edge of the vellum (thus hiding the tape behind the vellum).  It's all added to a mini slimline card base.

Festive Friday

NBUS (Never Before Used Stuff) challenge - I've never used that stamp before.

 

Tic Tac Toe Challenge

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Inky Doodles
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, K&Co dp, cream cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Paper - white and navy cs, vellum
Size - 6.25x3.25"
Accessories - snowflake embossing folder, polar bear die, TH winter wishes die

More Metallic Colours on Black

Here's another of my final results of painting with metallic watercolours on black watercolour paper.

Like the earlier one, the image and sentiment are heat embossed in gold on black watercolour paper and then painted with Twinkling H2Os.  I splattered with watered down gold and white acrylic paint, bordered in gold shimmer cs, and mounted on a white card base.

Linking up with:

The Flower Challenge "Christmas"

Penny Black Saturday Challenge "Christmas"

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black poinsettia / holly stamp, Paper Smooches sentiment
Ink - ColorBox gold
Paper - white cs, gold shimmer cs, black watercolour paper
Size - A2
Accessories - Twinkling H2Os, white and gold acrylic paints

Christmas Colours on Black

At a recent crafty zoom get together, we used metallic watercolours to paint images on black watercolour paper.  I loved it and have since continued to use the technique. 

I used the colours of the newest Color Throwdown - red, black, green, and gold.

I heat embossed the image with gold embossing powder on black watercolour paper, then coloured with my Twinkling H2Os.    I added some gold splatter but decided it also needed a some white splatter to lighten it up a bit.  I trimmed the panel, popped it up on fun foam on a gold card base, and added a Tim Holtz stick-on sentiment.

Color Throwdown

Jingle Belles - Anything Christmas

Winter Wonderland - End of Year Anything Christmas Goes

Sweet Stamping - Christmas Creations

Supplies:
Stamps - Serendipity holly
Ink - ColorBox gold
Paper - black watercolour paper, gold shimmer cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Twinkling H2Os, white and gold acrylic paint, TH stick on sentiment, Spellbinders square die, fun foam

Embossed and Stencilled Snow

I live in Vancouver, Canada and we normally have mild rainy winters but we've already had two periods of extra cold snowy weather.  So this card is perfect for what I see when I look out my windows.

The background for the focal panel was done with blue acrylic paint and a dotted stencil on a gelli plate. I die cut the house / trees and stuck a small piece of gold cs behind the windows of the house, then stamped and heat embossed my sentiment on it, and bordered it with the same gold cs. I ran the card base through a dotted embossing folder.

Tic Tac Toe Challenge - I chose the top horizontal row of snow, stencil, tree.

Time Out Challenge - winter / holiday

 

 

Supplies:
Stamps - PB sentiment
Ink - ColorBox gold
Paper - white and gold cs
Size - A2
Accessories - gold embossing powder, Cuttlebug dotted embossing folder, blue acrylic paint, dotted stencil, house / tree die

A Notecard for National Letter Writing Day

Slipping in under the wire for a challenge at Festive Friday to celebrate National Letter Writing Day.

I've got three of the required elements for the challenge - script, postmark, and embossing folder.

I pulled out a bit of blue background (created by sprinkling Brushos on mixed media cs and spritzing with water) from my unused backgrounds box and stamped and heat embossed the postcard collage image. Trimmed it and bordered it with black. I used a postcard collage embossing folder on the card base. 

Supplies:
Stamps - bird / postcard collage stamp
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white, black, and mixed media cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing powder, Sizzix embossing folder, blue brushos