Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Evergreen boughs

Hello folks

This is the last of my design team cards made for Sheena's recent shows in Germany.
I stamped the poinsettia with twinkle embossing powder onto watercolour card and added a little shading with slate Spectrum Aqua. I then coloured directly onto the stamps with my Spectrum Aquas and stamped onto watercolour card. I dragged the colour out a little with a damp paint brush and then added a little glitter to the edges of the pinecones.
I used the following Spectrum Aquas - 

  • poinsettia - slate (added just to the centre of the petals)
  • boughs - moss and evergreen
  • pinecones - chestnut, sepia and boulder

I made the background by scribbling onto a glass mat with kingfisher, charcoal and jasmine Spectrum Aquas, spritzing with water and then blotting with a piece of watercolour card. I then embossed the card with Sheena's evergreen embossing folder, sanded it back a little and then rubbed on some Pebeo silver gilding wax.
The other ingredients used were - 

  • Yuletide greetings and perfect poinsettia stamp sets from Sheena's Perfect Partners Christmas range
  • Christmas foliage and poinsettia die set from Sheena's Perfect Partners Christmas range
  • watercolour card
  • white and silver centura pearl
  • twinkle embossing powder
  • evergreen embossing folder from Sheena Douglass
  • sliver Hunkydory glitter
  • Pebeo silver gilding wax
  • dazzler from the Hobby House
Thank you so much for stopping by today


Lesley

5 comments:

  1. A super Christmas card Lesley, always love Poinsettias.

    B x

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  2. Hi Lesley, this is a beautiful Christmas card!
    Hugs Lynsey x

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  3. Hi Lesley this is a gorgeous Christmas card. Hugs Jackie

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  4. Wow Lesley! Stunning card and those cones look real! Love the background too. Hugs, Carol S.xx

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  5. This is simply stunning. Your colouring and shading is perfection. The colours, background and layout is just gorgeous. What a fabulous card x

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