Saturday 5 November 2016

'Tis the Season

 Morning.

Well we are enjoying unseasonable warm temperatures here and I am busy making snowy cards.  
So meet today's card.  Another one done for the holidays.

I began by placing my evergreen stamp by Magenta into my Misti, coloured with markers, sprayed with water and stamped.  I wanted to add a snowy feel to my card so leaving the stamp inside my Misti, I took a Versamark pen and coloured on just portions of the tree branches and heat embossed with white. 
I love the effect it achieved.  
 I watercolored the background using Distress inks then white embossed the edges of my card as well.
The sentiment from PTI was stamped with black Memento ink and clear heat embossed to make it pop.
I splattered on some white acrylic paint over the whole piece as the finishing touch. 



Playing along in these challenges:

Brown Sugar- ANYTHING GOES

Morgan's ArtWorld- EMBOSSING




Have a great weekend and thanks!

Supplies:  stamps- Magenta, PTI/ MISTI/ markers/ mini mister/ ink- Distress, Memento/ Versamark pen/ wh eb powder, clear eb powder/ paintbrush

20 comments:

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

So VERY beautiful and Christmassy.
Faith
x

Bonnie said...

You always come up with the cleverest ideas, Karen! I'm so glad you share them! Will try this technique of putting snow on my branches! Another gorgeous Christmas card!

Verna Angerhofer said...

I do believe that every card you make becomes my all time favorite. I just love this design and the colors are just fabulous!

Princess Judy Palmer said...

Very awesome. I love the embossed needles you drew in over the watercolored branches. Such a neat effect.

Ina G said...

Absolutely stunning. No wonder you are happy with the result with your snowy feel - looks amazing. Another Christmas beauty Karen.

Craftychris said...

Beautiful! Love your added snow, fabulous! xxx

Robyn Oliver said...

Gorgeous card Karen, love it's softness

Creative world said...

Stunning Christmas card,love that frosty look,awesome idea...Thank you for joining us at ATSM challenge this week
Zeljka DT xo

Bobby said...

I feel like I keep repeating myself, Karen. This is wonderful. The touches of snow look great - on a card. ;)

Loll said...

Amazing card Karen. Love the artsy look of watercolouring and then selective heat embossing. You always have the BEST ideas! xx

Nstiz said...

You managed to achieve that icy look on your pines and the edges of the card! What a terrific technique! It looks so frosty! Beautiful watercoloring too, Karen!

Zw@@n said...

Oh my, this card is awesome, Karen. I love the watercolouring technique you used. Thank you for joining us at ABC Christmas Challenge. Luv, Wilma

shirley-bee said...

This is fantastic! You come up with such great ideas. The partial embossing of the needles is genius.

Rachel said...

beautiful card!!!

Susan said...

Love the snowy frosty look you got on the branches - great technique!

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

I have already commented on how beautiful this is, now with my DT hat on I am very happy to repeat it. Thank you for joining us at Morgan's Artworld. Faith DT.

Adventures in Paperland said...

This is beautiful! Thanks for joining us at ABC Christmas Challenge.
Lisa

Scrappin Sue said...

What a lovely Christmas card
Thanks for sharing at Brown Sugar Challenges x

Tanja said...

love the embossed snowy effect - thanks for sharing your creation at Addicted to Stamps and More

Unknown said...

Such a lovely Christmas Card. Thank you so much for joining us for our Embossing Challenge at Morgan's Art World.
Samantha (AngelicBadGirl) DT xx