Christmas Joy

Hello and Welcome

Penny Black has a great new release happening and this Homespun wreath stamp is one in the Christmas series.

When I saw the stamp I loved the look but when I put it into my Misti to stamp with it, a new idea came to mind to use it in a new way. 

So here is the stamp and what I did.

I began by positioning the stamp into my Misti, using just the evergreen and cones at the top of my card front.  Using my Tombow markers, I coloured in the evergreens with 2 different shades of green and pressed onto my paper.  I coloured the cones with some brown and did the same.  

By using the markers, I was able to apply ink only where I wanted it and was able to eliminate the branches part of the stamp.

When I was happy with the inking, I left the stamp right where it was and rotated my card in the Misti so the top stamping was now at the bottom.  I repeated colouring in my stamp and pressed onto my card front.  The two areas met up and merged perfectly together to create the wreath.

I took a wet paintbrush and pulled some of the colour on the pinecones to colour them in.

I stamped the sentiment from the Thrill of Hope sentiment set, then mounted the wreath onto a piece of dark green cardstock and onto a heavy white card base.

To finish off my card, I added some little red pearls to look like the berries.

It was so simple to get this unique looks from this stamp and it's nice to be able to get a totally different look using it.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Winter Wonderland- USE A FAV EMBELLISHMENT

(small pearls)

Brown Sugar- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Homespun (PB); Thrill of Hope (PB)

Inks- Tombow Markers; Versafine Clair Nocturne

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); green cs

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); red pearls; paintbrush