Oh Christmas Tree

Welcome

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas despite this nasty virus.

I'm in Ontario, Canada and we are in a lock down again although our numbers are not nearly what they are in the U.S.  I'm so thankful that our Government here has taken mandatory steps to help fight this.

I'm off work for awhile, so card making is on the agenda.

I did make this card a few weeks ago but never had time to post it.

So here's what I did to create this card.

• I began with a piece of paint roll off from my brayer when I was using my Gel Plate. (*to clarify:  when you are using a Gel Plate, you must brayer off paint from the plate to make it smooth before taking a print.  I always roll onto scrap paper and keep them for card fronts*) I keep all the roll offs to use as backgrounds or even to use for die-cutting.  This one just had a faint bit of greens on it so that was my starting point.
• I placed the piece into my Misti, then positioned the Evergreen from Darkroom Door, over the painted bkg.  Using my Tombow markers, I coloured directly onto my stamp, sprayed with water and pressed onto the paper.  I repeated that process a number of time using different shades of green inks.  It really does give the appearance of watercolouring.
• When the branches were dry, I used the end of my paintbrush to dot some red paint over the branches to look like berries.  (for some reason they would not photograph red!)
• I stamped the sentiment from SU with some Versafine Clair in the bottom corner and clear heat embossed it.
• To add more interest, I added the green lines using an old credit card rubbed onto my Peeled Paint Distress Oxide pad.  
• I mounted the piece onto some green cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.
• Lastly, I added 3 little black gems under the sentiment.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Evergreen (Darkroom Door); Happy Holidays (SU)

Inks- Tombow markers; Versafine Clair; Distress Ox

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems; Mister (TH); old credit card;

clear eb powder; heat tool; brayer to paint the bkg.