Today's card was inspired by the 'Watercolour' themed challenge over at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. I CASEd some of my own cards, masking a triangle shape on some watercolour paper, wetting the area inside the tape with clean water, and blending various shades of green watercolour paint on to it. Once dry, I removed the tape, then used a black gel pen to doodle some strings of ornaments, colouring them in using a gold sparkly gel pen. I added a sentiment using a stamp from the 'Scribbly Christmas' set by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous, then matted the panel on to some gold mirror card before adding it to a white card blank.
- 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Watercolour
- AAA Cards - Anything CAS Goes
- Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
- My Time to Craft Christmas - Christmas Trees
- Piece on Earth - Anything Christmas Goes
- Simon Says Stamp (Mondays) - Christmas or Winter Cards
- Sparkles Forum Christmas - Use the Word Christmas
- The Male Room - Trees
Lovely CAS Christmas card, looks a great design to mass produce. thanks for playing along with us at AAA Cards this week Helen.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and love the pretty shimmery silver underneath!
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Simply BEAUTIFUL Helen! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Peace On Earth challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
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Love the simple elegance of your card. I spotted that Tim Holtz sentiment - do you know I bought the whole set just for that saying lol! Thanks for sharing with us at The Male Room
ReplyDeleteelle est adorable Helen, merci de jouer avec nous chez 52CCT, biz
ReplyDeleteHelen, a simple but beautifully executed holiday card! I love how you created the watercolor trees and hand decorated them!! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us at The Male Room!!! -Donna
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Christmas card. Thanks for playing at 52 CCT challange.
ReplyDeleteLovely card. Thank you for joining the challenge at My Time to Craft Christmas and Creative Fingers. Hope to see you again.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful card, I love your doodling and the scribbly sentiment. Love it. Thank you so much for joining us in our Trees challenge at The Male Room Good Luck and I hope you will join us in our next challenge.
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I love the simplicity of your card ,it just popped out of the thumbnails for me !
ReplyDeleteWow, i love the clean lines of your card. Such a beautiful crisp image too. Thanks for joining us over at Sparkles Christmas. Hugs Debs DT x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful masculine card. Thanks for sharing at The Male Room
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful Christmas tree, and the clean and simple layout emphasizes the wonderful water-colored tree. Thank you for joining us at the Sparkles Christmas Challenge. I hope to see you in the gallery again in November. Sue - DT
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