Happy Tuesday! I’m sharing with you a CHRISTMAS card today, created with the new Holiday Birdies set by Dina Wakley… and I have to say, it’s adorable and a great value for a stamp & stencil set!
My bird was stamped in black Archival ink on watercolor paper (the smooth side) and colored using Distress Inks as watercolor paints (Blueprint Sketch, Mermaid Lagoon & Carved Pumpkin for the bird, Wilted Violet for the hat). My background is a piece of watercolor left from a previous project, which matched really well with the Blueprint Sketch ink. I inked through Tim Holtz’s Christmas words stencil with Wilted Violet onto my background, then applied texture paste through a few of the snowflakes on the stencil in the birdies set and added some glass glitter to the paste while it was wet. I decided to add more glass glitter to the hat as well, applying Waterfall Stickles to double as adhesive & extra bling!
The card was assembled with some torn watercolor paper as a snow pile and a generous tie of Wilted Violet Crinkle ribbon 🙂 Foam squares to mount the bird add a bit of lift and allowed me to shape the hat a bit as well.
Hope you like my little card! I think I’ll be doing a few of these in different colors for fun… who knows, I may actually get some Christmas cards sent this year!
Have a creative day,
Inky hugs,
Tara
Happy Tuesday! I’ve been playing with some art journaling and thought I’d share a seasonal piece with you, once again playing with Dina Wakley’s new holiday set! The base of this piece is cardboard with book print (a paperback novel I paid 10 cents for!) and gesso.
