Stamps

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