This was not the direction I had set out for. The bg is white text vellum with shimmer water color paints added then sprayed paper with water to soaking wet to let the colors collide. I thought the effect would be very soft colors with shimmer. They do shimmer but turned out very bold. I let to paper dry on the craft station over night then stamped the trees. The focal tree was first stamped in black but it was not a good stamping, so I re-inked the stamp in dark green and re-stamped. This turned out very cool so I went in with black marker and added limbs and then a fan brush with white acrylic added the snow. Finished off the bg with black and white splatter and trimmed to size. Sponged on some gray with paper mask for rolling hills. Ran the piece through embossing machine with a piece of wall paper to get the rough linen look. Mounted this on white cs base after rubbing edges with black ink pad. Snowflakes are Silhouette cut in white cs and the sentiment was stamped on acrylic then heat set in gold. I hand trimmed the piece and mounted on b&w strip of pp then attached.
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Amazing! Love all the details!
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Awesome colors and elements for the background for your trees. Love this one.
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You sky is lovely! The colors look so vibrant and would be beautiful to see in the sky.
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Your background is awesome. Love the snowflakes and the gold embossed sentiment.
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All the stamping, inking and painting look amazing. And then the added gold and white die cuts take it over the top! Love that banner as well. Gorgeous!!
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Bonnie you really put your all into this beautiful card! Love the gorgeous pines, and of course, those pretty snowflakes, and the glimpse of the Aurora!
Thanks for sharing with Inspired By!
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Such a beautiful card, Bonnie – love the background and the white snowflakes are a perfect accent! So pleased to see your lovely card in our challenge this week! Betty
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Beautiful!!! Another awesome background.
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Bonnie, it’s beautiful! Thanks for joining us for the last Rainbow Card Challenge.
Hugs,
Em, DT Co-ordinator
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This is a piece of art Kersey! I love that you described your creative process and rolled with it when things didn’t turn out as you had imagined. Those bold colours work so well for a festive background and I love the embossed texture and the splatters, and I love the dimension you created with your snowflakes and sentiment. Thank you for sharing at the Tic Tac Toe challenge! Vicky x
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Oh wow, gorgeous background as always, and your pines are gorgeous! Thank you for the inspiration @IB!
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This is beautiful! I love the background! Thank you for joining us at the Rainbow Card Challenge! Thank you for always participating in our challenges. We appreciate your support! Merry Christmas! 🙂
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