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Merry Christmas Watercolor Card

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Other, Winter Holidays

Hello everyone!! Laurie here back to share a Christmas card with one of my favorite stamp sets!!  Its called Origami Winter and it’s just fabulous!!

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I started by heat embossing the tree, the present and the star in white embossing powder on some watercolour cardstock.  If you look closely, I stamped a couple of stockings as well but messed up and overlapped them.  It’s ok, i ended up cutting that side off :).

My watercoloring medium of choice lately has been the Stabilo 68 markers.  I have the set of 30 but really want them all!!  I find these pens/markers so easy to work with and the colors are super vibrant!!!
I coloured my images in with traditional Christmas colours: red, green and a touch of gold and did a light wash of blue behind.  I trimmed the panel down to approximately 3.5 X 5.5.
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You can see here that I have everything adhered. I used some gold glitter tape directly on the card base and used some sequins from the Classic Christmas Sequins Fusion mix.  What you don’t see here is the sentiment.  I ALWAYS do this to myself!!!  But I wasn’t going to give up!!  I placed my card into my Mini Misti and chose a sentiment, which is also from the Origami Winter set.
Now because the background was watercolored AND heat embossed, I knew that the sentiment was likely not going to stamp perfectly, and I was right.  I used Versafine Black Onyx ink and there is one tiny place that the sentiment overlapped some of the white embossing and didn’t stamp.  I could have stamped it on a tiny strip and just adhered it over but I really didn’t want any distractions from the background.  In the end, I LOVE IT!!!!  And I hope you do too!! 🙂

Thank you so much for stopping by today!!

Laurie
Supplies Used: Origami Winter Clear Stamp Set, Classic Christmas Fusion, Mini Misti Stamping Tool

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Studio Tour

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Here’s a small tour of my creative space! I’m really happy with the results. It’s missing a few personal touches, I haven’t decided what exactly I want to put on the walls.

This is the view as you enter! #iloveikea

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That used to be a walk-in closet! I decided to remove the doors for easy entry. Now, not only I want a door but also a huge lock!!! Lev goes in there constantly, with his mini bucket! 🙂

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Better View! It’s like a mirror image! With the “mess” 🙂

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Inside of the closet.

 

This is I think my favorite part of the studio. My station! It was a challenge to find something that would fit perfectly and had drawers. Cube shelves are a HUGE bonus. I keep my stamps in white bins and dies in square clear containers (if you live in Canada you can get them cheaper at Winners and/or Home Sense). I also use the same containers to store large stamp sets (like Tim Holtz, My Favourrite Things, Altenew, stencils and background rubber stamps.)

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I love this tray, it’s actually for make up but I like the handle. I can just pick it up and move it to the table when I need it. The wall container is from IKEA. You can look it up here. I store my ‘essentials’ like scoring boards, paper trimmer, foam tape, cutting boards, it fits all that.  I don’t really like using baby wipes, I like to use car detailing towels or Lawn Fawn shammy. This container is perfect to keep your stamp cleaner towel moist and smell – free. Thanks for the tip Jennifer McGuire.

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Lastly is the desk area. Yes it’s a heater, and believe it or not, I use it in the summer too. Since the studio is in the basement, it can get cold. I usually wear a long sleeve shirt when I’m down here working. Lev’s got his own little desk.

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Thanks for stopping by!

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