This is Day Three in the October release at MHK Designs and we're thinking Christmas for the next two days. Today's set is called "Wonderful Wreath" and it's such a classic Christmas image. You'll find a photo of the complete set at the bottom of this post.
I used my watercolor pencils and gamsol to color this time but I'm using this same image for a few more cards and I'm coloring each one with a different medium. I'm thinking I'll include watercolor paints, alcohol markers, and my Lyra Polychromos pencils at a minimum. I'll share those as I get them finished.
Once colored, I used a die from Spellbinders to cut the image and the frame. I mounted those, inlaid together, onto deep red CS and then put that onto a lighter red card base. In order to have some differentiation between to two shades of red, I drew a white border with a fine-point, gel pen.
The snowflake was made by die cutting (Spellbinders) the various layers and fastening them together with a pearl brad. I still wanted the overall design to be on the simple side so that snowflake is the only embellishment. Finally, I fussy cut one of the sentiments and added it to the bottom of the framed image.
Challenges:
613 Avenue Create
Christmas Cards
Colour Crazy Craft
Crafty Awesomeness
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas
Creative Fingers
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends
Not Just Cards
Petal Lu
Southern Girls
Whoopsi Daisy
Be sure to check out the MHK Designs blog and visit the rest of the DT members to see what they've done with this beautiful Christmas set. Then, come visit again tomorrow when I'll have a second Christmas themed card using a completely different set. Happy Stamping. NanaConnie
Wonderful Wreath
I started by using the sketch at Sweet Sketch Weds.
but I turned it halfway around.
I used my watercolor pencils and gamsol to color this time but I'm using this same image for a few more cards and I'm coloring each one with a different medium. I'm thinking I'll include watercolor paints, alcohol markers, and my Lyra Polychromos pencils at a minimum. I'll share those as I get them finished.
Once colored, I used a die from Spellbinders to cut the image and the frame. I mounted those, inlaid together, onto deep red CS and then put that onto a lighter red card base. In order to have some differentiation between to two shades of red, I drew a white border with a fine-point, gel pen.
The snowflake was made by die cutting (Spellbinders) the various layers and fastening them together with a pearl brad. I still wanted the overall design to be on the simple side so that snowflake is the only embellishment. Finally, I fussy cut one of the sentiments and added it to the bottom of the framed image.
Challenges:
613 Avenue Create
Christmas Cards
Colour Crazy Craft
Crafty Awesomeness
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas
Creative Fingers
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends
Not Just Cards
Petal Lu
Southern Girls
Whoopsi Daisy
Be sure to check out the MHK Designs blog and visit the rest of the DT members to see what they've done with this beautiful Christmas set. Then, come visit again tomorrow when I'll have a second Christmas themed card using a completely different set. Happy Stamping. NanaConnie
Wonderful Wreath
