Inkspirational #148 and 25 Days of Christmas Tags - 10

Inkspirational  wants a neutral Christmas card and I wanted to use my PB pinecone so it was a match made in heaven.

There are a few things I would have done differently but it's done and not too bad.  You can't really call this no-line coloring because there isn't much color. ;)  I stamped the image in Frayed Burlap DI (next time I'll chose a lighter color) and then watercolored it with Gathered Twigs, Ground Expresso and Vintage Photo for the berries which doesn't show well in the photo.  I used Antique Linen for the background.  I'm not sure I like that choice but it had to be a neutral.  The sentiment was heat embossed with Liquid Platinum.   I tried to splatter some white for snow but nothing would show up, not even acrylic paint.

I'm glad I got a chance last night to make a tag for Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags.  The inspiration is over and there are only two days left to enter.  This one was inspired by Tracey's tag on day 10 when Winnie and Walter were the sponsors.  Here's Tracey's cute little snowman.

My only Christmas W&W stamps are owls so I used one for my tag.

The weather has been warmer than normal here and yesterday my husband suggested we hang our big Christmas bell.  These are bells that used to hang around the park in the center of town for years until they got new ones and sold off the old ones.  I prefer the older style and so do many other people.  When any of these bells become available they now command a high price. You have to understand that Ken's not into Christmas at all so this really took me by surprise but I jumped at it and we got all our outside decorations done.  And it isn't even December yet.  (Big smile)

The Heart Desires #13 and The Flower Challenge #9

When I saw The Heart Desires mood board I knew I wanted to try no-line watercoloring with a PB Dahlia.  The first one came out better than I expected so I continued on.

I masked and stamped a new flower beside the first one but the edge didn't stamp well and the coloring wasn't as good.  Now what?  I fussy cut the first one and then stamped another flower and colored it.  That one turned out okay so I fussy cut that one and the part of the second one and layered them up on the front of my Soft Stone card base.  It needed something so I cut a frame from Smoke cardstock before adding the SSS word die cut in Smokey Shadow.  The screen looks a lot brighter than the soft subtle look of the Twisted Citron IRL.

The challenge at The Flower Challenge is 'anything goes' so I'm sending my card there too.

Thank you for dropping by.  I hope your week got off to a good start.