Baroque Christmas

As I played with the Snow Swirled set this weekend I noticed how well it co-ordinated with the flourish from Baroque motifs.  So I created a little snow storm!  This card actually took me quite a while because I couldn’t settle on the colour combination.  Perfect Plum and Pale Plum work together but neither Bravo Burgandy nor Eggplant Envy work as a darker colour with them.  I ended up using just a little Bravo Burgandy and a bit of Black in the darkest areas of sponging.

Perhaps next time I do one like this I should take pictures as I go.  First I stamped the tree and the snowflakes in versamark on separate pieces of Whisper White cardstock and embossed with clear e.p.  I cut a piece of paper into the shape of a gently rolling hill and laid it across the bottom to mask my snowy ground before sponging all the sky.  I sponged first in Pale Plum and then worked in Perfect plum to create the middle colour and the darkest colour at the top.  I used a Plum coloured Marvy Brush marker to draw along the swirls of the flourish and the tree and then wiped the excess off the embossing.  I sponged the tree in Pale Plum and stamped three tree tops in Pale Plum also.

Although it is hard to see in the photo the ribbon is tied in a bow and the two tails are twirled and then held under the matte with sticky strip.  The matte is made from Bravo Burgandy but I coloured the edge with the same Marvy marker to make it a darker burgandy.  I popped the tree up on Stampin’ dimensionals. The finished size of the card is 4 1/8″ by 7 1/8″ a non-standard size for which I have no envelope, but as I don’t want to crush the ribbon twirls anyway, I think I will keep this one for friends close by.

Supplies:

Stamps: Snow Swirled, Home for Christmas, Baroque Motifs
Inks: Versamark, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Bravo Burgandy, Basic Black
Cardstock: Pale Plum, Whisper White, Bravo Burgandy
Also: Wine organza ribbon, clear e.p. Stampin’ dimensionals, Marvy brush marker no.64