Winter Cheer

I used the versatile birch trunk stamps from the ‘Nature’s Silhouettes’ set for this card stamping them over a hill shaped mask at the bottom and bending them this way and that so no two trees looked the same. After stamping them I positioned a circle mask for the moon and painted masking fluid over all the tree trunks. I used zig clean colour real brush markers for the blue sky and green foliage in the background; I rarely use the zig markers but whenever I do I resolve to get them out more often. The colours are so vibrant and the blending so easy. Once the sky was completed I removed all the masks and added grey to the trunks.

I wanted shadows in the snow but with paler tones than the background so scribbled some colour on a palette and diluted it to paint a shadow for each tree. There is a little line of sparkly embossing along the snow banks to make them glisten. The sentiment may or may not be positioned where it is to hide something; I’ll let you draw your own conclusions!

Enjoy Christmas Eve.

Supplies:

Stamps:   Nature’s Silhouettes, Yuletide wishes (PB)
Markers:  Zig clean color real brush markers green, blue, light gray (Kuretake), Versamarker
Inks:  Versafine onyx black ink, Majestic blue(Tsukineko)
Cardstock:  hot pressed watercolour paper
Also: clear sparkle embossing powder