Happy Monday everyone. Today I've got a trio of Christmas cards showcasing the different images in Lot's of Cheer. This set is perfect for quick coloring and these cards show how you can come up with colors that aren't necessarily available in the Blends collection.
- These ornament balls are stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento and colored with some of the newer Blends combos: So Saffron, Rococo Rose and Pretty Peacock. Aren't they lovely!
- I fussy cut them - it was way faster than it probably looks.
- You'll want to stamp the greeting on the Pool Party layer prior running it through your Big Shot with the Tufted 3D folder.
- What do you do when you have a color challenge that calls for Granny Apple Green + Melon Mambo + Blushing Bride with stripes for dessert PLUS the overall theme was Christmas. No corresponding DSP...so I had to make my own!
- I used an acrylic quilting ruler to draw my 1/4" wide stripes on the diagonal, colored them in with my blends which allowed me to get a little variation with each color. The light Lovely Lipstick Blends marker works perfectly as a fill in for Melon Mambo and gave me a chance to add a little shading with the dark one. (For the Blushing Bride stripe I had to use my regular marker, discovering that you can carefully combine these different types of markers when necessary as long as you don't mix them in the same area and are careful not to touch a stamped area that wasn't meant for that marker.) When I was all done coloring the stripes I went over the lines with a (retired) Black journaling marker.
- A stitched rectangle die and some Glitter Enamel Dots finish off this card.
- This was also for a Christmas in July Color Challenge: Cherry Cobbler + Garden Green + Gold.
- I embossed this jingle bell wreath in gold and colored it with Blends (SU alcohol markers) These don't come in Garden Green so I used Mint Macaron Light and Dark plus a little Light Call Me Clover to bring it closer to the Garden Green range.
- I added the sentiment, cut it out with a rectangle die and popped it onto a white card.
- Once I have the routine down for coloring the bells it's definitely a card that can be mass produced.
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