Happy actual Thanksgiving Day if you are a Canadian! I don't know when you usually have your Thanksgiving meal. I've usually had mine on the Sunday, but this year, because it's just Ken and I, and we don't have to travel anywhere, we're having our turkey dinner today! Yum!
But I wanted to share this beautiful promotion medley that I finally had a chance to play with this weekend. The whole medley is called *Christmastime is Here, but the stamp set is called *Christmas Rose. What a beautiful set it is! I played mostly with Part 2 of the set which consists of one cling stamp with all the detail you see below. I stamped it in Versamark, added Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder on Watercolour paper and heat set it with the Heat Tool. Then I set out to watercolour the image. Here's how it turnied out:
*Part of the Christmastime is Here Medley Promotion, not available to customers until Nov. 1. To get it sooner, join my team and order it in your starter kit!
- If you have some time and you find watercolouring soothing, you're going to love this *Christmas Rose stamp. Yes, it's floral, but with the pine boughs, holly berries, and pine cones, you definitely get a holiday feel to it.
- I used Cherry Cobbler ink on the large rose and the berries, Poppy Parade on the smaller one (who knew they would go together so well?), Mossy Meadow on the leaves and Early Espresso on the rose leaves. When you watercolour with ink, you get a real gradient of colour depending on how much water you use with the ink. You can also dry the watercolouring and add a new layer to get a darker shade.
- Aqua Painters are amazing tools. They carry the water in their wells inside them and are so easy to clean and use with a second colour. Simply swipe on scrap paper until you get a clean brush stroke with no colour.
- The sentiment is from the photopolymer stamp set that is part 1 of the set. I embossed it with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder on regular Whisper White cardstock and then die cut it with one of the label dies in the coordinating die set, called *Roses Dies.
- Other products from the medley I used were the *Christmastime is Here Specialty Designer Series Paper in the background, the *Gold Shimmer Ribbon and the *Gold Glitter Enamel Dots.
- The card base is Mossy Meadow and the watercoloured panel was die cut with the Stitched Rectangles Dies.
*Part of the Christmastime is Here Medley Promotion, not available to customers until Nov. 1. To get it sooner, join my team and order it in your starter kit!
This medley will be available for customers Nov. 1, but it will only be available while supplies last, so be sure to get your orders in promptly when it becomes available. Here are the details:
You can purchase the whole suite at once, or as a bundle of stamp set and dies, or buy pieces separately, which gives you lots of options!
Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.
*Part of the Christmastime is Here Medley Promotion, not available to customers until Nov. 1. To get it sooner, join my team and order it in your starter kit!
