I send hundreds of Christmas cards, which means coloring a stamp image is not going to happen, nor is any detailed masking, scene making, etc.
My go-to Christmas card design is a dramatic background (because I can make full sheets and get multiple cards out of them) and a punch die or sentiment stamp.
For today's card, I used the Retro Flake Border die and cut the design into a piece of Saunders Waterford Watercolor Paper I had trimmed down to match a 4 bar card. Several of those will be among the cards I send out this year - I love that size.
I watercolored this piece with three colors - Pthalo Blue Green Shade, Phthalo Turquoise and Quinacridone Pink as an underpainting - leaving each color in its own space, after misting the paper with water to ensure the colors ran.
After that was dry, I painted over the entire thing with Phthalo Blue Green shade, which turned the pink into purple, and the turquoise into a bluer mix. It greatly intensified the color and gave me the overall cool tones I wanted.
Then I die cut Merry with the Merry die from Concord & 9th out of Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, as well as some extra snowflakes (I love that they look retro - like Jetsons' graphics, or jacks) and glued those all down. I wish you could see the sparkle.
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I glued that panel onto the 4 bar notecard, and boom! A quick and easy Christmas card that is still super eye-catching and fun.
Now that I have permission to shop DieCember, I'll extend the same permission to you. :)
Loveyameanitbye.
