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Friday, October 28, 2022

Victorian Christmas Northern Lights

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I've told you before that I lived in Maine for a summer, and saw the Northern Lights there. And I thought it was aliens or the end of the world. 

I had always imagined the Northern Lights to be rainbow colored, so the shimmery, solid green, moving lights were a huge surprise to me, and will forever be what I think of when I think of the Northern Lights. My aversion to cold weather *probably* means I won't see them again, unless they move south! However, I STILL might see aliens, so there's that.

I thought it would be the perfect background for a Christmas card with a lot of red on it, so I chose this Victorian style Christmas set that has such sweet little details, and I colored it mostly red with Graphit Markers. I put some little shadows down on a torn piece of paper that I used for snow. What I do when I'm adding shadows to die cut images is I set the die cut onto the card and draw a faint pencil line underneath it. Then I remove the die cut, make the angled shadows, and then glue the die cut down.

I did the stars with a Posca pen, and while the paint was wet, flicked two stars "legs" out with a white gel pen.



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I will have the video for this background in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for that. There's some more REALLY beautiful holiday things that you'll be seeing me work with soon here.

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1 comment:

  1. This is gorgeous, Lydia! Watching you on FB this week, I thought about 7 years ago, when our daughter, hubby and 1 yr. old daughter were living in Germany (he's military). For their anniversary in February, he gave her a surprise - he took them to see the Northern Lights, and they actually camped out someplace that night. They were bundled up tightly, and still SO cold! But, it's a memory like yours, they will never forget it. Thanks for sharing this technique and your lovely card!

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