Happy release day everyone! I'm excited to share this Christmas card today using the new Gerda Steiner Designs set, Caroling Woodland Animals. It's hard to believe Christmas is around the corner, but this set is getting me excited about making Christmas cards.
To create this card I broke it down into two smaller projects: the large tree background and the adorable caroling forest critters.
I wanted to create a larger tree as a background for the forest critters. To do this I used a Misti and Tim Holtz distress watercolor pencils (using the direct to stamp method) to stamp portions of the Christmas tree from the Caroling Woodlands Animals set. The direct to stamp method involves dipping the pencil in water for a few seconds then coloring directly on a small section of the stamp (larger sections will dry too quick) and stamping immediately. After stamping I used a water brush to soften or move some of the color around. I started by "stamping" the whole tree on the top, then moving the stamp and repeating with just parts of the tree to create one big tree. In the end, I had three rows of the Christmas tree to create this 5x8 inch card.
For the caroling animals, I stamped these on Tim Holtz watercolor paper and colored using Derwent Inktense pencils and water brush. Once these dried, I used the circle dies from Gina K Designs master layouts 3 and 7 to cut them out. Finally, I glued all the layer to a 5x8 inch black card base, using a heavy book to keep the layers flat until dry (a necessity when using lots of water and watercolors).
I hope you enjoyed and found a little inspiration. Thank you so much for reading and happy Christmas card making!
