The Flowersoft Sprinkle Challenge FSC15 this week is: 'Last Minute Holiday cards' - see this link for the deets: (12/8/10) FCS15 Sprinkle Challenge - Last Minute Holiday Cards! by Jeanne S at Splitcoaststampers so I whipped up a couple of cards - all with the same coloured cardstock, sentiment set, embossing folder and layout but just changed a few embellies and one or two other things so they all look a bit different to each other. I had a little production line going with the colouring, doing the liquid applique and cutting up the cardstock and doing the dry-embossing - so it was nice and quick esp. as there wasn't much colouring on the images.
The embossing folder is by Crafts Too: Christmas Holly Frame. There is actually a "frame" towards the top of the ef, but it is covered by my image. You can see the frame on my other cards for this Flowersoft Challenge in my Gallery.
The image was coloured with OMS, Prismacolor pencils and Derwent Coloursoft pencils. I added white liquid applique to the snowman's: mitten cuffs, hat band and pom-pom, and on the bear's: hat band, mitten cuff and collar on the jacket. I let the liquid applique dry then heated it with my heat-gun to make it "puff up" and then painted over it with white acrylic paint as the white liquid applique tends to look rather creamy - almost lemony - rather than "pure white".
I lightly chalked in the sky around the image with Kaisercolour blue chalk.
The sentiment tag was diecut with my CB and Tiny Tags die set and I ran my Warm Red ink pad around the tag.
Lastly, I added Flowersoft Polar White using Aleen's Tacky glue along the bottom of the image and did two layers of it so it looked all snowy and fluffy.
Registered: December 15, 2008 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 5806
Tue, Dec 14, 2010 @ 10:01 AM
AWWW! jocelyn, this is soooo adorable! i love the image, so beautifully coloured and i absolutely love the holly embossed background. did you know you were an enabler?