This is a card for Holly's challenge - I have loads of stamps and ideas with holly, but this gave me a chance to ink up the one and only stamp I bought at our annual craft show. Stamped on watercolour paper, coloured the oval border with a gold pen and added Glossy Accents. When it was dry, I masked the postage stamp and coloured the postcard background with Antique Linen.
Coloured the rest with Inktense pencils, including a spare set of holly leaves.
OK, there are two spare sets of holly leaves because I had an image fully coloured and ready to use before I decided I hadn't stamped it well enough and the train was slightly too faint to look good. So I added the spare set of holly leaves from Take 1 to the banner sentiment ;-). I'm sure I'll find a use for the rest of it...
Background plain brown DP stamped with Script in Smokey Grey. Added the sentiment, which is slightly popped up on foam in the centre, as are the sprigs of holly (glued at the centre, popped up at the ends).
I liked making this - come December I will be hearing the unmistakable choo-choo of a steam train puffing past at the weekend on Santa trips.
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Tue, Nov 01, 2016 @ 11:36 PM
How did I miss this...I should have felt the steam train coming around the corner. This is magical!!! I keep looking at this and smiling...so much to look at and love. Thanks for the great description too.
------------------------------ Susie
Please don't take your organs to heaven - heaven knows we need them here.