Soft watercolour Christmas Card - DT Member: Verity

Hello! So good to be here. It's Verity here from Pretty Little Button with another card for you today. Today is my first post using the lovely Christmas stamps by Colourific. The Peace & Joy stamp set has a lovely collection of baubles which I used for this card today.  

Soft watercolour Christmas Card details:

To start off stamp the baubles in clear versamark in and heat emboss in metallic embossing powder. Alternatively, to get the foiled look like I have, either use Bonding powder from WOW! embossing powders, or a sticky glue pad. Once these are heat set or dry, you can run this through a laminator or Minc machine with foil. 

 Next, using a selection of watercolours, colour in your baubles. The embossing powder or foil will resist the watercolour, so you just need to make sure you don't go outside the bauble itself.

When completely dry, fussy cut the baubles out and put to one side. For the background, trim a piece of white card down 1/2 smaller than your card base. I went for a 6" square card base. You can use watercolour paper, but I wanted white card. As I wasn't planning on using a lot of water, I just made sure I used a heavier weight white card. 

Apply some clear water to an area of the card panel and drop in colours for a lose watercolour background. When dry, foam mounts the baubles onto the front, making sure you attach a small piece of thread to the back of them. Attach the other end of the thread to the top back of the card panel to give the illusion of hanging baubles. 

I added a stamped sentiment from stamp set coming soon and embellished with a few platinum nuvo drops. 

I hope you love today's card and don't forget to check out the stamp set, link below. If you loved this card please leave a comment below as we would love to hear from you. 

Colourific.co.uk Shop

Peace & Joy Clear stamp set

Until next time!

Verity

Pretty Little Button Blog | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube