For this week’s Christmas colour challenge at CAS Coloursand Sketches I have chosen a colour palette that I devised for one of our
October challenges (#144). I wasn’t very happy with the card I made that week so
wanted to see if I could come up with something better.
I really wanted to have another go at the bokeh technique and so for this card I sponged corresponding inks in the two blues onto a piece of watercolour paper.
After letting this dry I sponged white ink from a chalk inkpad through a
homemade circle template in vary levels of intensity. This was then mounted onto a piece of gold cardstock. Looking at internet
images of bokeh, I’m not sure that my circles are really soft or out of focus
enough but I like them anyway so I guess that’s all that matters.
The
snowflakes were a right faff to die-cut. I always seem to have trouble cutting very intricate dies though I have tried all sorts of tricks to make it easier without any real success! Eventually I cut enough (some in white, some in gold, one in felt) that were OK and layered them onto a piece of shimmery netting from a
recycled wedding favour all held in place with a beautiful snowflake brad! Finally, after several hours with the snowflakes, the greeting was die-cut and added to one side.
I would also like to enter my card into the following
festive challenges:
So sorry that my post for CC&S is late this week and that I've not managed to visit and comment on last week's entries - it's been a really busy week (and next week's not looking great either)!
Stef x
