The challenge this week at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is to use shades of blue. It's bitter cold here so I decided to make a wintery Christmas card. I reached deep in to my craft supply stash and found the Cray Pas (oil pastels) that I have had since college. I used a mixture of two shades of blue to make the background around the image. I left it kind of streaky but gives it a blustery winter look. In order to do the background, I printed out a duplicate image and bubble cut around it to create a mask. I then applied a good layer of the blue around the edge of the masked image. I used a tissue and then rubbed the oil pastels outward. A little bit of white embossing enamel completed the wintery look for the image.
Here is the inside of the card:
Card Details:
Image: Wish Upon A Star from Sugar Nellie
Copics: E00, E04, E11, e13, e21, R20, E57, E35, E53, E50, B000, B00, W0, W1, W3
Spellbinders scalloped circle die
Spellbinders snowflake die
Joy Crafts snow flake border die
Cray Pas oil pastels
Sketch: Sketchy Colors
Entered in following challenges:
Sketchy colors: Sketch
Crafts for Eternity: blue tones
Fairy Tale Challenge: Snow
Sister Act Card Challenge: Anything Goes
11 comments:
Wow! Julie, this is so beautiful! The little angel is adorable, and I love your colouring treatment with the pastels and the enameling - it's wonderful! Gill xx
quelle adorable création Julie, le bleu lui donne cet aspect frais parfait pour l'hiver, c'est charmant, biz
What a beautiful card - gorgeous image too - Jacqueline xx
This is stunning, and I love blue for Christmas! Beautiful papers, super cute image and your colouring is fab. Love how you make her glow with the background.
Thank you for joining Sketchy Colors, good luck!
Smiles from Nancy:)
Wow, fab card!
Thanks for joining us at the Fairy Tale Challenge.
Andrea :-)
You definitely captured a snowy essence with this card! I love the background!
Gorgeous card! I like it a lot! :-D
Thank you so much for joining us at Fairy Tale Challenge this fortnight. :-D
Milka GD
Fabulous card! Thanks for joining us at Crafts 4 Eternity this week hugs x
What a wonderfull card! It´s so pritty and really elegant like a snowflake! Thank you for joining our "Snow" challenge at Fairy Tales. Bianca XX
Pure sweetness combined with a fabulous design. LOVE this Julie! Hugs D
the image, your coloring and the layers you created in the background are so lovely
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