Today’s card project features a lovely but fairly simple watercolor night sky background, combined with a gorgeous silhouette tree line stamp, and it all adds up to a very purply, snowy Christmas card!
The design is pretty clean and simple, with just a large die cut word and sentiment floating up in the night sky. I’m trying to break out my watercolors more and more because they really do surprise me with different results every time.
Another aspect of this card that I really like? The 1/2 inch of white space on the card base. This just frames out the bold color on the painted panel so well and also picks up the white yardstick in my stacked word die.
Here is the video showing you how I created the card, including just how many times I stamped that tree die to get it as dark as possible.
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Seanna says
Cathy Zielske, you stinker. This is gorgeous. WELL DONE.
Dotty says
Absolutely beautiful! Love it! Cheers, ?
Ellen Mandris says
I LOVE this card. Well done π
Teresa Doyle says
Beautiful work Cathy, I love the night sky also, very pretty.
Donna says
Gorgeous card and great tutorial!
Lisa says
Really beautiful, Cathy. I love the twist with the purple sky – great job with the watercolor!
Jennifer says
soooo pretty! π
Annette Reed says
Sorry I missed the give away but that card is gorgeous. Thanks for the video of how you did that background and thanks for being a sponsor of this fun hop.