Today’s card is a winter card featuring some of the new VersaFine Clair colors.

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 2 hours

Directions:

Step 1:

Watercolor smoosh a die cut watercolor paper panel with three sprays sprayed onto a piece of acetate packaging: Summer Sky and Paris Dusk Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray as well as Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray.

(I accidentally smudged the upper edge of the panel with some yellow ink during the process, but planned on covering the color in the next few steps.)

After the sprays dried, the upper left corner of the panel was stamped with Very Peri VersaFine Clair Ink using a woodblock rubber stamp. The ink was then heat embossed with clear Mboss powder.

Step 2:

Color small pieces of watercolor paper (or in my case watercolor paper scraps) with a variety of greens: Spruce and Grass Green VersaFine Clair ink and New Sprout Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray. The scrap on the left was sprayed multiple times with the Fireworks! Spray and set aside to dry; the two straps on the right were pressed directly into the two ink pads until the whole scrap was colored with the ink. While there was a small space on the dark green tree (on the lower right in this picture) left uncolored, I knew that it would be covered up in the next few steps.)

After all of the papers had dried, I die cut the three small pieces of watercolor paper with three different tree dies.

Step 3:

Color three more scraps of watercolor paper with Pear Tart Memento Double Marker and Emerald Fabrico Dual Marker. After the markers had dried, these three scraps were die cut with three more tree die cuts.

Step 4:

The layers of the dies were glued together. Then Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray was sprayed onto more acetate packaging and used to paint sparkle onto the trees.

Step 5:

Ink blend the edges of the panel with Neptune VersaColor Ink until it reaches the saturation of color desired. Heat emboss with more of the clear Mboss powder.

Step 6:

Glue the three die cut trees onto the panel. Splatter with gold watercolor.

Step 7:

Stamp the sentiment on a piece of watercolor paper with Spruce VersaFine Clair Ink and heat emboss with clear Mboss powder. Trim the paper with a paper trimmer. Distress the edges with a pair of scissors. Then press the edges of the sentiment strip into the Grass Green VersaFine Clair Ink pad. After the ink dried, paint the edges with more of the gold watercolor. Set aside to dry.

Step 8:

Spray New Sprout Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray directly onto an embossing folder. Place a die cut watercolor panel into the embossing folder and run it through a die cutting machine. Set the panel aside to dry.

Step 9:

Distress the edges of the panel with scissors. Run the edges of the panel through the Spruce VersaFine Clair ink pad to add ink directly to the edges. Then ink blend the edges with more of the Spruce VersaFine Clair Ink pad using a sponge dauber.

Step 10:

Watercolor the embossed panel with more of the gold watercolor and allow to dry.

Step 11:

Add a strip of black and white polka dotted washi tape onto the green panel. (The washi tape I used is very wide, so I ripped it into a thinner strip before attaching it to the card panel.)

Glue the smaller (blue) panel onto the larger, green panel at an angle. Glue star sequins onto the blue panel. Finally, glue the whole thing onto an A2-sized white card base.

Art Supplies

Imagine

• Fabrico Dual Marker – Emerald
• Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray – New Sprout, Paris Dusk, Summer Sky
• Mboss – Clear
• Memento Dual Marker – Pear Tart
• Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray – Sparkle
• VersaColor Ink – Neptune
• VersaFine Clair ink – Grass Green, Spruce Versa, Very Peri Sponge
• Sponge Dauber

Other
• Altenew – die set – Tree Mix
• Gina Marie Designs – die set – Big and Little Chain Rectangles
• Gina Marie Designs – die set – Pleated Lace Rectangles
• Hero Arts – woodblock stamp – Stunning Snowflakes (retired)
• Kat Scrappiness – sequins – Winter Wonderland mix
• Kuretake – watercolors – Starry Colors
• Sizzix – embossing folder – Jeweled Snowflakes (664489)
• Stampers Anonymous – stamp set – Cozy Christmas
• Watercolor paper
• Die cutting machine Paint brush
• Paper trimmer
• Scissors
• Glue