Inspired by {World Market}

 This week Amy is sharing the World Market site & pinterest boards and I happened across this window scene pin. And I kept coming back to it. So, I decided to dig out the first window die I ever bought the Poppy Stamps Grand Madison window die and cut it from some artist loft watercolor paper. Taped up the backside with scotch tape so it could be painted. 

It struck me that there was a lot of Brown in that pin so, I started with a wash of some as the first layer on the frame.

So, I you know did this based on what I thought I remembered. and my brain was stuck on mostly woody wreath with round leaves with blue ish undertones. And I decided that I could change the ribbon hanger into a bow. 

And at that point I decided the glass panes should have some color. so, I gave that a wash of very light blue.

 

and I let it sit at this point I decided to go back to look at the wreath again and I realized there was "pine sprigs" in there also, So. I did add some flicks of another shade of green to be "pine" added a little more red to the bow. I had received some happy mail from Red Lead paperworks earlier in the week and stamped off some of these sentiments from the Christmas Circle words set on scraps so, I had those in my line of site was the paint was drying and I did cut one of the Noel's with a Hero Arts circle die and then inked the edges with some DOX vintage photo ink because, brown. :) I knew the edges of the pin were maybe the sides of the house or door frame something, but I decided that I didn't want to paint the rest of it and just started flipping through some printed paper and I liked the colors of this winter village scene from the Hobby Lobby vintage Christmas pad and that sent everything to more greens than browns. 

The green base here was cut to A7 and that's about it. I am not so sure this paper and colors work with this window and I am very tempted to pull it apart and make a more clean and simple version card but, at the moment this is where I stopped. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.