This week Suz is sharing this video seen here on YouTube called Watercolor painting ideas Christmas demo/ Christmas card ideas / winter watercolor by Ellen Crimi-Trent. It's a quick one, I was not able to get the closed captioning to work when I watched it) so, I made assumptions about what she was trying to share as the How-To information. What I thought was cool was how round her candy canes and gingerbread looked after with the way she did her layers of paints and shadows. So, with that in mind I instantly went to my stamp drawer that has Christmas stamps because, I knew I probably did not have gingers in an envelope but, I knew I had gingers tucked into things... You can click on these photos to see them larger and use your browsers back button to keep reading.
I pulled out this one from Whipper Snapper designs by Anna Wight called Gingers and Canes and stamped it with some morning mist ink on Arches hot press wc paper and started adding a layer of paints.
When I was doing this I did the buttons in a yellow ish color which did not contrast much with the bodies and the hearts in buff titanium and then we left to go out of town for a few days so, When I came home I started adding a few more shadows to the gingers and I ended up painting over those buttons and one I really wrecked it going too dark and yuck colored. ( when the paint dries I might try going over that with stickles glitter glue haha) so, I focused on the one that was OK-ish and cut it with an Gummiapan old paper die and inked the edges with iced spruce and vintage photo distress oxide inks.
the last bunch of paint was the white gouache on the eyes and mouth for a nod to frosting. I did consider adding some "frosting" along the arms but, just followed the sketch shadows of the stamp instead. My first thought about how to finish it was of course gingham print for the background and then I started flipping through a simple stories holly jolly pad and found the dot print and then I found that Merry & Bright print in one of their Dear Santa pads and I thought OK. It's not a total rinse and repeat card from me. I know a lot of mine tend to look a lot alike when they are done including this sketch if you will for how its all displayed. The red corrugate here is from Fancy pants trimmed down to about A 6ish so, I had stamped this SU sentiment on this tag I die cut the last time I was on a chop all the scraps kick and inked the edges of it in the same inks. That green sheer ribbon is unknown and the black tiny brad is probably recollections. The base here is some white textured Bazzill and this is 6" square in real life. That's about it from me, if you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.
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