July Dirty Dozen Christmas

 I have not been ahead of the game in a long time so, this post is being written in a month in advance. ( because, there is not a single change I will remember these papers or other details a month from now haha) So, this was done using the prompt for the July Dirty Dozen Christmas cards ideas that you can find here in the Special forums set aside for Fan Club members at Splitcoaststampers. 

I started by stamping this Serendipity Stamps snow Angel that looks like carved wood to me on some Arches cold press watercolor paper with Versafine Clair Nocturn ink. 

And using Daniel Smith watercolors for its base I decided I wanted some Twinkle so I added some Coliro Paints over the scarf, Mittens, berries, wings and star here. It is pretty subtle and you really only see it when you tilt the paper.  

 

 I also at this time still had this die set from Studio light (nested frames) on the table and I decided to use it. The dot printed paper under the watercolor panel is a very old piece of My Minds Eye paper. The sentiment here is from the waltzing mouse stamp set and was die cut with maybe an Memory box or poppy stamps die. ( I think of all three of those brands as Memory box) birch press.. Those bitty yellow star buttons are from James dress it up and they have some Lawn Fawn red hemp string through the holes here. The base is a red-ish tinted chocolate color ( unknown) and finished out to 6" square in real life. I almost did not use this piece because, although I love and collect snowmen stamps, I hardly ever mail them for Christmas cards so, I have a pretty big stash of them on hand at the moment. I keep intending to send out "happy winter" cards when it snows but, we did not get much snow last year so, the hope is that will be much better this coming winter. That's about it from me, I hope you are doing well & thanks for stopping by.