I made this for Lisa's great WTUI challenge - find out all about it here: WT568 Anything Plaid.
For starters, I used some alcohol inks and a technique Tim Holtz showed using them to make plaid - the link to his blog post is HERE. I cut one sheet into trees with some under-used dies, and layered them up.
Base is just sponged with chipped sapphire and has white acrylic paint dotted on with a stylus.
For the main panel, I stamped the market stand, the floral accessories and Flora - and DH thought I had made a hot mess, even though he could see that I had stamped Flora and the little trees in pots and coloured them separately. After colouring, I masked the stand off and sponged in the sky and some snow lines. Then I spritzed the sky with water. Added paint to the snowy roof of the stand, and then cuat out and added Flora and the little trees. After adding it to the base, I stuck on the trees, doodled a border and then went hunting for a sentiment - it's an old one from Penny Black, which I just stamped and sponged, then cut out and popped the centre up on foam for extra dimension. To finish, I decided to doodle borders on the trees to match the one on the image panel. And at the end, DH was very impressed with how well it had all come together .
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 GMT Views: 2135
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Wed, Jan 27, 2016 @ 6:03 PM
Sabrina I am in awe of this plaid! I needed a red and black plaid and now I know how I can create it. Thank you so much for this great inspiration and the link. This card is so super cute and it brings a big smile to me opening it up to see all the darling details. Thank you for an excellent card inspiration for my challenge.
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Wed, Jan 27, 2016 @ 8:44 PM
I know I probably say it every week, but I ALWAYS learn something new from you Sabrina. Thank you for the link to homemade tartan, but also using a stylus for the white paint dots (so much better than the end of a paint brush). I also love how you created a dark blue border using ink. The entire card is fabulous my friend.
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Wed, Jan 27, 2016 @ 9:12 PM
Oh! what a great card! loving everything
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Thu, Jan 28, 2016 @ 5:41 AM
Sure do wish I had some alcohol inks right now....this is just so cute, Sabrina! I Love what you did with those adorable trees; great job! Beautiful Christmas card and pretty sparkle!
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Thu, Jan 28, 2016 @ 5:47 AM
What an adorable card...love that owl and your market. So many cute things here. DH just didn't know you knew what you were doing, did he? The trees look great in plaid.
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