WT829 = What's Your Beverage? - there's nothing like a cup of cocoa or hot chocolate on a cold winter day!
I stamped the image in archival ink on mixed media cs. I started by watercolouring with my Gansai Tambi paints - they include a shimmery gold paint that I used on the background. I did not get a very deep red on the cup and saucer so went over it with a red Intense watercolour pencil and got a much richer colour.
I decided to make the cup look more festive as I want to use it as a Christmas card, so I die cut some tiny holly leaves and berries out of shimmer paper and created a patterned band around the middle of the cup. I went over the berries with Glossy Accents to make them more shiny.
I trimmed the image to have a narrow border of the mixed media cs, then added it to a piece of red shimmer cs, and popped that up on fun foam on a cream (very pale gold) shimmer card base. It really matches the pale gold watercolour wash on the background of the image.
Forgive the poor image - I find shimmer card stock very hard to photograph.
Date: Thursday, January 28, 2021 GMT Views: 441
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Registered: October 18, 2015 Location: Cary, NC Posts: 19903
Thu, Jan 28, 2021 @ 11:23 AM
Your card looks delicious! Would love something hot about now with the snow melting.....Love your Christmas card, and all you did to make it interesting! TFS
Registered: March 8, 2005 Location: Halfway between Dallas and Houston Posts: 23973
Fri, Jan 29, 2021 @ 7:33 PM
The holly border on the cup makes this card very festive. I'll bet that shimmer CS looks wonderful with the shiny red berries and the gold tone BG. Beautiful card!
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