Favourites

The Berkhamsted Creative Challenge theme this month is "Favourites". These cards, made for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, definitely count - as well as using brushos, a favourite product, they are some of my favourite Christmas cards I've ever made!

Branka's theme for the week is "Forest and Deer".

I wanted to use this deer stamp from Clarity that I got last month.

I started by stamping and embossing. I used stazon for the colours, but as this doesn't stay wet long, I used the stamp platform and overstamped in versamark. This allowed me to emboss in clear.

Next I spritzed with water and added brushos for my forest. The square one uses leaf green, orange and olive green. The other uses dark brown and emerald green. The embossed deer resist the water and brushos, and create lovely swirls where the colour moves around them.

This was meant to be the first step, and I'd work over the top, but I loved them so much I left them pretty much as they were.

I cut them down, edged with a sharpie, and used a grey inktense pencil and water pen to ground the deer. On the portrait one I used a yellow pencil to bring out the antlers where the brusho was very dark. I stamped the sentiment on offcuts using the same stazon colours as the deer, and edged.

I love the drama and movement in this one. The sentiment would probably have looked better much lower, but I didn't want to cover the speckled brusho pattern.

This one looks a bit more forest- or foliage-like. The flashes of light I think look quite ethereal and gorgeous.





To join in with this challenge, head over to the 52CCT blog. You have until Friday 24th April to play along.