We Wish You A Merry Christmas!

Hello! Emily Midgett here with you today as a guest for the wonderful Vanessa at Butterfly Reflections Ink! I'm so thrilled to be back here with you, and I have a super festive and fun watercolored card to share with you today, so let's get started!

First let's talk about the watercolor panel. I used Winnie and Walter's In Bloom: Elsa's Florals stamps to create a background using Versafine ink and clear embossing powder. With some super simple masking (like, I stamped one of the poinsettias on masking paper and used it repeatedly), I was able to create some pretty little mini-bouquets of holiday flowers and foliage. After I had stamped everything to my satisfaction, I used my Zig markers and a wet paintbrush to color the festive florals.

I didn't want to cover up my painstakingly watercolored background, so I stamped the gorgeous greeting from the Merry and Bright stamp set, also from Winnie and Walter, onto some thin vellum and heat embossed it in white. I trimmed the panel down and added some dots of Ranger Multi Matte adhesive behind the embossing to try to hide it a little. I cut a red scalloped rectangle with my die cut machine, adhered the watercolored greeting panel onto it, then mounted the whole thing onto my top-folding card base with dimensional adhesive.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this project! I'm so thrilled to be back guesting for Vanessa... she's awesome! Hope everyone is having a wonderful long weekend, filled with family, yummy food, and wonderful shopping!

ALSO! If you haven't taken advantage of the super amazing sale she's running this weekend, RUN... don't walk,,, over to the website and get yourself some goodies! You just can't beat 25% off and Vanessa's lightning fast shipping! The sale runs through Monday, 11/28!

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