Beauty of the Season

Good Morning.

It's our last Merry Monday challenge of 2014.

The lovely and talented Karren is our hostess this week.

And this is what she chose.

I recently took a short watercolor class at our local senior center.

We used masking fluid which is something that had been sitting on my shelf 

as a NBUS for at least 2 years.

So I set out to try it on a card.

I definitely need some more practice with that stuff.

The first few attempts ended up with masking everywhere

 but on the watercolor paper.

I've since learned to use a box to do my splattering.

After stamping and coloring the stamped image from

Beauty of the season with my Koi watercolors,

I did a watercolor wash using

Soft Sky, Marina Mist and Blushing Bride re-inkers and my Aqua Painter.

Can you tell that my first attempt at stamping the sentiment went wrong?

I did some damage control using a snippet of watercolor paper

and colored it to match the background.

So I'm taking this over to 

Pixie's Snippet Playground

(This snippet actually came out of the trash basket!)

I used Kylie's sketch

from Happy Little Stampers for my layout.

Even if you've sent all your Christmas cards, I hope you'll

create a winter scene on a Christmas card and join us at

Merry Monday.

I'm so glad you could stop by during this busy time.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Beauty of the Season, Winter Memories (retired)

Ink: Black Archival, SU Markers (Basic Black, Real Red) 

Paper:  Watercolor (Strathmore), Solar White (Neena)

Other:  Masking Fluid, Koi Watercolors, Re-inkers (Soft Sky, Marina Mist, Blushing Bride), Aqua Painter

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted