O Holy Night Watercoloured CI#194

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

Tonight I'm joining in with the Colour INKspiration crew and our awesome colour combination!!

I've used these colours to watercolour a brand new stamp in my stash.

This is one of the stamp sets coming in our Mini Catalogue starting next week on 3rd September.  It's called A Child is Born and has some gorgeous words as well as this lovely line art.  So, I pulled out some watercolour paper, and Saddle Brown Stazon, and started colouring.  

I put a splodge of each of the colours onto a large stamping block and got started!  I used the Secret Sea for Mary as she's often depicted in blue, and I used the Fresh Freesia for Jesus as purples are a royal colour.  Joseph's tunic was able to achieve a deep Soft Sea foam because I used the Soft Sea Foam Ink Refil giving a much darker colour. 

See the colour of their hair and the staff, as well as the ground?  This brown was athe result of mixing Secret Sea with Calypso Coral - so I only used the colours of the challenge for all the watercolouring!  

I really enjoy watercolouring on the Fluid 100 paper because you can build up many layers of colour which helps create definition in the image.

Inside the card I've stamped using the Secret Sea and very carefully used the brown ink I created to colour the manger.  My cardstock for inside is some Basic Beige.  The Designer Series Paper in the back ground is the Peaceful Garden paper and the starry background worked rather nicely I think!

My final touch was torn edges on my image, some twine wrapped around the base and a large Drusy embellishment for the star.  

INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by checking out all of the creations of the Colour INKspiration Crew in the challenge album on our Facebook page. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use neutrals such as Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and Basic Black as well as Metallics.

Not a member of the Colour INKspiration Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.

A Child is Born watercolouring

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