Scenic Ornamental Christmas with Colour INKspiration challenges #197

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

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

These colours are sooo lovely - and the image above the bed helped inspire my card!!  

I've used the Ornamental Christmas Stamp set which has these fantastic lovely large swirly greetings!!  I can see me using this 'Merry Christmas' stamp so much!!  

The stamp set also includes this fuzzy pine tree which worked spectacularly well for this fun stamped technique card.   The first thing I stamped was the large greeting so I knew where I could place my trees.  And then,  I stamped first with Night of Navy stamping a couple of times before reinking the stamp, and then did the same with the Misty Moonlight and finally a couple of Crumb Cake trees.  

I then used a blending brush and added lots of sponged Misty Moonlight all around the edges of the card and especially along the bottom to give the trees a lot more depth.  AND then comes the fun bit!!  I flicked water all over the card to create little splodges, and then flicked very watered down Craft White ink all over the card too for a 'snowy' look.  Anything goes with this technique and it always looks great!

Inside the card are more stamped trees and sponging, but no flicking!!

My final touch for this very simple card was to add some Hues of Blues flowers over the front.

Give this technique a go!!  I'm sure you'll have a messy fun time!!

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.

Ornamental Christmas flicking technique

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