Festival of Lights

A handmade greeting card with a navy background. The main feature of the card is a watercolor panel showing a tangled light string with lights in amber. The text around the image says "I'm fine. This is fine. Everything's fine." A few silver sequins adorn the card front. The card has been photographed on a marble background with salvia leaves. In the lower left corner is a watermark with the text "Creative Maker for Kat Scrappiness: Cecilia Huster."
A handmade greeting card with a navy background. The main feature of the card is a watercolor panel showing a tangled light string with lights in amber. The text around the image says "I'm fine. This is fine. Everything's fine." A few silver sequins adorn the card front. The card has been photographed on a marble background with salvia leaves. The lower right corner is closest to the camera. This emphasizes the background pattern that repeats the main motif embossed with clear powder. In the lower left corner is a watermark with the text "Creative Maker for Kat Scrappiness: Cecilia Huster."
A handmade greeting card with a navy background. The main feature of the card is a watercolor panel showing a tangled light string with lights in amber. The text around the image says "I'm fine. This is fine. Everything's fine." A few silver sequins adorn the card front. The card has been photographed on a rustic wooden background. It's facing left. In the lower left corner is a watermark with the text "Creative Maker for Kat Scrappiness: Cecilia Huster."

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I created this card for an Instagram hop on the theme Festival of Lights. It was meant to be about Hanukkah, but I decided to take the name literally this time.

Feature

First I heat embossed Kat Scrappiness Stress-mess Christmas Stamp in Ranger Super Fine Detail Embossing Powder in silver on watercolor paper. Then I watercolored it with my artist grade watercolor paints.

Once the paper was dry, I cut out the motif and glued a piece of Accent Opaque 100 lbs to the back for stability. Then I added foam tape to the back of it.

Background

To create the background I placed the same stamp on the outside of the door of my Misti and stamped it over and over until it covered an A2-sized navy piece of cardstock. Then I heat embossed the impressions with Ranger Super Fine Detail in Clear.

To darken the edges I ink blended with navy and black dye inks. Then I wiped off the ink that was left on top of the clear embossing with a microfiber cloth.

A handmade greeting card with a navy background. The main feature of the card is a watercolor panel showing a tangled light string with lights in amber. The text around the image says "I'm fine. This is fine. Everything's fine." A few silver sequins adorn the card front. The card has been photographed on a rustic wooden background. It's facing right. In the lower left corner is a watermark with the text "Creative Maker for Kat Scrappiness: Cecilia Huster."
A handmade greeting card with a navy background. The main feature of the card is a watercolor panel showing a tangled light string with lights in amber. The text around the image says "I'm fine. This is fine. Everything's fine." A few silver sequins adorn the card front. The card has been photographed on a marble background with salvia leaves. The lower left corner is closest to the camera. This emphasizes the background pattern that repeats the main motif embossed with clear powder. In the lower left corner is a watermark with the text "Creative Maker for Kat Scrappiness: Cecilia Huster."

Assembly

I glued the navy cardstock directly to my white A2-sized card base. Then I removed the backing from the foam tape behind the watercolored image and stuck it down near the top center of the background. I finished up the card with some sequins from Kat Scrappiness Silver City II Sequin Mix.

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