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These cards are for April's Use Your Marbles Challenge and Anna-Karin's Let it Snow! Challenge.

CARDS:
4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Card & Mat: Carnival Vellum 80-lb. Cover, Red and New Forest Green
Background & Focal Image: Neenah Classic Crest Cover, Solar White

ETA, 11.13.12: The last card has unknown cardstock and patterned paper--Sky Blue Snowflakes, Cottage Collection by La Rayne Miller and Keeping Memories Alive, 2003.

Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 2 (I die-cut the white cs with the largest die; then I traced the outside edge of the die on green cs and cut it out for the mat.)

BACKGROUNDS: Marble Technique
The green on the first background is actually Nick Bantock Chrome Yellow and Prussian Blue. The Marbles blended the color and I ended up with green. I let that dry; then I inked up a few marbles with Nick Bantock Vermillion Lacquer and inked the background up some more.

For the second background and the yellow and blue backgrounds, I inked the marbles with just one color, rolled them around on the cardstock, and then repeated with the second color. (I tried to adjust the colors of the yellow and blue backgrounds, but I couldn't get them right. I wish you could see how pretty the Nick Bantock colors are on those backgrounds.)

FOCAL IMAGE:
Sparkle N Sprinkle image (Someone here on Two Peas made a really cute card with this image and told me where I could get it.)

I've always been afraid to try to color a snowman. Then I saw this cool video by Fran Seifert of Stampendous. I tried to follow her techniques as I colored the snowman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUzM-dsM3Po&feature=player_embedded [youtube.com]

Prismacolor Pencils (blended with pencils only):
#1103 Carribean Sea--Snowman, Highlights on Hat, Shadows elsewhere
#118 Cadmium Orange Hue and #944 Terra Cotta--Nose
#122 Permanent Red and #925 Crimson Lake--Hat Band, Scarf
#912 Apple Green, #911, Olive Green, #908, Dark Green--Trees
#1017 Clay Rose and #944 Terra Cotta--Dog
#1023 Cloud Blue--Sky

SNOW:
First, I shaded with Prismacolor Pencils.
#1059 10% Cool Gray
#1060 20% Cool Gray
#956 Lilac

Then I used Rock Candy Distress Stickles on the trees and the snow. I used a Fantastix applicator to put the stickles in narrow spaces, but mostly I used my finger and tapped it around. I wish you could see the sparkle.

When all was done, I took the images outside and sprayed them with Winsor & Newton Artists' Workable Fixative for Pastel, Charcoal, & Pencil.

April and Anna-Karin, thank you for the challenges. I desperately need to make Christmas Cards, and the Let it Snow! Challenge led me in that direction. The Marble Background Technique made me remember this fun image; I thought they would go well together.

TFL.
Daria

ETA, 11.13.12: Since posting the first two cards, I added more blue color to the skies, and I made a few more of these cards. This time I used patterned paper for the background mat and unknown cardstock. See the fourth picture above. The pp is Sky Blue Snowflakes, Cottage Collection by La Rayne Miller and Keeping Memories Alive, 2003.


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