Very Merry

Here are the two challenges I would like to attend this week:

1) Simon Wednesday Challenge - Stamp It, below is the challenge photo:

2) Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge - Weeks #559-560, below is the challenged word art:

And here is the card I made to attend the above two challenges:

Tim Holtz's new Distress watercolor pencils are just coming out. I saw Tim's demo video and would like to see if my Inktense watercolor pencils can work similar to the Distress watercolor pencils. I pressed the Vintage Photo Distress Ink pad on my work surface and spritz with water. Then I applied a piece of watercolor paper to create the inky background. I stamped the text background (from Tim Holtz's Ledger Script stamp set) and holly berries & leaves (from Tim Holtz's Christmas Blueprint 4 stamp set) on the inky background with black Archival ink pad. Then I used my Inktense watercolor pencils to color into the berries and leaves. I used the water brush to blend the colors and found no smudged colors. It works great! I cut out a piece of "very merry" from Simon Says Stamp's sentiment stripes and attach it at the bottom of the background. I dry embossed a white cardstock with Spellbinders' leaves embossing folder and attached the finished inky background in the center. Below is another look of the card:

Supplies:

Cardstock: Gina K Designs, Tim Holtz watercolor paper

Ink Pads: Distress ink, Archival ink

Stamps: Tim Holtz

Embossing Folder: Spellbinders

Others: Simon Says Stamp's sentiment stripe, Inktense watercolor pencils, water brush

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