I fell in love with the sweet images from the Wildly Happy stamp set. And while I love all the animal images, the fox is closest to my heart. And so I began by stamping the foxes onto a piece of Heavy Whisper White cardstock, using my Memento ink. While I was colouring the images with my Stampin' Blends, I was also considering what I would do with them. Would I cut them out? Would I create a dark background and add some falling snow? I don't always have a definite plan in mind but go where my thoughts lead me.
Well, once the images were coloured to my satisfaction, I decided to colour the complete background black, carefully skirting the images without taking away any details. I had a piece of the wonderful, retired Wood Textures DSP on my table and that inspired me to use it as my background. As you can see, it's the pile of firewood. I carefully cut out several of the pieces of firewood, leaving a "cave" or den for my little fox family. As it happened, the black background I had given them worked out beautifully. I also took some of the Designer Paper scraps and created a second layer of them, making the foxes appear further inside.
Then I cut two pieces of Shimmery White cardstock to make it appear like snowdrifts at the bottom of the wood piles. I used the Puffy Snow to outline the drifts and also to "cap" a lot of the pieces of firewood. After using my heat tool to dry and puff up the snow, I added a shadow of Seaside Spray along the snowdrift using my AquaPainter. Then I stamped a retired sentiment, Silent Night, onto a piece of Whisper White using Seaside Spray ink and added that to the upper right logs.
I used a base of Heavy Whisper White for this card and absolutely love the results, don't you?
I hope you'll check out the wonderful creations by the Watercooler Artists over at our Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.
I've entered my card into the following challenges:
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #54 - Anything Christmas Goes
Crimbo Crackers Challenge #190 - Anything Christmas Goes
Fab card Heidi - love the foxes in their den - great colouring and clever idea using that DSP.
ReplyDeleteHeidi...I just love your card. You have designed it beautifully. The images of the fox family and the firelogs around them makes the perfect home for them in the winter time. And could not have used a more perfect sentiment.
ReplyDeleteI love the cute little foxes hiding in their den made with the great DP. So sweet and perfect as a Christmas card.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful scene and the fox image is so cute. Love how you did the logs and snow with the puffy paint and your card is so unique and creative....A really eye catching card x.
ReplyDeletePerfect blend of colouring,layering with DSP and stamping to create this wonderful card. Well thought out and designed Heidi.
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