Joyful Greetings

Busy day today but I managed enough coloring for Day 7 of Kathy's (The Daily Marker) Coloring Challenge. I had my watercolors out from a previous day and I decided to go with them, using a new medallion die from Hero Arts.

Supplies: Paper - Paper Studio Brights;

Strathmore 140 lb Cold Press Watercolor;

CZ Designs Sentiment Strips Reverse Christmas

Dies - Hero Arts Snowflake Medallion Fancy Die and

Nesting Circle Infinity Dies

Stamps - Hero Arts CL114 Joyful Greetings &

CL622 Designer Snowflakes (both retired)

Other - Prima Metallic Accents watercolors;

Memento Rosebud & Versamark inks;

Ranger Princess gold ep

I die cut the medallion from watercolor paper and watercolored with pinks and blues, merging on the borders for purple (plus I enhanced with more purple). The background circle was watercolored with yellow, gold and a few dabs of copper. The shimmer is so lovely in real life!! Stamped and gold embossed my sentiment on that circle then matted onto a blue one. Card is cut to A6 - A2 was too small, A7 too big and A6, as Goldilocks would say "just right"! Layered 3 snowflake dies for dimension and stamped a couple tone-on-tone snowflakes off edge for interest. Final touch was a sentiment strip - done!

Because I stamped off the edge and watercolored, this works for the current CAS Mix Up Challenge (third & final entry). Also used non-traditional colors so I'm adding to CAS Christmas (third & final entry) too. Finally - to Darnell's November NBUS Challenge since my medallion die is getting first play today and to Merry Little Christmas Anything Christmas Goes (second entry there). Thanks for all the fun challenges!!

Thanks for visiting and I hope you're enjoying the day! Happy crafting!!