Watercolor Christmas with Purple Onion Designs

I absolutely ADORE the Stacy Yacula unmounted rubber stamps I ordered last year from Purple Onion Designs. I love creating miniature worlds on my cards, and Stacey's designs offer a thousand adorable combinations for scene building. Her designs are great for Christmas and beyond! I encourage you to check out the Purple Onion website here!

Now, sometimes you win in photography, and sometimes you lose big time. Sometimes you don't realized you've lost until you've already mailed the card you're photographing, and that was definitely the case this time. This picture is absolutely atrocious, and I'm only sharing it here because this is my first real attempt at creating a watercolor background. I loved how the original turned out!

I created the background on this card by stamping the house and tree image in Staz-On ink on watercolor paper. I painted the image, sky, and snow banks with my Gansai Tambi watercolors, and then I stamped my focal image on a second piece of watercolor paper, painted it, and cut it out. I popped the focal point up just a little with some dimensional adhesive and then covered the whole scene in snow with a white gel pen. (Remember, snow falls in the foreground and background!)

I finished this project off with a dark blue card base and a heat embossed greeting on a strip of vellum. Then off to Canada in time for Christmas! 

I had a blast creating this card, and I have tons of other design ideas using all of my Stacey Yacula stamps! Thanks for stopping by today, and thanks for tolerating this shaky photo!