Friday, 17 October 2014

A Bokeh Christmas

Yay - the sun is shining again and so I felt like celebrating by making a bright card.

I followed the method shown in Dawn's video here,  to create the Bokeh effect. I did change it a bit, by using the back of various rubber stamps and the rubber on the tip of a pencil, because I was too lazy to make a stencil. I would probably trie using a stencil next time, so I can control the amount of ink applied.


I began by creating the watercolour background with Distress Inks and  then I stamped the sentiment from Hero Arts, Miracle of the Holiday and white embossed . When it was completely dry I used the circle stamps and HA white ink and stamped lots of dots. I brushed some perfect pearls lightly of the dots. Then I finished off the card by mounting the watercolour panel on a white card base and adding the die cut deer and sequins.
Im entering this card in the Hero Arts Holiday card challenge - Anything Goes category.


I'm also entering this card in the Simon Monday Challenge - 'O' is for - in my case 'O' is for orange or possibly ombre.



6 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! Love the rich colours and bokeh background which make your die cuts pop - great design :)

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  2. This is fabulous, Jenny! Love the orange/yellow mix background. I would never have thought to mix deer with bokeh but it works wonderfully!

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  3. Gorgeous! Thanks so much for joining us at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog! - Ashli :)

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  4. Gorgeous card Jenny!! Love the bokeh :)

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  5. Gorgeous colours Jenny ... and love the Bokeh technique. Loll xx

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  6. oh wow your card is amazing!! ^_^
    You should share it on the LiaStampz challenge too! the theme is Black white and 1other color. You should check it out: http://liastampz.blogspot.ro/2014/10/challenge-76-black-white-1-other-color.html

    xx

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