Happy Festive Friyay everyone!

Once again I’m embracing Festive Fridays by playing along with the colour challenge at the 52 Christmas card challenge where the combo is brown and red. Today I’m using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I’m also celebrating the safe return of my Penny Black Stick & Shine products which went AWOL in my craft room for a fair few weeks! The search has led to a much-needed reorganisation which is still ongoing!

I started by blending some Vintage Photo and Gathered Twigs distress ink on white cardstock and then cut a panel using the largest die from the Dainty Dashes Stackers die set (51-636). I then stamped the gorgeous Cardinal Pair cling stamp (40-912) and coloured it using distress inks and my Twinkling H2O paints. As I was restricted to browns and reds, I decided to lift some of the ink to create the white baubles. This is when I think disaster struck! I dropped some water on the bottom right of my background – creating was VERY obvious long watermark….

I didn’t want to trim down the panel so thought about adding a few snowflakes from the Extraordinary Stick & Shine sheets (15-003), but realised I wanted position the snowflakes elsewhere… so I hid the watermark with a handy sentiment from the Festive & Feathery mini stamp set (30-926) – phew!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.