Northern lights

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

So I've made a start on my Christmas cards at last :D

After being inspired by the wonderful watercolour backgrounds created by Tracey Hey at Alpaca Pals I wanted to have a go myself. My Gansai Tambi paints are out on loan so I treated myself to a watercolour travel set. 

There is a nice range of colours but with hindsight I should have gone for larger paint pans because you can't use a large paintbrush without picking up neighbouring colours, which is a bit of a pain if you want large areas of colour.

My first attempt looked really blocky because I painted onto dry watercolour paper. For my second go I wet the paper first, so the colours blend together much better. 

Ingredients:-

Snow Buddies rubber stamp (Lili of the Valley)

Black Versafine ink

Large Christmas Greetings (Lili of the Valley)

Wishes die (Impression Obsession)

Stitched Landscapes die (Memory Box)

Iced Spruce Distress Ink

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

We love Chocolate Baroque Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge W for Winter Wonderland/X for Xtra Special

Cute card thursday #659 Anything Goes

Tinker- Dream  #btchallenge94 Background

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x