Watercolor Christmas Card

 Hi! Good to be back crafting after a couple of weeks filled with not so fun stuff. And especially good to be back to SCS Watercolor Wednesday! Today's challenge is making  misted watercoloring with inspiration taken from this youtube video. You mist the stamped watercolor paper and work with fluid color blocks, spilling out of the image. The video is really good and inspiring and I tried. :) I think I was a bit too careful sticking close to the lines and I used a bit too light a color wash to really catch the idea. But I like it anyway. 

I'm a bit behind on my Christmas card making schedule, but this one makes three going on 35... :)

I'm entering this in the Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge.

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Papier Mache shrine

 Hope you are having a lovely Sunday! I've spent the morning hours finishing a project I've had in process during the week. As I said in my previous post, I have been bitten by the Papier Mache bug and I've been gluing paper a whole lot lately. It is so much fun. :) I started with a tiny bowl, and my next try is a "shrine". I found these lovely little pieces on pinterest and thought I'd had a go. I'm not using papier mache "clay" - I'm not there yet, so I made a base out of cardboard and glued pieces of paper on it to shape it and make it sturdy.

There are lot's of improvement potential, but I think it ended up real cute. :). Today I decorated it, inspired by the vintage feel and beautiful pink rose on this card. I printed the photo of Alice with a vintage filter and added some twine around the paper rolls to catch the kraft colors.

The shrine is painted with white acrylics and then I decopaged a rose napkin on parts and added some more white acrylic paint to get a faded vintage look. I made the roses the other day with my home cooked air dry clay. It was surprisingly easy to both make the clay and the roses. I used a recipie I found on Youtube. I'll try some non cooking recipie next time, but for now I'm good for a while. Today I painted them with watercolors in pink with a touch of yellow. 

Now my little shrine hangs in my hallway. I just put it there, but I might change the location when I know where I want it. :)

I'm entering this in A Bit More Time to Craft Extra Challenge - always anything goes.

Right now I'm trying to finish a bowl. But it is a struggle. My sweet Alice is in her most social mood...

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