Day 9 Soft & Subtle

Holiday Style Card Class is about

soft & subtle colors and that includes

water-coloring.

As soon as I saw Michelle's'soft

water-colored background an idea for how to 

give our kids their annual Christmas tree

ornament popped into my head!

My end results don't look very

soft & subtle but my water-coloring

behind the stars fits the bill. I added yellow
and gray splatters for interest and then some
Perfect Pearls mist.

One of the cards uses smooshing
with an acetate sheet and watercolor.
I used my MISTI to double stamp the sentiment
with Hickory Smoke ink on each card.

Canson #140 watercolor paper

Artist's Loft watercolors

Brilliance galaxy gold ink

Perfect Pearls

Stampers Anonymous Season's Silhouettes
CHF sentiment

Hickory Smoke DI

Stars handmade in Haiti, 

see papillon-enterprise

The story behind giving our kids ornaments

made in Haiti: In 1997 I went to Pignon, Haiti,

with our oldest daughter on a mission trip to do some 

painting and other work for a hospital there.

Check out Promise for Haiti. At the county

fair we went to this September there was a 

booth selling these ornaments to support

people in Haiti. I knew I had found the perfect

ornament for this year's gift to the kids.