Big Holly Jolly

I have another splash of Christmas cheer from me this morning as I couldn't wait to 

watercolour this large Holly Sprig from Colorado Craft Company...

I love how the image just gatecrashes the whole card! 

I stamped the whole image out onto a piece of watercolour card with Versafine 

Onyx black ink and just enjoyed having a play with water-colour ...

trying to get the areas of highlight and shadow on the leaves.

I trimmed the finished piece down to a 5" square using an aperture template to find the best

 position for the sprig on the card front. I embossed the sentiment in gold but didn't 

feel it stood out enough so embossed it in white on black card instead. I used scissors 

to trim around the sentiment and adhered it over the gold version.

I used a glue pen and some foil to add a few touches of gold as well as 

white gel pen for highlights on the berries

I'm pretty pleased how this turned out .... 

a nice stamp to practice water-colouring with 😉

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x