Sunday, 1 January 2017

A burst of sunshine

January is quite a grey month, cold, rainy and hum...grey!

As an antidote, today I'm showing a rainbow-coloured card with a dash of black for my first Country View Challenges inspiration piece where the theme is a nice and easy Anything goes.


I first stencilled yellow ink and applied permanent masking liquid (Winsor & Newton) on top with the Sunburst stencil (Andy Skinner/DecoArt) before dropping coloured inks at the top of my watercolour card.

When the ink was dry I die-cut the Happy (Papertrey Ink) from the base card.

Lower left is a stamp from the Happy Birthday set (Rubber Dance), inked with several inkpads and the birthday die-cut is from the Handwritten Celebrate set (Sizzix/Tim Holtz).

I love the play of light on the die-cut, which throws different effects depending on the angle, below a shadow on the inside of the card:


Hope you'll get a bit of sunshine through my colourful make and that you'll join in with our challenge at Country View Challenges this month, you could win a £ 20 voucher!

Thanks for coming by,

Also entering the Artistic Stamper challenge.
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16 comments:

  1. brenda1 January 2017 at 08:20

    Such effective stenciling Christine and the bright colours are perfect for the weather which is exactly as you describe it today.

    B x

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  2. Deborah Wainwright1 January 2017 at 10:44

    Christine I love this, keeping things so clean is my biggest problem, so hats of to you lovely, hugs Debsxx

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  3. chrissie1 January 2017 at 14:13

    A great burst of colour it looks terrific

    Happy 2017

    Love Chrissie xx

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  4. Monika Gulyas1 January 2017 at 14:34

    Yeah, that's true, your card is absolutely a counterpoint of what I'm seeing right now from my window :-) Great cheery card, Christine! Happy New Year!

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  5. ionabunny1 January 2017 at 15:24

    Gorgeous colours and a lovely cheerful start to the year. Happy New Year. Hugz

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  6. Sue1 January 2017 at 16:44

    This is fabulous Christine, such happy colours. Have a wonderful 2017 xx

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  7. Jane1 January 2017 at 17:30

    A great sunshine card Christine. Happy new year xx

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  8. rachel1 January 2017 at 17:48

    Cool work christine.. this is brilliant! Happy new year! Hugs rachel x

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  9. Corrie Herriman1 January 2017 at 20:19

    Happy New Year !
    This makes me long for Summer ! Gorgeous !
    Corrie x

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  10. nefertiti/Sylvie1 January 2017 at 21:43

    J'aime beaucoup le rendu de ta carte, superbe résultat!
    Bonne année, belle créativité, et une énorme santé pour 2017!!
    Bises,
    Sylvie

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  11. Hazel Agnew1 January 2017 at 23:12

    Enjoying your sunshine. Love it! Xx

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  12. Evelyn Walter1 January 2017 at 23:38

    Happy new year, dear Christine! Your colorful card makes me smile, beautiful make!
    xx Evelyn

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  13. Bibi Lindahl2 January 2017 at 06:36

    Such a festive antidote! Love your card - an explosion of colours! Very cool how you've used the die cut and the shadow effect. Thank you for using our birthday stamps! Happy New Creative Year! ♥

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  14. rosiejt2 January 2017 at 16:28

    What a wonderful card!

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  15. maria f.10 January 2017 at 20:11

    Very cool design!

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  16. Jennie -The Artistic Stamper31 January 2017 at 14:00

    Amazing card ! Thank you for joining in The Artistic Stamper Creative Challenge this month xx

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