Floral Christmas Card

I am slowly working on my Christmas cards and also trying to improve some of my skills.  Watercoloring is not one of my strong skills so I keep trying to improve.

This month the challenge at CAS Watercolor is Christmas Florals and Greenery.

The challenge this week at Addicted to Stamps is Make Your Mark - use some type of coloring medium.  I attempted watercoloring.

While I was out cruising the world of card making blogs, I found a new monthly challenge.  This challenge blog is called 613 Avenue Create.  Their challenge this month is Anything Goes with the Optional Twist of Christmas or Winter.  I made a Christmas card.

This is a stamp I have had in my collection from Avery Elle.  I think I have attempted to color it before with not so good luck so once again I tried.  It came out OK.  I used Zigs.  I used a Jane Davenport water color pallet.  I stamped and heat embossed the image with gold before I started coloring.  Supposedly the embossed edges keep the color inside the lines.  Of  course it is always red that goes outside the lines.  I added some blue to the background to ground the image.  

I matted the image in some very old gold paper I had and then red card stock before adding it to a white card base.  I had to take my picture at this weird angle so that the gold would show.

I do have another one of these images stamped and embossed - do you think I should attempt coloring it again.

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