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What better way to celebrate New Year’s Eve than with a beautiful card like the one featured in this Mid-Dec 21 post?

Colorful Streamer Background For The Mid-Dec 21 Card

Isn’t this background stunning? It can be used on any kind of celebratory card and is quick and easy to do. We’ll create a watercolor wash with our ink pads. And then we’ll stamp the streamers over the top and then color them with markers.

Rainbow Watercolor Wash

We’ll start smooshing each of our ink pads onto our worksurface or palette. Then we’ll brush clean water over a piece of white watercolor paper with a watercolor brush.

Now comes the fun part. Beginning with the Coral Berry, we’ll just pick up some of the ink with our brush and swipe it across the top of our card panel. Then we’ll do the same with each of the other ink colors. Hint: working quickly while the cardstock is still wet will allow for the inks to blend together.

Watercolor paper dries fairly quickly, but we can speed up the process by using our heat tool on the low setting.

Colorful Streamers

The streamer stamp comes straight but because it is so thing it can be bent. We are going to do just that by bending it to create a “droop” in the streamer. And then we’ll attach it to a long, thin acrylic block.

Now we will each of the same colors we used to watercolor with, only this time we’ll be stamping. And, we’ll stamp our streamer image on our watercolor paper at various angles. And this results in a draped effect like when streamers are hung in a room.

To finish off the streamers we’ll color some (not all) of the streamers using matching alcohol markers.

Party Fox For The Mid-Dec 21 Card

We’ll stamp the cute little fox onto white cardstock using multi-media ink. We do this because we don’t want the colors to bleed when we’re doing our coloring.

Now we’ll color the fox using alcohol markers. Beginning with the lightest reddish tan we’ll color the whole fox except for his mussel, belly, inside of his ears, and the tip of his tail. Then we’ll add the darker colors to add dimension. Next, we’ll color his feet and legs to the knee win a dark warm grey that appears black.

And we’ll add a little pink to the inside of his ears, his cheeks, and the pads of his feet.

We’ll color his party hat in a couple of shades of blue. And then we’ll add shadows with several shades of warm grey.

Hint: @Daniel West from Del&Artie.com is extremely talented when it comes to alcohol marker coloring. In one of his videos, he said that when we’re shading we should use warm greys for living things and cold greys for things that aren’t living.

Sentiment

To add some interest, we’re going to add a shadow effect to the sentiment. We’ll begin by brushing the card panel with anti-stick powder.

Then we’ll stamp the sentiment using a stamp positioning tool and watermark ink. We’ll sprinkle the embossing powder on and give the panel a good tap to remove any loose powder. And now, using our heat tool, we’ll heat up the embossing powder until it’s smooth and melted.

To create the shadow we’ll move the card panel slightly in the stamp positioning tool and then repeat the process using black embossing powder.

Assembly Of The Mid-Dec 21 Card

We’ll trim the card panel to A size and attach it to the card base using a glue runner. Hint: We use a die to trim our card panel because it ensures that the cuts are square.

We’re going to fussy cut out the fox and then pop him up using double-sided adhesive foam sheet scraps. And finally, we’ll add some small sequins with liquid glue for confetti.

Supplies

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• Cardstock: Card base- Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Solar White: Card panel – Canson XL; Fox – Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Solar White
• Stamp: Altenew Birthday Bash; Hero Arts Party Fox
• Die: Waffle Flower A2 Layers Die
• Ink: Altenew Crisp Ink: Coral Berry, Honey Drizzle, Aqualicious, Ultramarine, Midnight Violet; Multi-media Ink – Gina K Designs Amalgam Ink Obsidian; Watermark Ink – Versamark
• Anti-stick Powder: Rabbit Hole Cottontail Brush
• Embossing Powder: Hero Arts White; Brutus Monroe Raven
• Watercolor Brush: Altenew
• Acrylic Block: Gina K Designs 1 1/2″ x 6″
• Alcohol markers: Streamers – Altenew Coral Berry, Mango Smoothie, Volcano Lake; Caribbean Sky; Copic V17; Fox -Copic E11, E13, E15, W0, W2, W4, W8, R11, B29, B32; Floor Copic C4
• Cutter Bee: Scissors
• Adhesives: Gina K Designs Adhesive Dot Runner; Scrapbook.com double-sided foam sheets; Gina K Designs Connect Liquid Glue
• Embellishments: Gina K Designs Disco Ball Sequins
• Embellishment Tool: Crystal Katana

More Ideas For Using This Background

Here are some more ideas for using this background on other cards:

Valentines Day – use several shades of pink or pinks and reds

St. Patrick’s Day – use several shades of green

Birthday – use several shades of the birthday boy’s or girl’s favorite color

Fall – use colors from a partial rainbow such as red, orange, yellow, and green

Halloween – use orange, greens, and purples

For More Colored Background Inspiration

Click on the following link for making more colored backgrounds: How to Create Cards Stamping With Water

Everyday Cardmaking Tools

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• Glass Media Mat, Tim Holtz- The perfect work surface for doing just about everything.
• Heat Tool, Wager – For heat embossing
• Mini-Misti, Sweet Petunia- For perfect stamping
• Large Blending Brushes – 4 pack, Gina K Designs – Wonderful brushes for perfect ink blending
• Mini Blending Brushes – 4 pack, Gina K Designs – Work well on delicate designs
• Blending Brush Caddy Stand, Gina K Designs – holds 10 blending brushes and when paired with the lazy susan listed below provides the perfect way to store as well as access your brushes quickly and easily and at your fingertips.
• Set of 10 Blending Brushes and Caddy Stand, Gina K Designs
• Lazy Susans for Blending Brush Stand
• Water Media Mat , Waffle Flower– Perfect for blending. The mat holds your cardstock and your ink pad in place while working. Easy to clean
• Gemini JR Electric Die Cutting Machine – This little workhorse makes die-cutting a breeze
• Spellbinders Platinum 6 Manual Die Cutting Machine – The ultimate manual die-cutting machine
• Mini Paper Trimmer
• Stamp-n-Storage – Beautiful, well-made wood storage units for paper, ink, markers, punches
• Stamp Conditioning Eraser, Altenew – used to condition brand new stamps
• Stamp Shammy, Lawn Fawn – used to clean your stamps
• Neenah Classic Crest Solar White A2 White Envelopes
• Clear Cellophane Bags
• Score Buddy Scoring Board, Scor-Pal
• Bone Folder
• Label Machine
• 12mm Label Tape
• 6mm Label Tape
• Small Storage Pockets, Avery Elle
• Large Storage Pockets, Avery Elle
• Extra-Large Storage Pockets, Avery Elle
• Stencil Pockets, Gina K Designs
• Stamp-n-Storage Die Magnet Boards