Thursday 5 March 2009

The Sugar Bowl - A Christmas Card


I decided to treat myself and this is what I brought - isn't she so beautiful? I decided to use her to make a contempory christmas card for the sugar bowl challenge, keeping it clean and simple at the sametime. I decided to paper pierce her as it is a technique I have not done for a while and this image looked brilliant to do it with and I was not proved wrong at all! I watercoloured her first and then added the silver highlights to the coat and then added the paper piercing. I finished the image off by adding glitz to the muff which was undercoloured in silver. The image and border (including the 2nd panel) were cut using my nesties. I then doodled a wavy border around all the papers in silver pen. I then added a ribbon from stash and 6 gems. I hope that you like it.
recipe -
image - sugar nellie - snowflake
papers - DCWV - pink christmas multi stack
ribbon and gems - stash
medium - watercolour, paper piercing and glitter glue.

9 comments:

Liza said...

Gorgeous card, love the colour scheme and the paper piecing.

Liza x

CraftyC said...

This is gorgeous Vicky, love the colours and fab stamp. Here is the link for the BG porcelain papershttp://www.craftobsessions.co.uk/basicgrey_1717.php
Have fun
Clairex

CraftyC said...

That link doesn't look right, try again
http://www.craftobsessions.co.uk/basicgrey_1717.php
Clairex

Cathy said...

Really gorgeous Vicky. Love the paper piecing and the bling!
Hugs
Cathy xx

Lilian said...

Lovely card and sweet image! Thanks for joining the Sugar Bowl challenge!

Tiets said...

a lovely card and i love the coliring!

Donna said...

Really lovely card Vicky, love the paper piecing too, it is gorgeous, love this image.
Hugs
Donna

Kim Dellow said...

Lovely card Vicky, she is beautiful, love the colours you have used as well. Kim

Gayle said...

Hi Vicky
Gorgeous Card! I do love the paper piecing for her clothes!
Thanks for sharing your Christmas sugar in The Sugar Bowl!
Sugar Mama x