Aquatint Poinsettias

Evening all! 

I had a day off work today and I was baba free so I got a good crack on with Christmas cards! I managed 20 in all so I've got plenty of blog fodder to keep me going for a while ;)

I'm still loving my Spectrum Noir Aquatints, I made the background below using the Pastel set and spritzed it with glimmer mist before allowing to dry thoroughly.

 I then spread a bit of the ink around on my blending mat and used my Indigoblu Poinsettia stamps to pick up the ink and stamped onto the background.

I totally LOVE how this turned out and will definitely be trying to recreate this effect in different colours. My new Bright and Beautiful set of Aquatints have now arrived but I didn't use them today as I wanted to concentrate on getting as many cards made as possible and I knew I would just get too carried away if I opened them! Playing will be for another day :)

I added a stamped woodware sentiment and red gems to the centre of each Poinsettia.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Love to Create - Christmas

Creative Knockouts - bling

Delightful Challenges - bling

Creative Fingers - Anything goes

Polkadoodles - Clean and simple

Crafty Calendar - Christmas

Dream Valley Challenges - anything goes

Thanks for visiting me today :)

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