Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, I have another Pan Pastel card for you today, this time it's a Christmas card.

I stamped the poinsettia and the baubles in Versamark, I then blended various blues over the poinsettia and silver over the baubles. I stamped the Merry Christmas in Versafine Clair. I used a fixative to stop the Pan Pastels wiping off.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Poinsettia

02.327.P

Bauble

02.331.E

07.993.F

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, here is a quick card using up one of my bubble backgrounds. To make the background you just put some ink in a plastic cup add some water and a drop of dish detergent, use a straw to blow air into the inky soapy water. If the colour is a little pale just add a little more ink. I blew the bubbles above the level of the plastic cup and placed the card on the bubbles. As the bubbles dry you are left with a pretty imprint from the bubbles.

I stamped the Canada geese and added some tree branches. 

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Canada geese

0779.O

Branch

0677

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, I have some Chickadees sitting on a branch on a sunny day.

I placed a circle mask on the card and swiped different shades of blue pan pastel over the mask. Once I was happy with the background I removed the mask and dragged some of the blue over the masked area.

I Stamped the Forest branches using Versamark and swiped blue pan Pastels over the image. I then stamped Chickadees on the branch using Versafine Clair ink and extended the branch to the edge of the card. I fixed the Pan Pastels with a fixative to stop them rubbing off.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Chickadees on a branch

0843.M

Forest Branch

0859.P

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, I have one of my coffee stained stencil backgrounds for you today.

I used the bird stencil placed on the wet coffee soaked paper, I let it dry with the stencil in place and the shape of the stencil appears darker than the surrounding paper when it dries. I added the distress oxide stenciled circles and the white numbers stamped randomly over the background to add more interest.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

0775.J

Birds and Blooms Stencil

TM298

Circle Duo TM179

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, I have a stenciled leaf Birthday card for you today.

I place the leaf stencil on some white card stock and masked off the middle with some masking tape. I blended the green and yellow oxide inks then used some texture stamps in the same inks. When I was happy with the stamping I used masking tape to cover the areas I had already blended and did the same with the centre. I used the script stamp with distress Oxide Lost Shadow to add a little detail to the background.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

TM323

07.997F

07.916Q

41.161

41.060

0814.G

Little Circle Background

0811N

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, I have a bokeh technique for you today. I used the same stamp on both cards to show you how different the image can look by stamping first or stenciling the bokeh circles first.

I taped my watercolour paper to my mat and randomly brushed watercolour over the surface. and let it dry

On the first card I stamped the image of the flowers and then used the circle stencil and white pigment ink (Hero Arts Unicorn) sponged through the stencil. I varied the amount of white ink I used to make some of the bokeh circles whiter than others

On the second card I stenciled the bokeh circles and then stamped the image. 

When the image is stamped on top of the bokeh the background looks misty and the image is stronger. 

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Wild flower stamp

14.633.P

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, I have a brightly coloured Nuance background with some pretty poppies for you today. I sprinkled Orange, Red and Purple Nuance powders on some watercolour card and spritzed it with water. As the colours merge I added more powders in areas where the colours were lighter. When it was dry I stamped the image and removed the colour from the leaves and flowers using bleach. I watercoloured the flowers using zig pens, anywhere the bleach had gone outside the lines I used a zig pen matching the Nuance powder to bring back the colour and blended it with a brush and water. To finish off the background I added some stamp layering and used orange and yellow glitter Posca pen on the centre of the main flower.

I really love how the colours pop in the background.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Flower
14650.P

Good Friends

07.1036.L

Agrias Amodon Butterfly

1858.H

41.060

Nuance Powders

Red, Orange, Purple

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, I have a Christmas card for you today. 

The poinsettia and baubles were a second generation print from a stamped card I made with the elegant writer which was sitting in my to be used in the future pile. Before stamping I spritz the ink with a fine mist of water to ensure there was enough colour to stamp. I let it dry and then coloured it with pencils. I stamped the Christmas carol background in a mix of gold and light brown and highlighted parts of the baubles with glitter pen. I then mounted the card on Kraft colour card stock. It's never too early to start working on your Christmas cards 😏

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

02.326.Q

 07.1065.N

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, my card today is a combination of cold coffee, a stencil and some stamps.

I took some instant coffee dissolved in hot water, when it was cold I poured some into a foil dish and dipped the paper in so both sides were evenly covered by the coffee. I lay the paper on a Teflon sheet and placed the stencil on top, the paper was left to dry. Once it dries the outline of the stencil is left on the paper. I used the paper you get as filler in boxes, it's an off white colour and just a little thicker than copy paper.

I used my stamps and distress inks to add more detail to the stenciled image and cut the strip to cover part of the card base.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

24.012

Love and Music

0823

Stencil

TM309

Fall Ash Leaves

0799.L

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Treats on Tuesday with Christine - La gâterie du mardi avec Christine

Hi everyone, my card today has these beautiful poppies as the main focal point and the gel print and leaves behind. I created my gel print with by brayering ink on my gel plate, I took my first print on copy paper to remove some of the ink between the stencils then removed the stencil and used my card to take the print. I stamped the leaf sprig and the poppies and coloured in the leaves with watercolour pencils. I stamped the poppies on a separate piece of card sprayed with red and orange mica sprays and fussy cut the poppies. Before gluing them down I used a black pen to run along the edge.

You can see the sparkle on the poppy flowers from the mica sprays.

Christine Alexander - DT Magenta

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Magenta products used:

Produits Magenta utilisés:

Blossoms Mask

MC01

Leaf 

0705.N

Poppies Stamp

37.288M

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