Christmas Tag Card with Digital Stamp

Hi friends! Today's card is playing with 2 challenges. One is a sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

And the other is The Sisterhood of Crafters last challenge for the year: Anything Goes/Christmas/Winter:

I have this beautiful Snowy Church Digital Stamp from Power Poppy by Marcella Hawley:

I have had an ornament die in my stamp for a long time and wanted to use it with this digi stamp. I sized the church to fit inside the ornament and printed on my Brother laser printer using Ranger's Water Color Paper on the smooth side. Then I cut it out with the ornament shape. You could use a circle or oval die and add a bow and twine to the top if you don't have an ornament shape.

I watercolored the image with my Altenew 36 half pan set using favorite water coloring brushes: Silver Brush by Black Velvet size 2, 4 and 8. They hold a nice sharp point and I am able to get into corners easily no matter which size I use. The size 8 just holds more water and paint, but I can still paint tiny images with it. To get the dry paint moistened I use a pipette and drop a little bit of water into the half pan. It loosens up in a few minutes. I am usually painting in the living room with the hubby watching TV and using this collapsible cup works well home and travelling.

Once the image was totally dried, I used some liquid adhesive (Tombow Mono and Gina K Connect are my favorites) here and there to reflect snow and sprinkled glitter onto the image. It really gives a nice shine. I tried to capture it in this picture:

The background is a piece of olive green cardstock in my stash (Taylored Expressions has a very similar color) and I used MFT's Romantic Script Background stamp with Scrapbook.com's Olive Hybrid Ink for a tone on tone look.

To finish I pulled a Simple Strips Christmas Sentiment from my Simple Strips Storage:

I can't tell you how much I love having all these sentiments ready! I spend a little time embossing various ways or just stamping and die cut them out. One pass - the are all stamped and one pass they are all cut. This time I used the Simple Strips Well Rounded Die, just to mix it up! It's so great to have them when you need to finish a card and don't really feel like embossing. I have all of the Simple Strips Stamps sets that Taylored Expressions has made in this size: Woof, Meow, Friendship, Crafty,  Birthday, Sympathy, etc. and their storage container!

To finish, I die cut the ornament topper from gold card stock and add gold string. Lastly, I stamped an inside sentiment from Scrapbook.com's Christmas Wishes stamp set and adhered a few Crystal Clear Rhinestones from Trinity Stamps.

Well that's it for today. I really liked how this came out and made a few more just to have on hand. One will be for an ornament exchange for my painting group. We are having a Zoom Christmas party this year and have a "Dirty Santa" exchange, but it has to to mailable in an standard envelope. 

Happy Holidays, be safe and stay well!

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