I'm making thank you cards to send to the people who gave me holiday gifts this year and hoping I can tie in each card to the gift itself. The idea for the first card came easily. The gift included a small bag of eight kitty treats for my cat, Bunny - one for each night of Chanukah - and though not part of the original gift, the give gave me a tin of cookies that was devoured by my husband over the last few days. So the card - kitty cat and cookies. Perfect.
I knew I would use one of the two cat silhouette stamps I have from Lavinia Stamps depending on how much room I had on the card (Mimsy, on the right, made the final cut).
And though I don't have any good cookie images in my collection, which seems impossible to believe, the Celebrations set from Altenew has a fine tiered treat stand.
Then the real challenge - how to color the treat stand. I mean, I never know how to color anything, not that I lack for coloring mediums. So I took a deep breath, checked the internet for ideas, and came across this fine card by SkyPaperScissors on Pinterest, and decided that rather than stress about for hours and try a million color combinations, which is my usual habit, I would just use the same set of color that Seeka did in that example using my Zig Clean Color markers and a water brush. Here's how it turned out:
A sentiment from Gina K Designs and a piece of glitter card stock completed the card.
Not only did I complete the card in less than an hour, I love how it turned out. My take-away: it's okay to just go with the color palette from another image I like. My card is nothing like Seeka's and not nearly as good, but it works for me!
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