I didn’t intend to make a Christmas card, but when looking for a sentiment to fill a corner, the JOY is what worked. So it became a joyful card and probably a Christmas one in very untraditional colours.

I stamped the leaves from the Lighthearted Leaves set (one of my favourites currently) in the archival basic black ink – this great ink has meant that my previous favourite, memento ink, is gathering dust. I coloured in the leaves using Stampin’ Write markers in pear pizzazz and rich razzleberry. I didn’t colour perfectly, thinking that a little flash of white here and there made sense with the roughly drawn image. Something else was needed so I looked at a few sets for a small sentiment, Holly Jolly Greetings was on the table and JOY fit. I’ve stamped that in rich razzleberry.

A skinny mat of yet more rich razzleberry before mounting that on to a base of pear pizzazz and my clean and simple and, in my opinion, effective card is complete.

See you tomorrow,

Liz