What I have Been Doing This December with Beautiful Baubles.

I have been making lots with Beautiful Baubles stamp set, some from chance and others by design.

These first two cards were by design, in that I knew what I was going to do before I started. I was going to make a stamped bauble background and layer up a couple of baubles (one die cut) in the other card, and I was going to colour using blenders. The card on the left used the 'spotlight' technique. I stamped out the bauble to make a background with Versa Mark ink and then silver embossed it. While I did that I stamped out some extra baubles and embossed those as well. I then coloured one of the baubles and the extra baubles using blenders. The colour combination on the left used Light Sea Foam, Highland Heather, Pear Pizzazz. The bauble on the right was coloured with Light Pear Pizzazz, Night of Navy, Bermuda Bay and Pool Party.

I did say I stamped out extra baubles (as in the second card) and coloured them.  When I was tidying my table I went to put the left over baubles in a box which I keep on my table for leftover bits and pieces. I started sorting through the things which were in this box as it was starting to overflow and that's when the next couple of cards evolved.
I found some bokeh background panels which I thought would team well with baubles.  I had gone crazy a while back with the bokeh technique.  If you are not sure what that is, here's a quick explanation - sponge 2-3 colours on a piece of Whisper White cardstock, then take a circle stencil and sponge a variety of circles sizes, some overlapping with Craft Ink.




Not only did I find those unused Bokeh backgrounds I also found this 'smooshed' watercolour piece. It wasn't difficult working out what to do with it - just take a look at the card on the right. I teamed the smooched paper with some Sparkling Glimmer paper to make two beautiful baubles.
I also had the flurry of snowflakes sitting on my desk waiting to be used. I had collected this die cut from an evening at Sue Madox's (my upline demonstrator). I was going to make something with it but I had drawn a blank. But while I was making the smooshed bauble card, a lightbulb went off in my head - of course, the perfect background for a snowflake flurry. And so that's how the card on the left evolved.