get cracking on christmas: february 2022

Welcome to another month of Get Cracking on Christmas! If you have not heard about this monthly Challenge, it is a challenge started a few years back by my crafty pal Jenn Shurkus. She started this challenge as a way to work on your Christmas cards all year long…and it certainly has helped me during the holiday season the past few years. 

I missed out last month, so this month I decided to make an entire stash of cards this month. I always love the look of a hand painted card, but let me tell you I certainly don’t have time for that. I used the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Winter Watercolor set to help me out. I stamped the tree using the new Evergreen Bough DIstress Archival Ink onto all of my card panels that I cut from White Distress Heavystock. This type of image gives the perfect base for the painting. I decided to make 12 at once, since I was taking all the paints out anyway. 

For the paints, I put a bit of Candied Apple, Twisted Citron, Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral and Picket Fence paints onto my Tim Holtz Glass Mat, then I painted the dots on, one color at a time. I painted all 12 one color and by the time I got back to the first one, it was pretty dry for the next color. The more I painted, the looser I got with the dots and I liked the look even better. You could dry them with a heat tool as well if you were just making a few (or one). 

Once all of the dots were dry, I added a Mirrored Star that I had inked with Mushroom Alcohol Ink to the top of each tree and also added a cut out sentiment from the Holiday Postmarks stamp set. That’s it, easy peasy and I hope you love the painted look of these cards as much as I do! Are you ready to join in? Just make a Christmas card and be sure to add the hashtag #getcrackingonchristmas so we can check out your creation! 

Also, my friend Jenn creates a card each month, and in addition to that she has a You Tube Live to show how she created it! This month she will be LIVE on YouTube Friday, February 18th at 8p ET. 

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