Baubles in Blue

 I've been playing with my Sweet Poppy Bauble stencil.  I decided to stick with a single colour and chose Blue.  I made two cards.

First card -

I used a magentic sheet to put my paper and then the stencil on,  The stencil is metal so this is a great way to keep it from moving.  This was sthe first one I inked up using Altenew blue inks.  The ligher shades on tne bauble and the darker shades for the rest.  I didn't mask it well and got a smudge of ink in the top corner, so trimmed panel and added a bit of the soft blue in each corner to disguise the oops... I then used the darkest inks to stamp the sentiments.  The Merry Christmas from a freebie set and the sub sentiment from an other freebie set.   I added a few silver gems, layered onto dark blue card and then added to a white card base.

This one is being entered into the Challenge at Simon Says Stamp - Summertime Blues - great for me as Christmas here in NZ in the summer. 

Second card.

This time I masked my panel better so was able to trimmed the card a bit wider and just added it to a dark blue card base.  I used an Altenew sentiment on this one.  I added snow with a Posca pen.  There are some clear gems on the snowflakes. 

This one is being entered into the CAS Christmas - Decorations 

I am defineatly going to be trying some different colours like this.