Christmas Wreath (Craftin Desert Divas)

First, I masked off the image with drawing gum because I wanted to create a light blue background behind the wreath. I used Tumbled Glass distress ink and tried to blend out the ink as best as I could. After the ink was dry, I peeled away the drawing gum which unfortunately wasn't as easy as it teared the paper ever so slightly. But fortunately I was able to hide that with the coloring of the image.
I colored it with Spectrum Noir markers (cat: TN7, TN8, EB5 + FS2, FS3 + IG6, IG8, IG10 + EB2, GB8, GB10; bow: CR10, DR2, DR6; wreath: LG3, LG4, LG5, CG4, DG3 JG1). I wasn't quite sure how to color the wreath and I started out coloring it completely with my lightest green color. But I somehow didn't like it, so I tried a dot technique with the remaining green tones and I thought it turned out quite nicely. I also used a white gel pen to draw some dots on the cat's fur and a hightlight on it's nose and used Wink of Stella on the bow.



Because I printed my images with a laser printer, I wanted to foil my sentiment with red foil. I used ran the paper with some foil through my laminator which came out quite okay. I recently ordered the Mini Minc to see whether this is actually better than my laminator (it seems as if the foil isn't transfered evenly) and I have to say that it really does seem to do a better job.
To finish off my card I trimmed it down on the left and right side. I inked the sides of a piece of white card stock with VersaMark and embossed it with red glitter embossing powder by WOW. I than adhered the embossed piece to a card base and also adhered the front panel on top of it.