Candy Cane Christmas...

A few weeks ago I found this candy cane digital stamp at Power Poppy by Marcella Hawley.   I downloaded planning on using it in the future for a Merry Monday Christmas Challenge.   So here it is for their last challenge--create a rustic card.   I always enjoyed visiting this site whether I joined in the challenge or not.  In second grade I made a card with a candy cane on it...I was so happy a couple of months ago when I was going through some old papers of mine and my mothers to find this card.  I'm not sure if one of the earliest cards I ever made is rustic, but it is definitely "vintage" since it was made 58 years ago! (pictures below)  I decided to use the CASE challenge at Global Design Project.   I like the layering of the inspiration card and it served as a guide to the assembling of my card. I fussy cut the image that I printed on cs, and then I started using red colored pencils to color the candy cane, but it just wasn't vibrant enough so I colored over the pencil coloring with my SU real red marker...The bow is lot more vibrant and almost looks velvety.   Perhaps having a coat of colored pencil under the stripes of the canes made them come out more of the real red color.   Because the image is printed, it does blend in some of the black of the detailing.  I used Gumball green for the leaves.  I colored pink pearls for the red berries with a sharpie.  I added some die cut twigs from natural which I painted with wink of stella for a glittery glow.  I added nuvo shimmer to the green leaves.  These details don't really show well in the picture.   I plan on making more of these!       Thanks for stopping by,   Kathy