Freebie from Mike & Paulette

With the Year of the Snake

starting tomorrow for the Chinese People,

Michael Strong has a free

digital image for you on his blog:

http://www.blog.strongstamps.com/

 

You might wonder, what is it and what can I do with it?
I give you some explanation and inspiration.

This is what we call a digital stamp.
You save it to your computer with the right mouse click trick.
Remember where you put it!!

Now you can print it any size you want.
Or reverse it, or print 4 small ones, whatever your design needs.
After printing you can color it or like I did: print it on colored paper.
Color with pensils, markers, watercolor crayons.

Use the image to your liking on a card or scrapbook page.

 

Here you see the image and if you click on

it you see an even larger version.

 

I added some tiny gold stcikers on the

snake's dots and some red gemstiones

around the snake for accents.

 

And here is another creations.

For this I used some great background paper

by Create with TLC.

The paper lanterns are also a freebie

on Paulettes blog:

http://createwithtlc-createwithtlc.blogspot.nl/2013/02/happy-chinese-new-year.html

I printed the background paper

on a cream color. The lanterns

are colored with pencil.

When finished I brushed fired brick

distress ink around the paper

and embossed it with the swiss dot

embossing folder.

The dots are also colored with fired brick

distress ink direct to paper.

The snake panel is also colored with

pencil and the swiss dots are colored with

shabby shutters green distress ink.

 

Also a few gem stones are added.

 

The numbers are from a Tim Holtz die.

This is the inside of the card.

 

 

Have a creative day!