invites, tutorial and thank you!

Well your response to my question about my Christmas Brunch invites was fantastic - thank you.!!  Lots of good ideas, and great support.  Most people wanted the tree,  and loads of you wanted bright colour ... well I've gone with the tree but I'm afraid that all my attempts at colour just looked gaudy.

I have no pretensions about any artistic ability, these are really just doodles in paint but I thought you might like to see what I have ended up with, and how I got there.

I decided to go with a grey/lilac card

I brushed this with an almost dry brush of white acrylic paint, then the square 

centre in a deep mixture of black, mauve and pink

 

Using a silver felt pen, I drew my little tree and a rough frame outline

then I went over that with a metallic ink pen, doing both layers is 

worth while for the added depth and texture

With a paintbrush I smeared glitter paste over the bauble

tied my silver lilac cord and added some pink polka dots

then using my metallic ink pen, I wrote the invite on the back 

before popping each one into its envelope.

Voila!  Thank you for joining in.