Mission Not So Impossible!

Today at Summer Card Camp, our mission (should we decide to accept it) was to take a Christmas stamp and use it in a non-Christmas card (sticking to the week's color palette). Truth be told, I don't have many Christmas stamps, so this might have been Mission Impossible for me.  However, tucked away in a little corner, I found my "Christmas Bough" set from Unity and the ideas began to flow.

I started out using watercolor paper with my new Distress Ink Markers over an embossed image (a couple of times).  They weren't quite what I was hoping for.  I wanted the bough to be downplayed a bit and this made it more of a feature.

Then I stamped off the bough one more time and pulled out some of my Copics and colored over the brown ink.  I cut it out, found this sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and called it a day!