Nature In Winter

Hello everyone and especially my lovely new followers, so great to see you here. Hope you're all surviving the white stuff and the big freeze. We lost our snow yesterday when we had a lot of sleet which we were actually quite grateful for as we were assaulted in the morning by the really nasty pong which the French were responsible for! Luckily after a couple of hours, the sleet came and got rid of it.
I'm here this evening to share a card with you that I managed to finish off today having a spare hour and rather than do the hoovering, I decided to craft! The card features an experimental background that will be a tutorial soon when I can take pics of the steps as it involves layering.
Here's the finished result and sorry about the pic quality, the light is really bad and I've struggled to make it look like it should.

The image is a really cute little pine marten by the lovely Teri of Delicious Doodles and is one of her gorgeous sketch style images which are my favourites. I printed the image out and coloured him with a mix of Prisma pencils and Promarkers. I then clear embossed the image before trimming the panel and adding it to a mat of textured dark copper card.
The background paper  is a piece of thick watercolour paper and my technique uses under and over stamping, white embossing, Distress Stains and Liquid Pearls (this is why a tutorial is necessary!) It's not difficult once you know how.
I finished off with a computer generated sentiment on a mat of the copper card. A simple design as I didn't want to swamp the gorgeous image.

More crafting now beckons so bye for now.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Some challenges for my card:
Delicious Doodles Challenges - Winter Themed Makes
I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes
Cards Und More - Ice and Snow