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Monday, 12 June 2017

…must have been some magic in that old silk hat…



I’ve got a card to share today featuring the cute Snowman image from Glimps.


The snowman is coloured with water colours and to make the card more Christmassy I did the birds up as cardinals, although frankly I need way more practice with my water colours!  The sentiment is from Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps and is one from the Holiday Style set.  It comes stacked so I carefully inked each of the three lines and used my MISTI to position each one to give me a one line sentiment instead.

Over at Winter Wonderland they are asking you to add snowflakes to your project.  I’ve already done a few cards up with snowflakes as the main image and wanted to use the Snowman so had to put my thinking cap on.  The embossing theme at Moving Along With the Times was just what I needed especially as a rummage through my embossing folder box turned up the Snowfall one from Sheena Douglas.  So I now have lots of snowflakes on my card, they just happen to be too small to look like the lovely individually shaped things they are up close!

I also wanted to play at Jingle Belles where the theme is ‘All Bundled-Up’ meaning lots of layers.  I’m loving my CAS at the moment so did my layers up in single colours rather than with my designer papers.  Including my card base and the fussy cut image I have five layers in total.

Ingredients:
Dies, SVGs & Templates etc
Sheena Embossing Folder ~ Snowfall
Inks & Paints etc
Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colors ~ No 20 Black, No 30 Cadmium Red, No 31 Scarlet Red, No 33 Orange, No 40 Lemon Yellow, No 46 Brown, No 47 Dark Brown, No 50 Pale Aqua, No 55 Green, No 61 Cornflower Blue, No 64 Blue, No 95 Silver
Papers
Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Baby Blue
House of Paper Romanesque Paper ~ Pearl
Stamps
Challenges

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Sunday, 19 March 2017

There are many people today who have, in fact, never seen an elf



This is the third Christmas card I’ve made on this wet and dreary weekend, featuring a cute image from Glimps called Surprise.


The inspiration for this card comes from Muse: Christmas Visions and the cute card by Cornelia Wenokor.  I used the image appearing from behind a design element, in my case flipping it sideways and having my elf appearing from behind a ‘north pole’.  I also picked up the texture of Cornelia’s brickwork and added in some True Snow on my pole, which I couldn’t help but make into a shaker.

With my image on the ‘edge’ as well I am also entering this into the E is for Edge challenge on at ABCChristmas.  Even after adding my sentiment I had lots of white space left but didn’t want to make my card too fussy so I added in a few snowflakes.  I stamped these with embossing ink and sprinkled on clear embossing powder so they are really subtle and are completely invisible in the photo!  Over at Jingle Belles they are looking for bling on your Christmas cards which gave me the idea of adding a gem to the middle of each snowflake to help them stand out a bit more.

Apart from the practice I need on my watercolouring I love this cute little elf; think I’ll be buying more images from Glimps.

Ingredients:
Chalks & Powders etc
Dies, SVGs & Templates etc
Embellishments
Inks & Paints etc
Posca Metallic Pen ~ Gold
Papers
The House of Paper Romanesque ~ Pearl
Royal Langnickel 160gsm Paper ~ Watercolor
Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Cherry Cobbler
Yellow Vellum from stash
Stamps
Stampin’ Up! ~ Serene Snowflakes (retired)
Challenges

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