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

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Sarah Bailey SVG ~ #111265 North Pole Sign

Embellishments

Little Things from Lucy’s Cards Shaker Selections ~ Reindeer Games

Zyneri Hotfix Rhinestone Crystals ~ 2mm Clear

Inks & Paints etc

Aleene’s ~ True Snow

Posca Metallic Pen ~ Gold

Spica Pen ~ Clear & Lemon

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Bermuda Bay

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Tim Holtz Distress Re-inkers ~ Various

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

The House of Paper Romanesque ~ Pearl

Royal Langnickel 160gsm Paper ~ Watercolor

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Cherry Cobbler

Yellow Vellum from stash

Stamps

Glimps ~ Surprise

Stampin’ Up! ~ Serene Snowflakes (retired)

Challenges

ABC Christmas ~ E is for Edge

Jingle Belles ~ BLING! on the Holidays

Muse: Christmas Visions 78

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Chunky charms

Today I’m posting something other than a card, a pair of chunky charm keyrings I made.

These were gifts for a couple of friends, I didn’t arrange the charms too well on the first one so it’s a bit hard to tell that the letters spell out ‘Janet’.  I made those charms using shrink film and the Cricut Blackletter cart.  I coloured them with various Smooch colours and then stamped using a retired Stampin’ Up set called Serene Snowflakes.

I started with eye pins to make all the charms and used a selection of glass beads and metal charms.  I still need to practice my loop making though to finish off my charms but these were a fun and easy gift to make.

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