Snow Family

Hello!

 I made a little card with the adorable Snow Family from the Lee Holland collection.  Apart from the plain white and coloured cardstock, and the large shaped die to cut the card shape, everything on my card today is from Whimsy Stamps, so I've made a little list with links at the end of the post.

I coloured this sweet little family up with my distress ink markers:

Tumbled Glass (snow and snowmen), Carved Pumpkin, Broken China, Wilted Violet, Antique Linen, Hickory Smoke.

I have to admit that I had this image stamped up and partially coloured for a while now, but just couldn't decide what I wanted to do with it. I originally thought I'd make a shaker card, but then I thought there wouldn't actually be very much 'shaker' visible behind my snow family, so I didn't.

I used some papers from the Winter Wishes pad and used some of the matching enamel dots as centres for my snowflakes.

I do have to say that in the light the geometric snowflakes all matched my colouring, but as by the time I'm home from work it's really dark here, it doesn't look that way on the photograph, my lovely violet snowflakes look more burgundy!

The little sentiment is from the Penguin Adventure clear stamp set, I thought it was perfect for this little group.

Lee Holland - Snow Family

Geometric Snowflakes Die

Winter Wishes 6 x 6 Pad

Winter Wishes Enamel Dots

Penguins Winter Adventure Clear Stamp Set

You can buy all of these from Dies to Die for in the UK.

That's all from me today but you can find more inspiration here every day in the run up to Christmas!

Technique Tuesday #3 Debossing with Dies

** Well this should have gone live this morning. Note to self, when scheduling a post, make doubly sure you hit publish when you're done! But it's still Tuesday, so better late then never right?!**

Hello!

Sorry there was no technique Tuesday last week, I did have something lined up, but then I came down with the leurgy lol.

Anyway today I have a Christmas card (yup, still plenty of these to come), made using a simple technique that adds extra use to your dies.

I took a piece of medium to heavy plain cardstock and placed the 3 snowflake dies from Whimsy Stamps Layered Snowflake Set in the top left corner of the piece of cardstock. If you aren't too sure of your positioning, you could use a bigger piece of cardstock and just trim it to size afterwards.

To deboss you just need to use an embossing mat between the cardstock and the cutting plate when you run your sandwich though your die-cutting machine. Make sure you get the spacing right or the dies will start to cut through the paper anyway, particularly if your dies are sharp. 

Once I had my debossed pattern, I stamped a sentiment on the cardstock using a stamp from Mama Elephant's Jingle Greetings set, using my Misti (love my Misti for getting the placement of sentiments just right), and some silver ink. I wanted to emboss this greeting ideally, but I couldn't find my anti static tool anywhere (note to self, must tidy my craft space!). 

I made an A2 size card base from white cardstock and cut a piece of silver mirri card I found in my stash a quarter of an inch smaller than my cardbase and adhered that on top of my base.

I added a thin piece of silver organza ribbon and a tiny bow to my top layer before adding that to my base with some foam tape to pop it up a little. Finally I added 3 clear gems to the snowflakes to give it a little sparkle.

I think it turned out quite elegant and sophisticated for a simple card.

What do you think?

Make it Crafty - Fairy Bauble

Hello!
There was no technique Tuesday this week as unfortunately I was struck down with the dreaded lurgy. 2 days off work and I couldn't even make use of them to craft as I spent a good amount of that time in bed and really didn't feel up to anything the rest of the time. Even worse I missed going to see Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them....bummer.

I'm currently working on a card for next Tuesday though.

I have another Christmas card to share with you today that I made a couple of weeks ago. I kept this CAS and zoomed in on and cropped the image a little which is something that's really easy to do with digital images.

This is Fairy Bauble from Make it Crafty, I really don't colour these images up enough, I do so love their artwork.

I've coloured her with my Distress Ink markers to go with this pretty bauble paper from Kaisercraft.

Colours: Vintage Photo, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Peacock Feathers, Evergreen Bough, Aged Mahogony, Pine Needles.

Once coloured I cut her out with an MFT stitched frames die using the outside the box technique,  I stamped a sentiment from the Mama Elephant Jingle Greetings set, , heat embossed it and mounted her on my card with some shallow foam tape.

A little wink of stella on her wings and the bauble for sparkle (which of course is being camera shy),  and a few gems and the job's done!

Another Christmas card to add to the list.

Crafty hugs,