Believe In The Magic Of Christmas-Send A Smile 4 Kids

 

This month at Send A Smile 4 Kids, we are celebrating all things hearts or snowflakes. I chose to use snowflakes. I adhered a piece of patterned paper from My Mind's Eye's Oh What Fun 6x6 paper pad directly onto my white A2 cardbase. I die cut a large circle using die from Gina Marie Designs and used a drifting double edged border die from Simon Says Stamp, I created a snow drift. I inked the background of the circle die with Tim Hotlz salvaged patine distress ink. I stamped the polar bear and sign from My Favorite Things Cool Day stamp set and colored them using my alcohol markers. I fussy cut them out and popped them up off of the card using thin foam tape. I stamped a few of the snowflakes from the same stamp set using my salvaged patina. I added clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh around the images. I stamped the sentiment below the focal image using Memento tuxedo ink and Miss Ink Stamps Season's Greetings stamp set. I finished this card off with some star dust Stickles on the snow drifts and the sign. Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Be sure to stop by the Send A Smile 4 Kids blog and see how everyone else was inspired. We would love for you to participate in our challenge too! 

Believe In The Magic Of Christmas

Hello, and happy Friday! Today's card was created for the latest Freshly Made Sketches card challenge. I created my card by stamping the adorable snowmen from Close To My Heart's Snow Friends stamp set onto my card base using a Copic-friendly ink. I colored the snowmen with my alcohol markers and then masked them off using a bit of painter's tape. Using the Falling Snow stencil from Simon Says Stamp and Hero Paste in white, I added my snow. Once that dried, I ink blended several shades of Tim Holtz distress inks in shades of blue to create my sky. I stamped the sentiment from Miss Inks Stamps Season's Greetings stamp set onto white cardstock, created a fishtail banner, and adhered it directly to the card panel. This was a very simple card to create and think I might make several more of this one to send out at Christmas. Thank you for stopping by my blog. All comments are read and appreciated greatly. Have a safe and dry weekend!

 

Warm Winter Wishes

 

Hello! I was invited to guest design for the October Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge! This month's challenge is sponsored by Miss Ink Stamps, and they were kind enough to send me some goodies for the challenge. To create my card I started by die cutting the focal panel from a Gina Marie Designs scalloped rectangle die and some real red cardstock from Stampin' UP. I then cut down a smaller panel and using the Miss Ink Stamps Diagonal Lines stencil and Tim Holts distress inks in Shabby Shutters and Fired Brick I created the inked plaid background. To create more interest I freehand drew in some white lines with my white gel pen and added some tiny black dots at each intersecting line. I mounted that panel onto some plain white cardstock and die cut an oval window using a My Favorite Things oval die. I then die cut a smaller oval window into the red scalloped panel using a Spellbinders oval die. I adhered all of the panels together and mounted them up off of the card using 3M foam tape. I stamped the gnome from Miss Ink Stamps Big Mugs stamp set, colored it using my Copic markers, fussy cut the image out, and mounted it in the oval window with more foam tape. I stamped the sentiment from Miss Ink Stamps Season's Greetings stamp set onto white cardstock using Versafine onyx black ink and cut it down to a small sentiment strip. I mounted more red cardstock behind it and adhered it to the card. I finished the whole thing off with some cute little black gem stickers from Honey Bee Stamp's Fresh Brewed collection.