A whimsey snowdude christmas

Hello.

I'm still making my Christmas cards and today I reach for some paper smooches stamps.

I still haven't got a Santa stamp can you believe that? So i had to use Jerome the gnome from paper smooches instead.

I have kept this very simple as I'm planning on making a few.

I made the background using a Lawn fawn stitched rectangle die and some distress inks. 

My favourite mix at the moment is peacock feathers and chipped sapphire.

I then splashed with some glittery mist that i have,

I have Jerome as a single stamp but he is now available in the forest whimsey set.

He is coloured with copics to look like Santa and then fussy cut.

The robin and snowman are both from swanky snowdudes and again coloured with copics and fussy cut.

They are all adhered on foam tape.

The sentiment from joyful greetings is heat embossed in platinum.

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Thanks for looking.

Christmas Crackers!!!

Hello there :0)

Well...Two weeks ago I was on a Christmas theme, then last week Halloween and I'm back to Christmas again today..... with all the yummy Christmas themed stock flooding the store it would be rude not to *wink*

For my card today I've been stretching my stash. I've used the Paper Smooches Stockings dies and made Christmas Crackers with two of the stocking cuffs....

Don't they look cute!!! A great project for using up those festive scraps of paper.... and they would make great wrapped sweets too :0)

You can see how I used a thin strip of card to hold the shapes together, it also meant I had something to adhere those gorgeous dainty bows from Avery Elles Finished Frames die set too. They look soo pretty in gold foiled card but you could easily use festive twine or narrow ribbon instead :0)

Using a craft knife I cut a zig zag through one of the crackers and added the sentiment above it along with a sprinkling of confetti die cut in the same gold card..... very festive :0)

                                  
                                                                  

As always I just want to remind you of the new Paper Smooches Sparks challenge this week, it's Anything Goes. Please pop over and check out my teamies inspiration projects and join in the fun :0)

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x

Christmas duo

 Hello.

Another two Christmas cards from me today. :)

The first using CAS_ual Friday's.

I used the new Funky round tag fri-die and Naughty or nice stamp set.

I die cut the bauble using the large tag on glitter card and used the funky shape...which i think can pass for a snowflake to cut out the centre.

The smaller circle was used to go on the back....after i stamped and heat embossed the same shape from Exclamations which is currently out of stock.

I used  blue ribbon and then matching ink to stamp the shapes under the sentiment.

This card uses Paper smooches.

I used Joyful greetings and Leafy greens.

The leafy greens set is just perfect for creating holly.

The paper panels are Echo park dots and stripes Christmas.

I have followed the sketch from Paper smooches sparks challenge.

Thanks for looking.

Chilly chums

Hello.

I thought i had better get started on some Christmas cards as we are now into November.

I have used Paper smooches Chilly chums set.

I started by making the background with distress ink then heat embossed some snowflakes from the set

The snowy panel at the bottom of the card is actually glitter card .

My camera didn't want to show you that though lol.

I stamped each of the characters in archival black ink then coloured using inktense pencils and water.

That was the first time i have tried them and would recommend them ....although i still need some practise :)

The sentiment is also from Paper smooches and is in the Joyful greetings set.

If you are looking for Christmas stamps Louise has made a special section in the shop just for it HERE. 

Thanks for looking.

Making Spirits Bright!!

Hello there... hope this Monday finds you feeling bright or do you feel more like this chap on todays card???

Yep, I'm sharing my DT card for the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge with you and this week is a great sketch to inspire your creativity.
I love the expression on this chubby walrus's face .... definitely one I can associate with over the Christmas period, so I had to go with irony and pair him up with this sentiment from Joyful Greetings.

Wrapping the lights around him mean't some fiddly cutting but the pop of glossy colour really is worth while. To tame the twine into behaving how you want it too, try the trick of rubbing on Claudine Helmuth Studio Matt medium with your fingers before shaping and twisting the loops and leave it to dry on a non stick craft sheet.

Stamps used : Chilly Chums, All Yule Need, Joyful Greetings and Shadows.

So if your curious to see this weeks sketch, hop over to the PS Sparks blog and play along with us :0)

Thanks for stopping by, see you next Monday with some Lawn Fawn inspiration!!
Jenny x

Joyful greetings

Hello.

I have been looking at different ways to use my dies and nesties.

While die cutting lots of pennets for bunting i realised the negative could be used as a Christmas tree. 

I stamped the sentiment from paper smooches "Joyful greetings" .

Although this set is currently out of stock  you could use ...

Grafitti 

Alphadot 

And make your own sentiment.

Thanks for looking.

Greetings of the season

Hello.

Another Christmas card from me today.

I used paper smooches Chilly chums and Joyful greetings sets.

I ripped some white card to make the snow drifts and added some stickles to the edges.

The walrus? is coloured with Copics.

I used a dies from Wplus9 for the clouds.

Thanks for looking.