Snowmen with beanies - a set of cards

Brr, it's cold outside! Even snowmen need warm beanies! So, more cards this way comes. These are made using a Stampers Anonymous stamp set as well as some craft felt. 

I made a set of these cards alternating the background color and matched that with the bobble on the beanie. Well, I matched in two cases out of three - the pink and the green. However, I used an icy blue for the purple one. The snowman is built using both the little snowman and the head in the set - something I saw online and wanted to try out as I find the big headed snowman endearing. Instead of the top hat he has on the set I cut three beanies out of craft felt and decorated those with small pompoms.

The background of the cards are done using Distress Inks, the coloring of the snowmen with brush-tip markers.

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a splendid Wednesday!

Materials: Stampers Anonymous, Ranger, Korttipaja, Sinelli

Wreath card - Gelli Arts

Heippa! It's the final posts of 2024 this week! First up is this wreath card I made for Gelli Arts. If you want to see how I made it, you can see the Reel here (link) on my Instagram.

I used two green PaperArtsy paints to create the card. I first spread a layer of spruce green paint to my Gelli Arts plate and patterned the layer using a self carved holly leaf stamp. After letting that layer dry I added some red berries in the mix using a Q-tip. Again, a bit of drying and then I lifted the paint using another shade of green. To finish the card, I added some doodles, sentiment sticker and a couple of sequins.

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a jolly Tuesday!

Materials: Gelli Arts, PaperArtsy, Sinelli, Posca

Vintage Wishes - a pair of cards

Moikka moi! It's again Friday and that means a new process video on my YouTube channel! This time I'm making some Holiday cards using old cards as my focal points. Want to watch me create the pair? Then please head over to my YouTube channel and check out this video (link) uploaded there. 

The idea behind this pair was to re-use or re-purpose in a way some old received Christmas cards. Or rather. it was to give you the spark to do so as I actually needed to buy these cards and then cut them apart! I used Distress Inks to make the backgrounds for the characters and added some pattern using a couple of stamps. As I used vintage styled focal points, I made quite easy brown-toned backgrounds that fitted both of the focal images. 

Besides the inked background and another little layering piece, the cards don't have many details. There's a piece of old book paper to give more of that vintage vibe and a little sentiment wreath sticker stating "Merry Christmas" in Finnish. Apart from those, there's just a small twine bow adding another texture to the makes. 

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a wonderful Friday and pleasant weekend! 

Materials: 

old Christmas cards

Fabriano - Accademia 160g cardstock

Tsukineko - Versa fine Clair Nocturne

PaperArtsy - TS065 stamp set

Stampers Anonymous - COM007 Ticket stamp

Ranger - Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Scorched Timber

Ranger - Distress Oxide Peeled Paint

Posca PC-1M white

Christmas sentiment stickers

kraft card bases, vintage book page, nature twine

double sided tape, foam tape, craft glue

brushes, paper cutter, scissors, ruler, water mister

A cup of hot cocoa - a pair of ATCs

Care for a cuppa? Here's some mint chocolate inspired ATCs! 

Some weeks ago I received my order from Nannan Paperi ja Helmi, which included this die and embossing folder set. Naturally I needed to play with my new toys immediately and created this pair of ATCs using them. Instead of coffee or tea, I decided to make hot chocolate mugs - kind of bringing the Holiday vibe to the make. I used Ranger's Distress Inks to color the pieces I cut from cream colored cardstock. The candy cane sticks I made using a red brush tip marker, and added just a hint of ink to the edges of them. The whipped cream on top got some extra fluff from Modeling Paste and the little biscuit some details using the markers as well and then some sprinkled sugar using Rock Candy glitter.

If you want one of the pair, please let me know and I'll mail the cup to you! I'm also delighted to do a swap! 

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a nice Wednesday!

Materials: Sizzix, Ranger, Tim Holtz Idea-ology, Prima Marketing

Emerald butterfly - a card

Hi there! Today I have something quite different from the Holiday theme that's been going on for a while. It's a card, but this time a emerald colored butterfly. I made this based on a request from my husband. 

I really liked making this card, but it was a bit difficult as well as I didn't know the receiver and was kind of flying in the dark with it. This was a congratulations card for newly weds. The color scheme came from the bride's dress and butterfly from her love of butterflies. The glitter details were as well something she had in a music event this year. 

The background as well as the butterfly are done using a PaperArtsy acrylic paint. For the background I then layered other paint layers and stamped details as well as Posca doodles. The butterfly on the other hand is just stamped using a Stampers Anonymous butterfly stamp and embossed using golden embossing powder.

I hope the couple liked what I created! But, it's the thought that counts after all. 

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a lovely Tuesday!

Materials: PaperArtsy, Stampers Anonymous, Ranger, Tim Holtz Idea-ology, Carabelle Studio, Posca

Holiday Klimt - PaperArtsy

Moikka again! Yesterday I shared a pair of cards (link), which were inspired by Gustav Klimt and done for PaperArtsy. I then hinted also, that I actually made a trio of cards and the third one would be a bit different. Today I'm sharing that third one.

While the other two were without any sentiment, I added a Christmas greeting to this card. I also used a red card base instead of white and instead of clear rhinestone stickers used red half pearls here, which reminded me of berries.

If you want to know, how I made the cards, please head over to the PaperArtsy blog (link) as I have a detailed step-by-step post there! The background is done using embossing powder resist and the character coloring prompted me to get myself a Christmas gift! More about those both here (link).

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a beautiful Wednesday! 

Materials: PaperArtsy, Ranger, Tsukineko, Korttipaja, Sinelli

Gilded Klimt - PaperArtsy

Hello there! Here's something I created for the "Gilded" blog topic for PaperArtsy. You can see the original post with a step by step here (link).

Like I write in the post, it's peculiar how gold makes me think of Gustav Klimt. I've used him as an inspiration source before and also - there's plenty of painters and artists who use gold! But still my thoughts steer towards him whenever gold is mentioned! It might be the impact he had on me back in school when I was doing a presentation about the art nouveau style and stumbled upon his paintings. I also love the juxtaposition of the detailed, more naturalistic faces of the characters, and the meticulously painted patterned backgrounds or robes.

For PaperArtsy I created a trio of cards. I'm showing two of them here and shall blog the third tomorrow. These two are quite identical, but there's a slight difference in the third. The card here below is the first one, the one I made while shooting the step by step pictures. The two others I made when I had a better understanding of the composition. If you want to know to what I refer to, please head over to the PaperArtsy blog and read the post (link)! 

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a sweet Tuesday!

Materials: PaperArtsy, Ranger, Posca, Sinelli, Tsukineko