Snowflakes

Hi Everyone. Hope you had a great weekend and for those of you in the US, I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving this week. My kids, along with their families are all coming here for Thanksgiving this year. My husband and I are beyond excited to have everyone together again. Most of the kids and grandkids are hoping we get some snow while they are here. Not sure the weather is going to be cooperative, but with all the talk of snow, I decided to make some snowflake cards for today's post.

I joined the Spellbinders Small Die of the Month Club a few years back and have enjoyed the variety of dies included each month, some more than others. This month has a few snowflake dies and I am loving them. I die cut three flakes in white CS. These are actually sized so you can layer them together. I decided to keep my cards flat and used them as individual flakes. 

I started with the card base, masked off the edges and used some Gesso mixed with water to add splashes for the snowy background. The white frames were created using a couple of Fawn Lawn Rectangle dies. The sentiment is part of the Christmas Scene greeting and was stamped in matching inks and embossed with clear EP, then die cut with a SB banner die. The snowflakes were glued onto the cards and the banners are added with foam squares for some dimension. I added some milky white half pearls to the centers of the snowflakes to finish it off.

These were quick and easy to put together. And since I'm so far behind on my Christmas card making, I'll probably be doing a few more of these.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a blessed Thanksgiving!

blessings,

shelia

Holidays

Happy Monday Everyone. Hope you had a wonderful weekend and were able to get into your craft area and be creative. Nothing relaxes me more (and stresses me more LOL) than creating cards. Today I have two cards to share with you: one for Thanksgiving and one for Christmas.

The Thanksgiving card uses the more recent small die of the month set from Spellbinders. I tried to create the lady to look like me - gray hair, but the rest of her really doesn't look like me. I mean I will be presenting some pies at Thanksgiving to my family, but I won't be dressed like this. I'm pretty sure I'll be in jeans! :-)  Anyway, here's my card.

I began by creating the lady with all the die cut pieces. To create her dress and apron, I stamped some Old Olive ink onto white CS using the Polka Dot background image. Once everything was die cut, I glued her together complete with the pie. While that dried I stamped the floor image with Memento Black ink and colored it with Copic markers. I masked the floor and sponged on some TH Distress Antique Linen ink for the wall. The pumpkins were stamped, colored with Copics and fussy cut. I glued two of them onto the floor and added some foam adhesive to one for dimension. The See You Later was die cut using the same die set from Spellbinders. My kids and their families are all traveling here for Thanksgiving so I created a card like this for each one. I'm so excited to have everyone together here for the holidays!

My second card is a pretty quick and easy card. I've been using the Snowman image quite a lot lately. He's adorable as well as easy to color and fussy cut. I especially like him layered on top of the die cut snowflake from Sizzix.

The snowman was stamped, colored and fussy cut before attaching him to the die cut snowflake. The panel and frame were created using a Fawn Lawn rectangle die set. The Peace and Joy greeting was stamped with black ink and then I added the snowflake and snowman. It looks like his scarf and hat band are orange in the photo, but they are red in real life. 

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you have a wonderful week!

blessings,

shelia

Merry Christmas

Hi. My card today is for this week's sketch at MFT. It's a great sketch and I enjoyed working with it. Here's the sketch:

And here's my card:

I started by creating my background paper using DRS Designs open plaid background image and stamping it with TH Distress Oxide Candy Apple red ink. I didn't want to cover any of the stripes up so I didn't add the bottom strip of paper like the sketch has. Hope that's ok.  Next I stamped the snowman image with Memento black ink, colored him with Copics and fussy cut. He is layered onto a white snowflake created with a Sizzix die and then the greeting was stamped with VersaMark ink onto black CS, heat embossed with white EP and die cut with a banner die. I really like how this turned out. In fact I created a second card using purple instead of red ink. My niece loves purple so it will be her Christmas card this year.

Thanks for stopping by!

shelia

Merry Christmas

Happy Monday Everyone. Hope you had a wonderful weekend and found some time to get crafty. I decided I had to get started on Christmas cards. I have really neglected to make them all throughout the year like I usually do. So I have lots to make!

I decided to go with a very quick and simple card. Those are my favorite, go to kind of cards. For this one I started with the white panel, embossed it with a Darice Snowflake Swirl EF and attached it to the navy card base. Next I stamped the small navy strip with the snowflake background using VersaMark ink, heat embossed it with white EP and then attached it to the white panel. The die cut snowflake is from Ranger. Isn't it a pretty snowflake?! Last I stamped just the Merry Christmas greeting from the Christmas Scene Greeting with Versafine majestic blue ink, heat embossed it with clear EP, die cut it with a SB label die and popped it up over the snowflake with some fun foam.

This would be fairly easy to mass produce and I may end up going that route! Though I do have a hard time creating more than 4 or 5 of the same card. But this year may be different since I'm so far behind. We'll see.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you are further along with your Christmas cards than I am!!

Shelia