Find Me Where The Trees Are

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Today I'm playing along with the Color Throwdown Challenge, where the colours are mustard, navy blue and turqouise.  Not an obvious Christmas combo, but I needed to crack on with my holiday cards, and I'm pleasantly surprised. I think it works. What do you think?

• stamp and die cut trees (attach trunks/pots/stars)
• die cut panel from blue card and add some white acrylic splatter
• attach trees to background with foam tape, add sentiment and some stickles glitter
• layer onto another stitched die cut, and then a card base.

Challenge

Color Throwdown

• concorde and 9th - tiny trees
• distress ink - mustard seed, faded jeans, salvaged patina, brushed corduroy
• pinkfresh studio - diagonal stitch rectangle
• wplus9 - sentiment - heartfelt holiday
• stickles gold glitter - wow gold embossing powder (stars)

Merry Christmoose

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Nancy has chosen a chocolate and mint duo, for the Color Hues Challenge. Now, that's definitely a combo I can get behind. I love chocolate chip ice-cream and I can't pass a box of matchmakers!

I've used the combo here for a Christmas card.

 

I offset the mint letters onto the gold glitter ones, to create a kind of shadow effect. I hope the gold is allowed for the challenge - I'm calling it a Christmas neutral  :o)
Then, I stamped and die-cut my moose, coloured them with copics and  another touch of gold stickles glitter and popped them up with foam tape.

Challenge

Color Hues the Color Challenge

Chocolate & Mint

mft - stitched alpha in salvaged patina distress ink
clearly besotted - merry christmoose, coloured with copics
gold glitter card, gold stickles glitter

pinkfresh studio - diagonal stitch rectangle

On The Lookout For You Know Who!

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It's no secret that I love a good doggy stamp. And this was one that I just spotted and had to add to my collection. Plus, it's a Christmas theme - double bubble :o) 

I found it kind of tricky to colour - especially those curtains - and this was about my fourth attempt. Practice makes perfect though, right?
To keep to the Jen T's sketch, over at Freshly Made Sketches, I die cut a circle into a panel with a coverplate design on it, and popped it up on foam tape over my image. 
For that extra Christmas touch, I've added a little glitter here and there.

Challenge

Freshly Made Sketches

colorado craft company - on the lookout, coloured with copics
pinkfresh studio - stitched diamonds coverplate die
nestie circle die

Everybody Conga

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Isn't this the cutest conga line?
I'm not sure what those critters are - hamsters? guinea pigs?  - whatever they are, it looks like they're all having a blast. I want to be at their party.

Once my conga line was stamped I added in all the balloons with distress inks. Then I want back and coloured the image. This is easier to colour than you might think, with the back of the stamp packet giving you a little guidance. 
Then I die cut a sentiment and popped it up with foam tape, and layered my panel onto a pink base.

 ***check out my Instagram reel to see the whole process***

Challenge

AAA Birthday 

colorado craft company - conga line, coloured with copics
balloon - clearly besotted make a wish
pinkfresh studio - perfect sentiments
distress ink - pickled rasp / mustard seed / twisted citron / salv. patina / kitsch flamingo

Ice Lolly Heaven

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Yikes - it's hot! I put the thermometer in my craft room yesterday (my conservatory) and it went off the charts at  40C+  That's bloody hot for Yorkshire :o)
Needless to say, I decamped to a cooler room to make this card.

I  can't get the hang of water colouring, but I have some gorgeous, vibrant, watercolour, ecoline brush pens and I really wanted to use them. I saw this easy technique to try and it worked a treat.
I used the brush pens straight onto my stamp, spritzed it with water and stamped. Simple!

On my first attempt some of the colours got a little muddy, so I kept a white strip between them and that worked better. If you wanted you could easily fill that white area by using a small brush, but I liked it that way.

If you follow me on Instagram pop over and check out my reel. It's the first proper, card making video I've done. Not perfect, but it was kind of fun. And I have a new respect for those card makers that video their process :-)

Challenge

Addicted to CAS 

I've gone for some tangy, tropical ice lollies  - I could just eat one right now!

sugarpea designs - summer scoops
ecoline brush pens
pinkfresh studio - diagonal stitch rectangle, warm buff ink

Hey Winter

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Does everyone find it hard to do 'random' snowflakes, or is it just me?

I have to force myself to put down the white gel pen, otherwise that bear would look like he's in a massive snowstorm!   :o)

I've followed this week's sketch at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - using that cute bear instead of the circle. 
Does anyone remember Craftwork Cards? They're not in business anymore, but I used to buy little coloured circles from them - like card sequins -  that they called Candi.  Anyhoo, this card sentiment was one of theirs too, and I found a packet of them at the bottom of my Christmas box. I really wanted to use it, so I hope the challenge DT will forgive my sentiment being out of place.

Challenge

52 Christmas Card Throwdown 

SugarPea Designs - Hey Winter - coloured with Copics
Distress Ink - Salty Ocean
Stitched hillside borders die

From little seeds, Grow Mighty Christmas Trees

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Do you keep all those snippets of designer paper?

I confess, I recently gave away most of my papers because I just never use them, but I did keep a small selection, even the teeny, tiny pieces.

This is a great way to use up those pieces.

Here, I've used a tiny, tree die, but this would work just as well with any small die in your stash.

The trees are popped up with foam pads for a little dimension.

 Snippets Playground Challenge

#433 Christmas in July 

mft - beast friends / snowglobe sentiments
pinkfresh studio - diagonal stitch rectangle