For Unto Us A Child Is Born

 

Hello friends! I love gnomes. Not all gnome though....I am not very fond of ones where you can see their eyes unless they are super cute but those are few and far between.

My favorite gnome stamps are from Trinity Stamps. Their little gnomes have the most personality. When I saw the new Gnometivity Stamp Set and the Good Tidings Stamp Set, I just had to have them. I had so much fun coloring them. At first I thought that the Baby Jesus was my favorite because you could see his little feet and toes but then the Shepherd is sporting a vest and scarf along with his braided beard. But what about those handsome Three Kings? So in a nutshell, I guess I don't have a favorite. All the coloring was done with Copic markers. My backgrounds are Ranger Distress Oxides.

Background: Blueprint Sketch, Mermaid Lagoon and Tumbled Glass

Background: Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar

Background: Chipped Sapphire, Blueprint Sketch and Shaded Lilac

Background: Wilted Violet, Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar

For the stamp sets that I know I am going to use multiple times or if I have used a color combinations that I like, I like to keep a record of what colors I use. Mona Toth has a download for a worksheet that I use to do that. You can go to her website, www.craftbymona.info to download blank copies. I run them off on the paper I use to do my blending to get a good representation of what I did.

  I hope you enjoy these little friends as much as I do and maybe be inspired to make a few cards of your own.

Thanks for stopping by and as always, I hope you have a great day!!!!!!

Sandy

Home For The Pawlidays

 

Hello my crafty card making friends. I was supposed to be gone all day today, but fortunately those plans fell through and I was able to stay home and spend some time in my "zen den".

I really like Lawn Fawn's interactive cards and I especially like the Magic Picture Changer - it is my favorite. I wanted to make a Christmas card so as I was thumbing through my stamps I saw the Home For The Pawlidays, from the Simon Says Stamp and Lawn Fawn Stamptember collaboration and I wondered if the dog house was the same size as the one from Lawn Fawn's Yappy Birthday. They aren't exactly the same but they were closed enough so I decided to use those two sets to make this card. In retrospect, I really just created extra work for myself because the dog house was the only piece from the Yappy Birthday set and I could have totally done the same card without doing a picture changer. It is still a fun card to give and receive though. 

 I used Copic markers for all the coloring. I used the following colors:

G07, YG09, YG67, E31, E34, E35, E55, E57, E59 Y08,Y17, YR20,YR21,YR23,YR24, R05,R17,R29, CO-C6

I ink blended the background paper, the Magic Picture Add On and the Magic Picture pieces with Blueprint Sketch and Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide Ink. I speckled all the pieces with white opaque acrylic paint.

I used the small snowflake dies from the Winter Wonderland Window and the Snow Flurries Backdrop to cut out snowflakes from Pixie Dust Sparkle Cardstock. For the sentiment, I used the Merry Christmas Line Border die.

I colored a whole bunch of treats, toys and bones to add to the base of the picture changer. Those two puppies sure got quite the haul or "howl".

I hope you had a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Sandy

You're The Marshmallows To My Cocoa

 

Hello! Lawn Fawn has some really cute tea pots and cups in their collections. I made this card and another one a few weeks ago when I thought that we might be heading into hot cocoa and hot tea weather.

I am in love with the Favorite Flannel collection. I think all of the colors are just so yummy. If they were an actual flannel, I would make a rag quilt out of them. I used the Outside In Stitched Heart Stackable to cut out the background for this card.

For this card, I used the Thanks A Latte stamp set. The Copic markers used are:

B91, B93, B95, RV11, RV13, RV14, E30, E31, E33, E35, R14, R17, R29

I used the Scripty Cheers die for the sentiment. The hearts above the cups are cut from cardstock using the Hearts & Stars Skinny Tags .

These two little cups are just so cute don't you think?

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are well and that you are able to do something this week that brings you joy!

Sandy

Warm Winter Wishes

 

Hello! Would you like a cup of tea? I am a herbal tea drinker. I have never really acquired much of a taste for black tea or green tea. What kind do you prefer?

For this card, I used the Magic Iris Beehive Add On for the body of the teapot. All you have to do to turn it into a teapot is cut off the bottom rib and then add the top, handle and spout from the Stitched Teapot. I also cut out the little plate from the Stitched Teapot die set and set it to the side, For the cookies on the plate, I used the flowers from the same die set, cut them out of cream colored cardstock and used some light brown marker to "toast" the edges.

The sentiment is Magic Holiday Messages heat embossed with gold metallic embossing powder.

I used the Stitched Trails Hot Foil Plate with Gold Glimmer Hot Foil for the steam coming out of the teapot.

To give the card a holiday feel, I used the new Holly Leaves Border.

This is a very quick card to make. and it doesn't require a whole lot of supplies or dies. I used a lot of scrap patterned paper for all of the cut out pieces.

Thank you for stopping by and as always, I hope you are well.

Sandy