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One Last Christmas Card

so I had to use this cute Hero Arts deer.

Kept it simple.  Quick colored pencils, Glossy accents on the scarf and various black parts...No distress ink! I'm itching to get back to coloring flowers....

MOOD WHEN DONE = done

Distressing Patterned Paper

Another Christmas card -- uses my favorite Poinsettia from Waltzingmouse Stamps.  Colored with Ranger Distress Stains, colored pencils and Copics (it was laying on my table and I just kept fiddling with it...)

Here's the orginal patterned paper before I added Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint and Twig (can't remember the real name) -- all Ranger Distress inks.  The sentiment is also in the Twig. I'm liking that color...

Love those distress inks!

MOOD WHEN DONE = Confused. Listened to C-Span to testimony before some Congressional committee on a proposed merger between two drug distribution companies, which would affect small pharmacies but possibly give lower prices overall.  My confusion?  Why am I listening to this stuff?? (I need to get out of Washington!)

Cute Deer/Relaxing Techniques

Here's a Christmas card that takes lots of time and inky fingers to make.  (I'm pretty sure that the deer and the tree are not in the "right" spots vis a vis each other -- the deer should be smaller and lower, but I had fun making this, so I decided to keep and share this card as I really love the result.)

1. Die cut white paper twice.  Tear bottom of one die cut, and Distress with Shabby Shutters ink and adhere as shown.  Stamp deer on top and color with pencils, blend with a clear Copic.

2. Mask deer.

3.  Stamped tree behind the masked deer. Stamped the bottom of the tree a second time, cut and layered over the green background.  Colored tree with pencils (and a Red Copic).

4.  Mask everything and rub Ranger Weathered Wood Distress Ink over the entire thing. Stamped snowflakes with the Weathered Wood ink over the background and added white dots with a gel pen to the centers of the flakes.  The white helps unify the image.

5.  Trimmed striped paper and rubbed with Shabby Shutters Distress ink.

6.  Took a Sakura Black Multiliner pen and went over all the black lines.  This helped make them pop against all that distress ink. 

7.  Added a lot of Ranger Clear Glossy Accents -- on the ears, nose, all the red highlights, star and the antler tips.  Stamped sentiment on bottom.

8.  Took some kraft cardstock and stamped with an Impression Obsession swirl background, using Ranger Picket Fence stain (white).  Die cut and rubber Ranger Walnut Stain over the whole thing. 

MOOD WHEN DONE = Jolly

Iced Spruce Holly

This card is all about the colors...

Card Construction Details:

1.  Wanted to use the new Ranger Distress inks -- Iced Spruce and Festive Berries (the ones I swore I wouldn't buy). Love them. The Iced Spruce is a gorgeous gray green.

2. Took the white holly leaves left over from a die cut with my Silhouette machine and covered them with Iced Spruce ink.  Stamped the leaves with a Penny Black crosshatch background in gold.  Ditto with the berries (used Festive Berries ink). Sponged edges of leaves and berries with more ink.

3.  Stamped white strip of cardstock with one of the border stamps from Waltzingmouse Nordic Winter and covered another piece with Festive Berries.

4.  Stamped sentiment (from A Muse Studio) in Iced Spruce.  Was glad to get a decent image from distress ink as those inks are not meant for sentiments. 

5.  Adhered as shown and layered on a white card, with the left edge moved all the way to the edge of the card.  Just felt like doing something different from my usual.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Festive!

Holly Card, Silhouette Style

This card uses some of my favorite card making supplies -- my Silhouette, felt, dimensionals and Distress ink. 

The Silhouette cut the wonky square with the holly inside and I backed it with felt.  Martha Stewart tag punch and a bit of twine finish it off.

MOOD WHEN DONE = happy

Doves and Holly

Stamps -- Flourishes Doves and Holly and music background from Cornish Heritage Farms.  Layout inspired by Jill Foster's cards here. (Everything she makes is an opportunity for me to learn.)

 

Lots of steps on this one -- too many to detail.  However, here are some highlights --

-- all paper is A Muse vanilla cardstock.  green layer covered with Ranger Shabby Shutters Distress Ink and then stamped the music background with water.

-- holly leaves colored with Copic markers and then painted over with a combination of Ranger Glossy Accents and Shabby Shutters ink (combined both on a craft sheet).

-- red paper made with vanilla cardstock covered with Ranger Festive Berries Distress Ink and stamped with the music background and black ink.

-- doves stamped twice.  added cut out doves with dimensionals

 -- Finished card -- 3.75" x 7 (plus the dove tail!)

MOOD WHEN DONE = Glossy, Inky, and Happy

Silhouette Snowflake

Finished card is a 4.5" square.

Love this snowflake cut out of a wavy square with the Sihouette. Popped it on top of this cardstock, painted with Twinkling H2Os.  (I've used the snowflake itself on another item.)

Sentiment from Papertrey Ink.

Sweet.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Twinking!

Nordic Winter Sampler

LOVE this Waltzingmouse set.  May be one of my all time favorites.  I started simple --

And kept going --

And going --

And going, but I won't bore you with all the color variations.

Hope your week is a good one!

MOOD WHEN DONE = Merry

The Stockings Were Hung...

Colored with pencils.  Die cut the kraft panel and popped it up with dimensionals.

<-----Accented with Micron Black pens from Sakura.  (After I colored the image, I traced the image with these fine black pens.  This set was about $16 and worth every penny.  Really helped make the image pop.  Got mine at Angela's, my LSS. 

More accents with Ranger Glossy and Black accents. Adhered kraft panel onto an A Muse Studio black card. 

Image from Impression Obsession; sentiment from PTI.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Merry!

Substitute Stamping...Debbie's Christmas Tag (and an update on life...)

Found this pretty Christmas tag (scroll down to the second tag) that Debbie Olson made last year and decided to substitute my supplies and make something similar. 

Here is my version:

Card Construction Details: 

1.  Die cut ornament (Memory Box).  Stamped part of Holiday Cheer from Impression Obsession and colored with pencils.

2.  Die cut tag (PTI) and stamped flourishes from Waltzingmouse on to kraft tag.

3. Stamped A Muse Studio sentiment in Versamark and embossed in white. Trimmed and adhered to tag.

4.  Adhered ornament with dimensionals and added Rangers Glossy Accents.

5.  Adhered strip of red cardstock.

6.  Added ribbon (SU) to tag and adhered tag to card. 

7.  Rounded edges of card.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Relaxed from all that coloring.

If you are interested in reading about my Mom and life, read on. Otherwise, hope your week is a good one.