Magic of Christmas

I’m now onto my final push of quick batch Christmas makes, and today I would like to share a few from a batch of cards I made inspired by a Jo Rice Youtube tutorial here.. 

I used the idea of creating a scene across 2 layers of card, and incorporated Jo’s brilliant  tip of outlining card panels with a pen rather than matting them onto coloured card, though as I don’t have any Sharpies I experimented with the pens I do have and ended up using the chisel tip of a Promarker. 

Card 1:

I cut my card panels and placed the layers onto the base card as per Jo’s tutorial, and used my Lavinia acetate masks and Distress Oxide ink to make my hills and moon. I then diverged from the tutorial by using the reindeer and tree as my focal images; and I made things a bit more difficult for myself by stamping the tree across 2 card layers which meant I had to stamp it twice … once on each layer. On most of the cards in this batch I stamped first with the top layer in position and then again with it removed .. but my learning point for next time is that a better image is obtained by stamping on the lower layer of card first then placing the upper layer in place and stamping again.  

I used my Sakura sparkle pen to highlight the moon, snowdrifts and tree branches, added stars using twinkly pearlescent lavender ink, then assembled the cards before adding snowflakes with my Posca pen. On these cards I added the snowflakes as dots, applying different pressure to get different size flakes. I have now given up on the flicking technique, as however careful I was the paint flew everywhere and I had to be quick to wipe it off all my craft equipment and (more importantly!) dining furniture!! 

Card 2:

Card 3:

Stamps: Lavinia “Reindeer (large)”, “Fairy Fir Tree 2”, “Stars 1 Mini”; LotV "Grungy Christmas Sentiments" (Card 1); Penny Black "a wish..." (3502F)  (Card 2); Penny Black "joy hope" (3898F) (Card 3);

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink (Shaded Lilac); Versafine Onyx, Brilliance pigment ink - Pearlescent Lavender; Sakura Gelly Roll pen - Stardust; Posca pen - white;

Tools: Lavinia acetate masks - hills and moons.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Card 1: 

Christmas Craft Creations (December) - Make A Scene

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #572 - Anything Christmas Goes with option Quick and Easy (2nd entry)

Creative Inspirations (December) - Christmas Time

Ellibelle’s Crafty Corner (December) - Baby It’s Cold Outside!

Krafty Chicks #589 - Christmas

Pixie's Snippets Playground #418 - Chrstmas/New Year and use Snippets

(I used snippets left over from cutting 5" square panels fom my stamping cardstock, to make the smaller front panels on all the cards in this batch).

Simon Says (Monday) - Cold As Ice

Simon Says (Wednesday)  - Cold As Ice

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #131 - Non-Traditional Colours (2nd entry)

Stamping Sensations (December) - Choose a Theme and Stamp It (2nd entry)

(I have chosen Christmas)

Card 2:

A Gem of a Challenge #25 - Anything Goes

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #57 - If It's Christmassy - Link It up

Country View Challenges (December) - Anything Christmas Goes (5th entry)

Crafty Catz#576 - Anything Goes - option Christmas

Creatalicious #224 - Anything Goes with option of Christmas (3rd entry)

Dragonfly Dreams (December) - Anything Goes

My TIme to Craft #472 - Christmas Animals

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #250 - Anything Goes

We Love Stamping (December) - Anything Goes with option of CAS

(I have chosen Anything Goes)

Winter Wonderland - Anything Christmas Goes (2nd entry)

Card 3:

Classic Design Challenge (December) - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Crafter’s Castle #48 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Crafts Galore Encore #94 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Crafty Creations #428 - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

Creative Moments #228 - Anything Goes

Dream Valley #260 - Christmas (3rd entry)

Paper Funday #36 - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Phew! I think that's me done for today ... hope you're all keeping well and not scrambling too much to get Christmas "done".

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,