Christmas Card Day

Good morning everyone. I discovered this week that today (December 9th) is Christmas Card Day … who knew?? Armed with that knowledge I just HAD to post a Christmas card today … it would be rude not to!! 🤣🤣

I created a Lavinia Christmas snowy scene with a mixture of old and new stamps, specifically so that I could practice colouring my squirrel! I'm not really there yet, but practice will hopefully make perfect in the long run!!

I created my landscape with Distress Oxides, hill and circle masks, then stamped my trees, moon wording and sentiment using various shades of Versafine Clair, and 1st/2nd/3rd generation stamping. I stamped my squirrel several times, building up the colour and then coloured his face and tummy with white Posca pen. As always I added a lot of sparkle - this time I edged the snowy hills with Quickie glue pen and holographic glitter (VERY sparkly!!) , and I highlighted the trees with Sakura Stardust pen. I also added a sparkly colour wash to the snow with my new Spectrum Noir glitter brush pen, and drew some tufts of grass with a fine liner pen.  I finished off with some white Posca pen snow spatters before edging the finished piece with black marker pen and matting onto silver mirror card and my card blank.

Stamps: Lavinia Red Squirrel, Red Pine (Small), Fairy Fir Tree 2, Fairy Fir Tree (Small), Christmas Tree Group, Skeleton Tree Scene, Cedar, Winter Magic; sentiment - Piink Gem Designs;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Stormy Sky, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Twilight, Pinecone, Morning Mist); Versafine (Vintage Sepia); Spectrum  Noir Harmony die ink (Bordeaux); Sakura Stardust pen (clear); Spectrum Noir glitter brush pen (clear); Posca pen (white).

Challenges I would like to enter:

As You Like It - Anything Goes for Christmas

Country View Challenges (December) - Christmas (3rd entry)

Creative Knockouts #482 - Snow Much Fun

Day of the Month Card Club #46 - Christmas Card Day - WINNER

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity #157 - Something Seasonal (2nd entry)

Simon Says (Monday) - Holiday Cheer (2nd entry)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Add Some Sparkle

Stamping Sensations (December) - Anything Stamped with option Winter Wonderland

Try It On Tuesday - Winter Wonderland - TOP 5

Word Art Wednesday #573/574 - Anything Goes

I’m finally starting to see the end in sight now for my Christmas card makes … I’ve posted all that require posting, and just need to make my husband’s card and some batch makes for the neighbours and husband’s workmates. Just need to finish off my Christmas shopping now!! 

Thanks for taking the time to visit today.

Hugs,