Celebrating with Snippets!

Hi everyone, this fortnight over at the Snippets Playground they are celebrating, as it is the 12th anniversary of Miss Di holding the keys to the playground and taking on the thankless task of keeping us all in order whilst prodding us to submit our homework rather than playing endlessly on the swings!! Of course her headmistress-ship is undermined  massively by her partner in crime craft Sarn who seems intent on encouraging the playmates to be as naughty as possible including dangerous playground games and out-of-hours consumption of illicit alcohol - what a minx! But I digress ... 

I was inspired by Sarn's fab projects to try some paper tearing and I knew straight away I had to turn to some old kraft Christmas papers, and as luck would have it I found a few snippets!  

I also love Christmas so thought I would start this year's celebrations early, especially as we have woken up to a covering of snow this morning... perhaps Sarn will find some eggnog left over from the treehouse Christmas party (who am I kidding?? I saw the state of  everyone staggering into the dawn light after that knees up!!)

Here's the result - my first Christmas card for 2024 (that's something to celebrate in itself!!).

I took a kraft card blank and tore a couple of strips of paper from my snippets, ensuring the edges were white. I stamped the adorable robin and coloured him with Zig watercolour pens (this is my first experiment using them on kraft card and I am delighted with the depth of colour I achieved). I stamped the robin banner onto a separate snippet of white card, then stamped the sentiment and added some white Posca snow. I added some Posca pen snow spatter and when dry attached the torn paper strips and robin banner directly to the card blank.

Stamps: AALL & Create #690 Robin and Nuthatch; Visible Image Grunge Poinsettia (sentiment);

Media: Kuretake Zig watercolour brush pens; Versafine Clair (Pinecone); Posca pen (white); Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen (clear);

Papers: LotV Krafty Christmas.

Challenges I would like to enter:

As You Like It - Favourite Paper Brand (and why) - TOP 3

(I always loved LotV papers as both the designs, co-ordination and quality were fabulous)

Christmas Crafts All Year Round (January) - Snowflakes

Festive Friday (January) - Christmas

Four Seasons (January) - Winter (2nd entry)

The Holly and Ivy #154 - Anything Christmas Goes - TOP 5

Little Red Wagon #738 - Show Some Snow

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Cute Critters

Snippets Playground #471 - Celebration (and use snippets)

Triple B (January) - Birds, Blooms and Butterflies (2nd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #629/630 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

So I'm off and running with my Christmas cards for 2024 ... time will tell how long this resolution will last!

Hope everyone is staying safe and warm, especially if like here you have got snowfall and treacherous road conditions. Take care, and thanks for visiting. 

hugs,