Baublicious!

Hi everyone, last Friday I treated myself to some of Tracy Evans’ Christmas stamps which I had been coveting for a while, and I was quite taken aback when Royal Mail delivered them on Sunday!! Today was my first chance to have a play with them, and here is my first card.

I decided I wanted to make a scene inside a bauble, so I started by creating the bauble outline using the bauble stencil and Distress Oxide inks. I added some landscaping using acetate Mini Hill masks, then stamped the trees using masking and various shades of blue Versafine Clair. I stamped the two cute penguins in black, blotted out the background colour in their chests with water then coloured with Zig pens and added some Spectrum Noir sparkle pen. I stamped the mistletoe using Grass Green VFC and added white Posca highlights, then outlined the bauble using Sakura Stardust pen, which I also used to highlight the trees and snow - this is another very sparkly card but I couldn’t seem to capture that on camera today! 

 I added some background text stamping in Morning Mist VFC then stamped, cut out and attached the sentiment. I finished by adding some shadow with pale grey Zig pen and white snow spatters, then matted the finished piece onto dark blue card stock and a card blank.

Stamps: Tracy Evans Boutique Designs TE23 Winter Delights, TE22 Christmas Wishes, TE19 Mistletoe;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Chipped Sapphire, Stormy Sky); Versafine Clair (Twilight, Very Peri, Arctic, Grass Green, Morning Mist, Nocturne); Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Sakura Stardust pen (clear); Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear); Zig fine tip acrylic pen (white);

Tools: Tracy Evans Snippet Stencil SS6 - Bauble; Lavinia acetate Mini Hill masks.

Challenges I would like to enter:

12 Months of Christmas #115 - Anything Christmas Goes

ABC Christmas - S is for Stencils

Allsorts #800 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

As You Like It - Favourite Cardbase Shape (and Why)

(My favourite is definitely square .. I love the amount of space for creating a scene)

Crazy Is Our Fame, Stencils Are Our Game (October) - Use a Stencil

Double Trouble #176 - Anything Goes

FarmQuest Country Christmas #12 - Anything Country Christmas Goes (2nd entry)

Krafty Chicks #736 - Stamps

Merry Little Christmas #58 - Anything Christmas Goes (3rd entry)

NBUS #67 - Use Your Never-Before-Used Schtuff

(All stamps, bauble stencil and Grass Green VFC)

Peace On Earth #72 - Anything Christmas Goes (3rd entry)

Simon Says (Monday) - Christmas/Winter Card

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Things With Wings

Sparkles Christmas #165 - Use the word “Christmas”

Word Art Wednesday #667/668 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

I’m really loving my new stamps and stencil, and hope to be back with further makes as soon as possible!

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,