Country Christmas 🎄🎄

Hi everyone, as I mentioned in a previous post, I recently visited Port Sunlight craft fair with the express intention of getting some inspiration for Christmas makes. I particularly enjoyed seeing the samples on the Card-io stall, so I bought a couple of sets of stamps to make some Christmas scenes. Here is my first make with them, which was heavily inspired by a card sample on the Card-io stall. 

Sadly I don’t seem to be able to share the picture I took of my inspiration card  on this post - don’t know whether it is a copyright issue or a blogger problem - but there were some fabulous Christmas cards on display there generally. The main changes I made from the original were to substitute different background trees and branches, animals and a different sentiment, but the overall layout is very similar so I can’t take credit for that!

I die cut a scalloped square of white stamping card, and masked the edges.  I tore  some paper masks for the landscape and stamped the focal tree with a mask in place, then added some landscaping with blended Morning Mist VFC. I stamped the second Christmas tree, then created the sky by blending with dry baby wipes, using a mixture of Morning Mist VFC and Versacolor cubes in Canary and Peony. I added the background trees and small deer, and coloured the tree lights with a Sakura Stardust pen. I stamped the sentiment and matted the panel onto a card blank, then to finish I added white Posca accents and faux snow spatters, crystal Stickles on the snow lines and red Stickles for baubles on the trees.

Stamps: Card-io Peaceful Panorama, Evergreen Encounter, Pine Forest; Inkylicious Deer Stamp set 1; Lavinia Fern branch; Uniko Christmas Sentiments;

Media: Versacolor (Canary, Peony); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Morning Mist); Sakura Stardust pen (yellow); Posca pen (white): Stickles (Stardust, Christmas Red);

Tools: Craft Addiction UK die - Scallopstack Square Frames.

Challenges I would like to enter:

12 Months of Christmas #137 - Anything Goes Christmas (2nd entry)

Christmas Crafts All Year Round (October) - T is for … (2nd entry)

(Trees)

Creative Artiste #131 - Anything Mixed Media Goes

FarmQuest Country Christmas #35 - Anything Country Christmas Goes (2nd entry)

Girlz Creative Christmas #200 - Traditional or non-Traditional Colours

Outlawz Christmas (October) - Anything Christmas Goes (2nd entry)

Peace On Earth #122 - Anything Goes Christmas

Rudolph Days (October) - Anything Christmas Goes

Simon Says (Monday) - Trees

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday #776/777 - Anything Goes

I’m really liking these tree stamps, so I think they will be appearing some more over the coming weeks. Meanwhile I’m now debating with myself whether to order any of the new Lavinia Christmas release … I’m sure resistance will be futile! 

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,