It’s Beginning to Look a Teeny, Tiny Bit Like Christmas! 🌲🌲

Hi everyone. OK, so here we are in mid October, and how many Christmas cards have I made so far this year? Err… that would be two then! ☺️. So I thought I should finally get a wriggle on, and to help me with that I visited Port Sunlight craft fair on Saturday, in the hope that I would be tempted by some festive stash which just might give my mojo a kick start! I bought 3 or 4 festive items, so today I would like to share a card I made with a Tracy Evans stencil I purchased, heavily influenced by one of Tracy’s video tutorials even though most of the stamps I used are Lavinia.

I cut a 14cm square of white stamping card, and repeat stencilled the fir tree using different shades of Distress Oxide ink while also having a hill mask in place. I then used the hill mask to blend the landscape, and removed it to blend more DOX for the sky. I stamped the lamp post and coloured the lantern with Sakura Stardust pens, then stamped the robins and coloured their chests with red and white Posca. I stamped the sentiment and added Posca snow spatters, then edged the finished piece with black marker pen and finally matted onto silver mirri card and a card blank.

Stamps: Lavinia Street Light, Small Robins, Seasonal Words; Uniko Christmas Wishes;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Twisted Citron, Crushed Olive, Rustic Wilderness, Stormy Sky); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Acorn); Sakura Stardust pens (yellow, orange): Posca pens (white, red);

Tools: Tracy Evans Boutique Designs snippet stencil SS044 Tall Trees.

Challenges I would like to enter:

12 Months of Christmas #137 - Anything Goes Christmas

Addicted to Stamps & More #527 - Christmas

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

(Trees)

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

Creative Inspirations (October) - Anything Goes

FarmQuest Country Christmas #35 - Anything Country Christmas Goes

Krafty Chicks #841 - Christmas

Love to Scrap #181 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Merry Little Christmas #70 - Anything Christmas Goes

Mix It Up #85 - Anything Goes

Outlawz Christmas (October) - Anything Christmas Goes

Peace on Earth #121 - Anything Christmas Goes

Word Art Wednesday #772/773 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Hope this will be the first of many Christmas makes over the next few weeks!

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,