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,
17 comments:
Super festive make, well done on getting started. Hope you enjoyed Port Sunlight too
Kathyk
Great card and snowy scene, love the stamps-well that is two more cards than me!
Carol x
A beautiful snowy scene Pauline, a lovely peaceful atmosphere, fabulous stamps and colours. xx
A beautiful Christmas card Pauline, love how this scene turned out and wonderful snowy splatter!
A lovely peaceful Christmas scene, love the robins
You have made 2 more than me! You have created such a lovely Christmas scene on this one. Love the snow xx
What a lovely wintery scene you've created. Looks so serene there. Nice job with the ink blending, especially the hill, forest and sky. Thanks for joining us at Addicted to Stamps and More!
sue n.
WOW what a wonderful Christmas card, Pauline. I love your winter scene, the snow splatter is fantastic and the robins are so sweet.
Hugs
Anke
A lovely Christmas card with a beautiful, serene scene. Thank you for playing with us at Addicted to Stamps & More challenge with your charming creation!
Super sweet card! Thanks for joining the Christmas Only challenge on The Outlawz.
A beautiful winter scene, Pauline. I love the design. Sounds like you had a great time at the craft fair.
Liz xx
Good luck getting the number of Christmas cards you need sorted out before the big day! You’re off to a great start with this one. Love this festive scene. xxx
Absolutely beautiful holiday scene! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Stencil Fun & Peace on Earth challenges! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Stencil Fun Co-Owner
Peace on Earth Co-Owner
Beautiful card!!! Thanks so much for participating in our CHRISTMAS CRAFTS ALL YEAR 'ROUND challenge!!! I appreciate that you play along and I enjoy visiting your blog!! Have a happy crafty day!! Deanne at A Little Bit O’ Paper
What a wonderful, calm festive card. SO very lovely Pauline. x
Hi Pauline
Well done on getting started with Christmas .. .. it is scary how fast this year has flown by.
Love the pretty scene you have created - the sky is gorgeous and great use of your Posca pens. Really must get mine into action one of these days.
Love and hugs
Jules xoxoxox
You've created a wonderful wintry scene for your Christmas card! It's delightful to see you use stamps and stencils/masks along with your ink blending and color-filling techniques into a different arrangement for a unique creation! Thanks for sharing with FQCCCB!!! We're open until November 25th, so please come back.
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