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Saturday, November 26, 2022

I made the Naughty List

 Hello, the weather is a lot better this weekend - we had a ton of snow fall last weekend so never left the house!

Are you on Santa's naughty list?  Little Chibi Xmas Decorations is the reason there is a list. She is opening presents before the big Day!

I was gifted a laser jet printer for my birthday so since then I have been playing with toner foiling. I added the included sentiment to my image, resized them both and printed using my laser jet.

I placed blue toner foil over most of the sentiment and red over the word Santa. This was then fed through my laminator giving my a foiled sentiment!'

I them colored my image with Copic Markers - She looks like she's been caught red handed opening the gift. 

I didn't go for the traditional red Santa hat and I wanted the lights to stand out against it so I made it part of her Pyjamas.

Once colored I matted an A7 card base with red mirror cardstock and added my image. I did then add a little gold gel pen to the lights - where they meet the cable.

I don't think anyone could stay mad at that little face and I think Santa would forgive her.


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Saturday, November 12, 2022

Cosy Hot Chocolate With Happy Marshmallows

Hello! Happy weekend. we have snow forecast so looking forward to staying in the warm with a cosy blanket and just maybe a hot chocolate.

Have you seen the Stamper's Delights Kawaii Xmas  Coco Digital Stamp - It is so cute! 


I couldn't resist using it for one of my holiday cards. 

I printed it twice do that I could use parts to layer it. The first image I colored it completely with my Copic markers. The second image I colored the bow on the candy cane, the top 4 marshmallows and the holly with the berries. I then fussy cut these from the image.

Using foam squares I layered the different parts onto my fully colored image to give it some dimension. 
I matted a white A2 card base with green mirror cardstock and added my topper. Using sentiment dies I cut Happy Holidays from some red mirror card and added these to my card. 

Finally I chose some 'peppermint' Christmas clay piece and adhered these around my cup.

You can find the Kawaii Xmas Coco image on Stamper's Delights webpage and he comes with or without a face - The choice is yours! 


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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Floating on Dreams

 Good morning! The days are great at the moment, nice mid temperature fall days which make being outside fun.

I'm back with a card using Maker Forte supplies, I love these images from Floating on Dreams Stamp Set. There is also trails you can add to the butterflies that have sentiments. As well as the main sentiments.


I don't color with pencils often so decided to try them and a no line coloring technique on this card. Remarkable Fog Inkis great for this technique as it leaves faint lines instead of the stark black lines. However, because I have used Toned Tan paper my sentiment needs be darker so I used Eclipse Black Ink for this.


My next stage is to color the images, I chose just a few color blends and used them on both butterflies. Coloring with pencil takes longer as you have to layer your colors to get a good coverage. My Faber Castel Polychromo Pencils lay down a good coverage of color.


The rest of the card is kept simple, mats are using colors similar to the pencil colors. A buttery yellow was my fist choice but this doesn't make the colors pop. Redwoods Cardstock on its own was the same however when layer both of these colors it gives a totally different effect.


Using a Top Folding A2 Cardbase I added the layers. I have trimmed these and my design so they are slightly narrower than my base. This draws the eye to the design.


My card needs a little more detail so I chose Roller Skates and Lemon Roller Skates.


These coordinate with the colors in the butterflies. I just like to have a little sparkle or texture on my cards. Makers Magicis great to adhere these in place and of course the Maker's Magic Wand helps to position these perfectly.


I love the wording on this sentiment I perfect way to describe a butterfly!


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