Hot Chocolate and Cocoa

 Good afternoon. Are you looking forward to the holiday this week? 

Well before that Crescent Creations has a new release and are doing a blog/you tube hop to celebrate where you could win yourself some goodies. I have used Sweet Christmas for my inspiration:

I resized the cups and placed them together, they are great for building a scene because although they are png images they are solid images so you can layer them without the worry of the back image showing through. The sentiment was added before printing on to stamping cardstock.

The images were colored with Copic markers I then added glaze to the tall glass to make it look more like glass.

I matted an A7 card base with green glitter card, this card is part of the new release and is great because although the glitter shines amazingly it doesn't shed!

My image was added to the glitter card stock I felt the card needed something more so I used the lights from Christmas Gnomies digital stamp set, colored and cut them a few times and strung them along the top of the card.

To take part in the hop you have to stop at each of my teamies blogs/you tube channels and leave us a comment. The winner will be announced on 30th November on the Crescent Creations channel and Instagram. It would be amazing if you could subscribe/follow all the design team's channels as you hop!

You hopped here from Tammi and the next amazing inspiration is Heather's. If you get lost along the way head back to Crescent Creations for the full list!

Thanks for stopping by.

Artist Trading Card

 Good Morning from a rainy Michigan. We've had a mismatch of weather this last week, snow, wind, sunshine and now rain.

My post today is using one of the new releases from The Little Paper Tree. I used there Sunshine and Bee Designs digital stamps - Poppy Wreath:

I decided instead of creating a greeting card with this I would make an Artist Trading Card (ATC). I printed the image off smaller than I would usually do and colored the whole of the card with Copic markers. I chose to do pink poppies instead of the traditional red. I finished the center of the flowers with a yellow glaze pen to give some shine and dimension.

Once the image was colored I sent in back through the printer to add the sentiment. I did it this way so none of it was lost when I colored the image.

Finally I matted it onto a card printed with ATC details on the back.

Thank you for taking time to read, If you love what you see you can buy the images at The Little Paper Tree store where they sell lots of crafting goodies. Do You want some discount? Then use SHARON10 during checkout for 10% off your order!

Happy Fall

 Good afternoon! I've had a busy day, early hospital appointment and then doing my chores but I've now got a few minutes to write up my blog post for some design team inspiration.

My card today is using the Happy Fall digital stamp set from Crescent Creations. It's finally starting to look like fall here, the leaves are changing color and showing us God's box of crayons! I have tried to replicate some of these colors in my design:

The digital set comes with the happy Fall both with leaves under it and on its own. I decided to use the former but have also added more leaves to it before printing on to stamping card. I also printed some single leaves. All were colored with Copic markers and I added black Glaze pen to the words. My A2 card base was matted with some dark red card stock which is also part of the October release over at Crescent Creations. I then added my image. The single leaves were fussy cut and shaped with a ball tool to give dimension and to look more realistic.

Thank you for stopping by and if you love what you see please let me know in the comments.