Tree Farm Fun

 Good afternoon from a windy rainy Michigan! It's not looking very festive out but hey there is a week to go yet. 

Have you got your trees decorated? Sunshine Bee designs Festive reindeer are visiting the tree farm, in fact I think one has already got the lights on his tree!

I made this slimline card using the festive reindeer digital stamps and the tree from Christmas Fairy digital collection.

I colored all the images and then used my scan n cut to fussy cut them. 

My card base was ink blended with distress ink before the images were adhered in place using both wet glue and foam squares.

I added glaze pen to the tree lights and the little reindeer noses. Finally, a good scattering of glitter to make the 'snow' shine.

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!

Fairy Elves Have Trees Too!

 Good afternoon. It is bitter cold here and we have had plenty of snow over the last few days - It looks very Christmassy. We decorated for the holidays at the weekend so the inside of the house looks just as festive!

Talking of decorating - do you know who decorates the trees in town? Well it's the fairy elves of course!!! I caught a couple doing so for my latest card:

these super cute images are Sunshine Bee Christmas Fairy digital stamps. they were all colored with Copic markers and fussy cut. My card base was matted with gold mirror card and some snowflake digital paper. My tree was adhered flat to the card. 

My fairies were joined together with some twine threaded through where their hands were. The twine was then arranged over the tree and the fairies glued in place with foam squares. Finally I added some Golden Baubles embellishment mix to the tree and some glaze to the star.

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!

Merry Puppy Christmas

 Good morning! Hope everyone is ready for the holiday. Thanksgiving isn't celebrated in the UK but we've embraced it since coming to the US.

My card today is using some of The Little Paper tree's new release, if you know me I'm crazy about my fur babies so as soon as I saw this little guy he was printed and colored:

This little guy and his tree are part of The Sunshine and Bee digital stamp collection Fairy Digital Stamps - He has 2 fairy friends also in the collection.

I printed him and the tree on Stamping card and colored him with my Copic markers. I matted an A7 card base with green mirror card and some festive digital paper. I trimmed my image and matted it the the same green mirror card. Using word dies I cut Merry Christmas 4 times, 3 in white card and the forth in mirror. I stacked these to give dimension.

My image was added using foam tape again for dimension. Finally I added Golden Baubles to the tree as ornaments.

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!

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!

Remembrance

Good Morning! Remembrance Day also called Poppy day is the 11th of November - The significance of the day is, I hope, known to all. It was when World War 1 ended - The 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month.

In the UK with is remembered by the wearing of a poppy. My card is using the Stained Glass Poppy from The Little Paper Tree:

I colored the Poppy with Copic markers and cut the circle out.

I matted an A7 card base with red card. I then printed the Flanders Field poem onto grey card stock. If you've not heard the poem it tells the reason for using the poppy as a symbol of remembrance.

I added this to my card base and adhered my Poppy with foam tape.

Using my Cameo I then cut the letters for remember and added these to the card. This didn't appear to stand out as much as I wanted so I covered the letters with crystal glaze.

I hope my card has made you stop and think about the significance of the date. To all the veterans including my own Kev. Thank you for your service!

Swarming to Bee Happy!

 Good morning, busy day today so hoping the weather stays dry, the colder temperatures are setting in which I can cope with.

My post today is more inspiration from The Little Paper Tree's latest digital stamp collection. Meet Bella Bear Bee:

Isn't she the cutest! I colored her with Copic markers and fussy cut using my scan n cut.

 matted an A2 card base with Black cardstock and some digital design paper onto which I printed my sentiment. Finally I added a swarm for her to join using little clay bees

A simple card but I just love it!

Thanks for stopping by, you can purchase Bella and all her friends over at The Little Paper Tree. While there check out all the other crafting goodies they sell and if you want 10% off use the coupon code SHARON10