Free Snowman!

Good morning, has everyone recovered after the holidays? We are almost back to normal just got the decorations to get put away and I will be happy! We have snow but hey it's winter what do you expect.

Today's card is showcasing SumMore Fun's Watercolor Snowman stamp set and it is a cute one!!

He comes unassembled so I decided to stamp him the same way.

I stamped his head and body on black card in an opaque ink and added his face by coloring the stamp with markers.

I then stamped his arms, hat and scarf on separate pieces of white card.

I matted these onto the same card stock used for my card base. I then added the Free Snowman sentiment to the arm stamps.

 I decided to make my card into an impossible card and details of how I made this can be found on I Heart Maggie's Blog

I thought this was a great way to display all the snowman parts - You have to go hunting around the card for them!

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Wine and Canvas

Good morning, Hope you all had a fab Christmas and Santa was kind to you - He was to me I was thoroughly spoiled by family and friends

A few weeks before Christmas my BFF and I went to a wine and canvas evening, well for us it was a cocktail and canvas - that actually sounds better!

We painted a snowman family using water soluble acrylic paint. I have proudly displayed the canvas in my craft room.

We started with blank canvases and lightly marked out our family:

So Mommy, Daddy and Mollie. You can just see my friends canvas - she was brave and did all 6 of her family!

Once we had done this step and everyone had caught up we moved on to filling in the background, the original painting looked like it was a wooden background so we used various shades of brown:

Once this was dried we moved on to the snowmen (well snowman, snowwoman and child lol)

We painted the white in first giving it a good couple of layers so it covered the drawn lines

Adding the colors for the scarves before doing the final white layers. 

After a break to allow the white to dry we got to give them their personalities - well their faces:

I also added some highlights and shading to the scarves.

The final stage was to outline the snowmen, I didn't trust my hand to be steady enough to do this with a paint brush so I waited until I was home and used a sharpie marker to do this

This was the 2nd Wine and Canvas we had done. They are held at our local gold course restaurant.

The first one we did was in October and we painted a fall scene:

We are now looking forward to Spring and summer so we have a full collection!

Winter Wonderland

Happy Saturday! I don't know about you but I am struggling to work out what day it is - having Kev and Mollie at home makes every day the same

I'm here today to showcase a SumMore Fun winter stamp set, I have used Winter Heart and Sole on my card which is currently discounted:

Do you get the play on words? Sole - yes the stamp set has skates and snow shoes! I chose to color the skates with my alcohol markers. I added the sentiment and randomly stamped the snowflakes (also in the stamp set!) in weathered wood distress ink. 

I matted my scalloped card base with some blue card that complemented to inking and coloring. then added my topper. 

I then used a Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen on each snowflake to make them glisten which is difficult to pick up with the camera.

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Thinking of You at Christmas

Good morning from a snowy Michigan. We had a heavy snow fall on Sunday night and a few flurries since so it seems to be hanging around!

It's the start of our December Challenge over at SumMore Fun and this month's theme is of course Christmas crafting. You enter by leaving your photo on our SumMore Fun Creations Facebook page in the December challenge album. Don't forget you can use any SumMore Fun stamps to enter and if you subscribe to the newsletter you can get free digital stamps and use these to enter!

On to my make - I love the Swirl Christmas Tree so I decided to use this to make my own design paper: I stamped it multiple times in different angles with green ink

I then used the same green ink on the Thinking of You at Christmas sentiment. I matted my 4.25inx5.5in card base with some festive green mirror card and added my design paper. My sentiment was matted with the same card and I used some green foam sheet to add this to my card giving it dimension. To finish added some pearl pen in Emerald which has a great shine to tie in with the mirror card.

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Don't forget that all you have to do is use one of SumMore Fun stamps somewhere on your project to enter our challenge.

 Oh and do you  want some discount too? Use the code SHARON10 at check out and I will save you 10%

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All dressed up half way reminder

Good morning! I'm sorry I've not been around, life took a turn and I had to concentrate on things around me - BUT I'm back and will be posting more than ever as I have lots of new goodies to show you

All you need to do is follow this month's current theme which is All Dressed Up and use at least one of their many stamps (even one of the digital freebies!) and you could win a $20 gift card, if the design team love your make we will be giving a prize of $15.

You don't need a blog, you just need a photo of your creation and post it in the current challenge album on our SumMore Fun Creations Face book Page

Ok this month's theme is All dressed up, yes we have just had Halloween so could be a Halloween make but don't forget about Thanksgiving - turkeys, Christmas, party season it's all go at this time of year and we all have some even to make crafts for that will include dressing up.

We don't just want to see cards, if you do mixed media, scrapbooking, journaling, planners anything goes as long as it's hand made by you and follows our theme.

I have decided to do a Christmas themed card for this post. with Jolly old St Nick himself making a comeback

Yes Santa himself gets dressed up for his night on the tiles!

I stamped the Large Dear Old Santa in black ink and colored him with alcohol markers. I then used a circle die to cut him out and inked the edges of the white card so it wasn't so stark.

I matted a white card base with red card and this gorgeous vintage patterned paper. I positioned my image on the card. I then added transparent pearl pen to his glasses imitating the lenses.

I die cut 'believe' and added a few color matching pearls to balance the design.

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