Supplies: Paper - Recollections A2 card;
Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor;
American Crafts Christmas plaid
Stamps - Stampendous Jolly Santa
Dies - AJVD Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set
Other - Distress Inks; Glossy Accents; foam tape;
printed sentiment strip (SSS, I think);
Tim Holtz Christmas Snippets ephemera;
stars are EK Success, I think
Stamped the Santa on watercolor paper and watercolored with Distress inks. Fussy cut and added to a buffalo plaid paper (yes, Betty - from our hoarded Target paper pad). Adhered the sentiment strips. What to add to finish the card? It look bare with just the Santa. Since vintage, I dug through my Tim Holtz stash and found some ephemera to add, plus some stars. Yay, that did it!! I'm not really happy with the watercoloring I did (some of the black ink smeared a bit) - oh well...
Next I have another winter wreath card, this time 4.25" square. I wanted to play along at Darnell's IDEAS - this week: Inks.
Supplies: Paper - Neenah Solar White;
scraps of silver, red glitter & green
Stamps - Recollections Mini Bows
Stamps with Dies - MFT Winter Wreath
& Winter Songbird (retired/NIB)
Dies - Poppystamps Merry Christmas Moonlight Script
(retired but found HERE at Frantic Stamper)
Other - foam tape; Copics; Hero Arts inks
Stamped, die cut and colored the birds & wreath. Stamped, colored and fussy cut the bow. Trimmed an A2 card down to a 4.25" square and inked in from the edges, leaving the center palest. Die cut the sentiment, including a second outline in silver as a shadow. Assembled the card using foam tape on the sentiment and behind the bird heads. Sort of a lame use of inks to just ink the background but that's what I was feeling... I'll also share this card at Merry Little Christmas #64 where Anything Goes.
Two more cards for the Christmas stash - I'm up to 51 which isn't too shabby! Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a crafty week!!
4 comments:
Two lovely festive cards for your stash.
Oh, I really like the birds on a wreath card. :-)
Two cute cards, Linda! Love those sweet little birds!
Wow, 51! You're doing great! I don't think I have more than 20 so far. Need lots more! Your vintage Santa is such a beautiful classic, straight from Coca Cola, and the one that I grew up with for sure. Love the vintage ephemera and the buffalo plaid with him. I do love a wreath and birds, too. It's hard for me to pass up a cute or pretty bird stamp or die. Two beautiful cards, Linda, and I'm glad you shared your Santa with us at Christmas Kickstart!
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