Today, I'm delighted to be sharing a Guest Designer card for Ellie's 'I Spy with My Little Eye' challenge, where this month the theme is:
'Christmas'
Any regular visitors to my blog will know I love making Christmas cards (I make them all year round), so this theme is right up my street! I picked a cute Penny Black image to use (from the 'Wintertime Cheer' set)...stamped it on to watercolour paper, coloured it using watercolour pencils, then carefully cut it out. For the background, I heat embossed my Simon Says Stamp 'Falling Snow' background stamp on a kraft card blank using white embossing powder. I trimmed a snippet of white card to the width of the card blank, tore the top edge to give a soft 'snow' effect, then added a sentiment using a stamp from the 'Christmas Hats' set by Anita Jeram for the Colorado Craft Company. I placed that along the bottom edge of the card, then added the critters on top using 3D foam pads.
I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:
- Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
- Krafty Chicks - Christmas
- Peace on Earth - Anything Christmas
- Simon Says Stamp (Mondays) - Embossing
- We Love Stamping - Anything Goes (Optional 'Christmas')
Absolutely adorably cute and a fabulous design!
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Diane POE Co-Owner
{Nellies Nest}
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Such a lovely design, the embossed snow looks great- you reminded me I have a stamp like this - I've never used it but now I will! Such a sweet stamp too, love their smiley little faces! Thank you for joining in at Crafty Catz.
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Absolutely beautiful and so very cute!! As you may know I love Penny Black stamps and can't believe I've not seen this cutie before! Thank you so much for being our guest designer this month at I spy!
ReplyDeleteThis is so lovely Helen, it’s an adorable image and it really pops against the kraft card with the embossed white snow. So glad you are joking us as Guest Designer at “I Spy” challenge this month.
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An adorable snowy card Helen, always like your Kraft makes, thanks so much for sharing it at our Christmas theme at We Love Stamping challenge.
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Fantastic fun festive card and image, love the white on kraft look. Thank you for joining us at We Love Stamping
ReplyDeleteSo cute Helen. Thank you so much for sharing your lovely creation with us at We Love Stamping.
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Cathy
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