Christmas Kickstart Challenge

This months Christmas Kickstart Challenge is "Create a Scene"  so I dragged outs lots of different stamp sets to create this little winters scene.  The tree is from a very old Hero Arts set and the reindeer is part of the Clearly Besotted set "Lets Prance"  the snowman and penguin are Heffy Doodle.  Sometimes its good to mix your stamps up!!

They are all stamped and coloured with Zig Brush markers.

Had fun with this and its another Christmas card in my stash.

Hope you are all enjoying your Easter weekend even if you are in Lockdown.

Hugs
Sally

Starry Starry Night!!

A card for the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Starry, Starry Night" using my favourite reindeer stamps from Clearly Besotted.  Cut the happy word using Altenew letter dies and added the Heffy Doodles Christmas Die, I also added some Nuvo Glimmer paste to the tops of the letters for a snowy effect.  The background is created with Cracked Pistachio and Salty Ocean Distress Oxide inks, and also using the "Falling Snow" stencil from Simon Says,

Have coloured my reindeer with Zig Brush markers and layered them up on the card, lastly adding my shiny stars.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

Hugs
Sally

Christmas Kickstart Challenge!!

I always like to try and take part in Jo's Christmas Kickstart Challenge if I can , but this fortnights challenge is "Jingle all the Way".  Unfortunately I don't have any stamps with bells on and couldn't find any digital ones that I really liked.

I found in my bits and bobs draw some mini metal bells so decided to make a card and add these as decoration.  I already had a bunch of these cute reindeer from Clearly Besotted stamped and coloured ready to go.  I created the background by making a stencil using an oval die and then distressing with Cracked Pistachio and Salty Ocean Oxide ink.

Next I added the snow with a Simon Says stencil called "Falling Snow then adding the small village die cut and highlighting this with Nuvo Glitter paste.  The Sentiment die is also Simon Says.

Next I layered up the image onto a red card blank, adding the gingham ribbon and my miniature silver bells.

We are having another wet day here and its really miserable, so I am snuggled up in my craft room having fun!!

Hope you are having better weather where you are.

Hugs
Sally

More Christmas Cards!

Another wet miserable day here in Beaminster so I have had time for lots of crafting, here are two Christmas cards I have made for a couple of challenges. I have two Distress Oxide inks, Salty Ocean and Cracked Pistachio and I love the look of them when blended together, so pretty!

For this first card I have blended the background then added two Zig coloured reindeer from the Clearly Besotted "Lets Prance" set.  The sentiment is a die from Simon Says.

The reindeer have been pop dotted up for texture.  I shall be adding this card to the current Christmas Kickstart Challenge "Woodland Creatures"  and the current Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Christmas".

For my next card I have again used the pretty distressed background, this time adding a SSS Snow Flake and Holiday Frame die, I then also mounted the base onto some silver glittery card for extra sparkle.

I shall also add this to the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge,

Off to make more cards now, a perfect distraction from the weather!!

Hugs
Sally

Christmas Kickstart Challenge !

Its Tuesday and time for another Christmas Kickstart Challenge, this time the theme is "Woodland Creatures"

I love this  "Lets Prance" set from Clearly Besotted the reindeer are so cute and perfect for this theme!  I created the background with Salty Ocean and Cracked Pistachio Oxide inks adding some splashes of colour and then Nuvo glitter paste and the SSS falling snow stencil. The house and tree die is from Memory Box and the sentiment is also Simon Says.

Another card for my Christmas stash which is building nicely now.

I shall also add this card to the Love handmade cards Flickr challenge and the Simon Says Instagram challenge.

Hugs
Sally

Rudolfs Gift!!

Whilst looking through my dies I found this older present  one from Simon Says so decided to make another card for the Christmas Kickstart Challenge, another shaker card but I love this type of card for Christmas, just perfect with the glittery sequins!

Lots of sparkle here as the background striped card is glittery as well as the red ribbon, even added some glitter to Rudolf scarf! The Rudolf is from a lovely set by Clearly Besotted.

Still trying to get to grips with my new camera, the card is brilliant white but its fooling the camera meter and makes it look very blue!  Obviously I need more practice with it lol!

I will also add this to the anything goes challenge at the Simon Says Wednesday blog.

Have a great weekend

Hugs
Sally