A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Tea Time and a Tiny Snowman

Inspired By challenge inspired me to use their theme of tea time.   And Stamping Sensations wants a hand coloured image.

The image is stamped and watercoloured, fussy cut around its edges, bordered with some gold cs, and popped up on fun foam.

Addicted to CAS has the code word "Brrr!".  I used up some a bunch of little bits from my desk and ended up with this card.  I think that little snowman looks very cold under that night sky!  And the Four Seasons Challenge wants "winter".

I had a leftover bit of a galaxy background (created by smooshing with various oxide inks, spritzing with Perfect Pearls spray, and then covering the colours in a rough random fashion with Black Soot ink). I splattered it with watered down gesso. I added a tiny snowman and trees die, and, picking up the colours showing through the black ink, I created very thin borders of blue and pink cs.

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Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Crafty Individuals
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - watercolour paper, gold shimmer and cream cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - SSS sentitment
Ink - various Distress Oxide inks, Distress Black Soo
Paper - mixed media cs; white, pink, and blue cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Perfect Pearls spray, unknown snowman die, narrow sentiment strip die, gesso, rectangle dies

3 comments:

  1. What a delightful image and so prettily coloured, many thanks for sharing with us at Stamping Sensations challenge. Would also fit our theme a thttps://www.welovestamping.co.uk/.

    B x

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  2. Such fabulous cards! Thanks so much for playing along at Inspired By! ~Laurel

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  3. Two very different creations today Susan, and the CI stamp is so prettily vintage looking and the colouring looks wonderful, and then your galaxy night sky is the perfect background to the white die cut snowman and trees silhouette and finished with a lovely black on white sentiment to go with it. x

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