Snowman Wearing Red

Peace on Earth's new mood board has four images of snowmen, each wearing a different colour.  I chose the top right hand image as I have a stamp of snowman wearing a Santa hat and scarf, and carrying a holly wreath (and there's holly in the mood board image).

Stamped, coloured with colour pencils, bordered with red, Fun Flock put on the Santa hat brim and pom pom, and glitter put on the snowflakes.

Here's the mood board for inspiration, and there's also more cards by members of our Design Team over at Peace on Earth to inspire you.

Please come and join us!

I'm also linking this card up over at The 12 Months of Christmas "Snow People" challenge.

Supplies:
Stamps - Northwoods snowman, Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white linen cs, red cs, bristol cs for the focal image
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Fun Flock, clear glitter, fun foam

Santa on the Roof and Snowman with Dog

Two mini slimline cards today, both on coloured cardbases.  I enjoy making Christmas cards between Christmas and New Year as I'm still feeling in the Christmas mood and I always have lots of free time.  

So here's one for Christmas Cards All Year Round "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and Double D "Santa and / or Snowman".  And for the NBUS Challenge (I've never inked up this stamp before and I've had it for quite a while).  I'm also entering it in : Sweet Stampin' "Christmas", The Twelve Months of Christmas "Anything Goes Christmas", and The Christmas Kickstart Challenge "If It's Christmassy, Link It Up".

I used a Tim Holtz stamp I've had for ages and never inked up. Simply stamped and watercoloured and mounted on a blue shimmer card base.

For the Penny Black Saturday Challenge "Snow or Snowmen", I got out a Penny Black stamp I haven't used for ages.  It's also for Cardz4Guyz "Christmas Critters".

Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils, trimmed and added to a tan card base, and embellished with a Gelly Roll Stardust pen on the snowflakes.

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Tim Holtz
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, blue shimmer cs
Size - 6x3.25"
Accessories - watercolour paints

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - off white and tan cs
Size - 6x3.25"
Accessories - coloured pencils, Gelly Roll Stardust pen

Painting on Coloured Cardstock

The Group of Cardmakers is trying painting on coloured cardstock.  We originally intended to use acrylic paints but I ended up using gouache.  I did one on kraft cs and one on blue cs.

I trimmed both painted images with pierced dot rectangle dies.  The kraft one is just on a white cardbase, with some white splattering (I used acrylic paint for the splattering) and a sentiment on a white strip (that happily covers up a bit of messy painting).  The blue one has a bit of white splattering and is layered on a white panel with a green sentiment, and then on a green card base.

Check out what the rest of the Group of Cardmakers and, if you're so inclined, link up a card of your own.

I'm also linking up the first card over at We Love Stamping "Red and Green" and Colorful Options "Red, White, and Green".  And the second card goes to Double D "Santa and / or Snowman".

  

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black robin, ? snowman
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white, kraft, blue, and dark green cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Spellbinders pierced dot rectangle dies, gouache paints, white acrylic paint

Snowman in Joy

The new Peace on Earth mood board consists of four images of snowmen, all wearing scarves and hats.  I pulled out an old snowman stamp that would fit inside the letter "o" of my large "Joy" die.  I also wanted to use some dp as a background - I'm on a mission to try and use dp on at least two cards a month!  I have to make a dent in my stash!!

I stamped the snowman and sentiment in grey ink and did a bit of colouring with coloured pencils.  The snowman stamp includes some snowflakes around the snowman but I needed to add a bit more snow to fill in the circle so I used an old peg stamp of random dots.

I die cut the "Joy" once out of matte silver cs and once out of scrap cs and glued the two together.  I trimmed the snowman panel to fit behind the "o".  Then added the whole thing to the snowy dp background.  I went over all the snowflakes and dots with a Clear Star gelly roll pen and added some fun flock to the hat brim, pompom, and mitts' cuffs.

There's lots of other ideas from the rest of our Peace on Earth Design Team.  We'd love to see if our mood board inspires you or if you just want to do an "anything Christmas" card.

I'm also linking this card up with the Neglected Stuff Challenge as the snowman stamp is one of my very oldest stamps and hasn't been inked up for a long time.

Supplies:
Stamps - Old Island Stamp Co. snowman, Rubber Soul sentiment, Rubber Stamp Tapestry dots
Ink - Versafine Clair Morning Mist
Paper - white and matte silver cs, red dp
Size - 6x4.25"
Accessories - Penny Black "Joy" die,

Easter Bunny with Chicks, and a Snowman with Pressure

For Stamping Sensations (Birds, Animals), ATCAS (Bunny), Festive Friday (Easter - I picked yellow, bunny, and Easter sentiment from the list of options), Shopping Our Stash (rabbit or chick), and Double D (Easter):

Stamped, watercoloured, trimmed with a stitched rectangle. I thought of doing the chicks' little sweaters and the ball of yarn in various colours but I'm going to send it to my sister and her favourite colour (like mine) is blue, and keeping it to blue reflects the colours in the Double D mood board (see below).

I've been away visiting family so didn't get any Christmas cards made for two weeks, so now I'm back, I'm getting some quick ones made to keep up with my goal of 8-10 a month.  Did this one for Can You Handle the Pressure "Dry Embossing and Your Favourite Colour" (and as I said above, blue is my favourite colour).

I used a narrow snowflakes embossing folder on the top and bottom of a mini slimline card base.  I stamped the image in blue, trimmed the panel, ran the ink pad around the edges, and popped it up on fun foam.

 

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - House Mouse "Will Knit for Friends", SU sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - watercolour paper, off white and blue cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Local King
Ink - Distress Faded Jeans
Paper - white cs
Size - 6x4.25"
Accessories - narrow snowflakes embossing folder, fun foam

Fussy Cut Snowman / Sprig of Mistletoe

52 Christmas Card Throwdown wants to see Fussy Cutting.  I fussy cut my favourite new snowman stamp.

I created the background by spritzing a panel of watercolour paper till quite wet, then dropping in various blue watercolour paints and spritzing some more to let them run together. When dry I stamped the pine branches at the top in green and the snowman in black. I stamped the snowman again on white cs, watercoloured him, and fussy cut him (except for his twig arms) and the snowy ground. The sentiment is die cut. I used white watercolour paint to splatter some snow, but it came out very faint so definitely not the best medium for splattered snow.

Christmas Cards All Year Round wants us to be inspired by a phrase or a word in the song The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire).  I was inspired by "some mistletoe helps to make the season bright".

I had great fun playing with a lot of mixed media products (quite out of my comfort zone) to create some backgrounds using some of the techniques in Jennifer McGuire's video "Background Magic".

On a large piece of heavy mixed media cs, I brayered different shades of blue ink and sprayed with some mica spray, stamped with a snowflakes background stamp in darker blue, stamped a few bits of tiny stars in gold, and stencilled some larger stars and snowflakes with grit paste. Then trimmed the panel into a few different pieces and used one of the pieces for this background.

I added a Lavinia word sticker (Mistletoe) and a mistletoe die cut (cut twice and glued together for more dimension. Then used my Liquid Pearls on the berries of the mistletoe.

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Tim Holtz Mr. Frostie, unknown pine branch stamps
Ink - various Distress green inks
Paper - watercolour paper, white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Essentials by Ellen merry die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Mama Elephant sentiment, unknown tiny star stamp, unknown snowflake background stamp
Ink - various green and blue Distress inks, Ranger Archival Cobalt, Delicata gold
Paper - white and mixed media cs
Size - A2
Accessories - mistletoe die, white Liquid Pearls, Lavinia mistletoe sticker

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.

    

 

 

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

Snowman in the Woods

Peace on Earth has a mood board full of snowmen.  I was inspired by the top hat and the red and black scarf in the top right image, and by the trees in the background of the bottom left image.

The snowman is stamped, coloured with Tombow markers, fussy cut, and glued onto the background which was created by using a stencil (more accurately, I should say a tree mask) and Brushos.  I added a red die cut sentiment.

We'd love to have you join us at Peace on Earth, either inspired by our mood board to make a card with a snowman on it or with an "anything Christmas" card.

Supplies:
Stamps - Inkadinkado snowman
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - mixed media cs, white and off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Tombow marker, blue brushos, tree stencil / mask, joyful die

Scandinavian Christmas and Simple Snowman

52 Christmas Card Throwdown wants us to pick one of their theme challenges from the past year.  I chose May's Scandinavian / Hygge challenge for this card.

I just love making cards with this Tim Holtz Nordic Winter die - probably because I love doing jigsaw puzzles!  

I cut the die out of navy cs first, trimmed it a bit, and glued it down on my card base. Then I cut it several more times out of various colours of shimmer cs. I then had a lot of fun gluing in different coloured pieces into the navy panel. I bordered it with a white die cut frame.  I like to leave it without a sentiment on the front as it's such a busy focal panel.

So after that very busy card, I needed to do something very plain.  For Addicted to CAS (Code Word: BRRR!), Simply CAS (Anything Goes), and My Time to Craft (Something Snow-related).

Stamped in a metallic blue ink and heat embossed, then trimmed and popped up on fun foam on a metallic blue shimmer card card base.

 
      

   
Merry Christmas to all my followers!

Supplies for card 1:
Paper - white and navy cs; copper, white, brown, blue, light green, and red shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Tim Holtz Nordic Winter die, Impression Obsession frame die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Local King Rubber Stamp Co.
Ink - Encore Metallic Blue
Paper - white cs, blue shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing powder, fun foam
 

Snowman for Peace on Earth

When I saw the top right hand image on the Peace on Earth mood board (see below), I immediately thought of my new Tim Holtz snowman stamp and used it to make this card.

I stamped the snowman, pine branches, and sentiment and heat embossed them all.  Then painted the snowman and background with watercolour paints.  I stamped some pale shrubs either side of the snowman.  I used a white Posca paint pen to add snow to the pine branches, and then die cut a little red bird to sit on the branches.  For the falling snow, I sprinkled chunky embossing enamel over the piece and heated it from underneath to prevent it blowing away.

We'd love to have you join us at Peace on Earth.  Here's our mood board in case it inspires you - if not, just enter an "anything Christmas" card instead.

 

                                                                                                             

Supplies:
Stamps - Tim Holtz snowman, various branch stamps, Hero Arts sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, ColorBox Evergreen
Paper - mixed media, chalk cs, scrap of red cs
Size - 6x4.25"
Accessories - watercolour paints, white Posca paint pen, Memory Box bird die, Stampendous Chunky White Embossing Enamel