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

Finally, a Post from Me!

It's been ages since I posted.  I've had the horrible flu bug that's going around this winter (even though I had the flu shot in the autumn - but they say it doesn't have this year's variant in it!).  I'm much better but have what my doctor calls the post-viral cough that can last for a few weeks.  So annoying!

But I've got my energy back for making cards and posting so here are a couple.

Cardz 4 Guyz wants a masculine card with a Christmas critter.

My nephew has a ginger cat called Roger.  Roger is a bit skittish and wide-eyed like this image so I'm saving this for my nephew's Christmas card.  Stamped and watercoloured, trimmed with a wonky stitched rectangle, bordered in black, and mounted on kraft.  The beard and Santa hat are embellished with fun flock.

 

Double D wants a birthday card and my cousin's birthday is coming up.

 

I started by putting my wildflower stamp in my MISTI and inking it up with Tombow markers, stamping on the centre of a hammered cs cardbase, re-inking and re-stamping until I was happy with the results.  I then inked up the stamp with Versamark, re-stamped, and added clear embossing powder.

 

I took another piece of hammered cs and cut a piece of masking paper the same size as the hammered cs.  I die cut a rectangle out of the centre.  Then inked up the background stamp with Bundled Sage and Speckled Egg and stamped over the masking paper.  I then die cut a smaller rectangle out of the centre of the stamped section, leaving a stamped frame.  Using dimensional tape, I layered the frame over the wildflower.  Finished by adding a sentiment die cut with a stitched banner.

  

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Tim Holtz Christmas snarky cat and sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, kraft and black cs
Size - A2
Accessories - MFT wonky stitched rectangle die, watercolour paints, fun flock

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Magenta wildflower, Penny Black Enlightened background stamp, Memory Box sentiment
Ink - Distress Speckled Egg and Bundled Sage, Versamark
Paper - white hammered cs
Size - 6x4.25" 
Accessories - Tombow markers, masking paper, Spellbinders rectangle dies, clear embossing powder, stitched sentiment banner die

White Branches

My favourite colour combination is white and blue so when I saw the new Peace on Earth mood board, I was immediately drawn to the top right hand image.  It inspired this card:

I sponged two shades of blue Distress inks for the background.  Then made sure it was dry as I wanted to heat emboss on it.  I was extra careful to cover it all with my embossing buddy, and then stamped and heat embossed the branches and sentiment in white.  I created a frame for it with two stitched rectangle dies, cutting it twice for more dimension.  Assembled everything and I was done.

Here's the Peace on Earth mood board.  Check out what else the Design Team came up with and then we'd love to have you make a card and link it up.

I'm also linking it up at Colorful Options "Blue and White".

Supplies:
Stamps - Magenta branches, Rosie's Roadshow sentiment
Ink - Distress Salted Ocean and Broken China, ColorBox white
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Wow Bright White embossing powder, Lil Inker stitched rectangle dies

Final Christmas Card Post for 2025!

I can't believe it's the end of 2025 already!  That was one fast year!

To finish off with a couple of Christmas cards.  The first is for Inkspirational "Cold" and Addicted to CAS "Christmas".

I've been making some backgrounds lately using the cling wrap technique (see this SCS tutorial). For this one I used Magical Powders (shimmery powdered dye based pigments) sprinkled and spritzed with water on black mixed media cs with cling wrap scrunched up on it to create my background. Love the sparkle and the texture I got.

I topped it with a die cut village and a sentiment and added the panel to a slimline card base.  That sky looks very cold and icy to me, and having the houses and landscape all in white makes them look like they are covered in snow!

For 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Use a Previous 2025 Technique", I chose the one from May "Use Die Cuts or Punches" and got out my old Martha Stewart pine branch punch and some square dies.  It's also going to the Snippets challenge as it used up lots of bits of green cs and dp for the wreath, a scrap of dp for the background, and scraps of green and red cs for the bordering layers. 

I made a thin circle out of scrap green cs using two circle dies, then punched many little pine branches out of scraps of dp (mostly pieces that had images of grass or leaves on them).  I glued them onto the die cut circle, added it to the background square of dp, and bordered with squares of red and green cs.  Finished with a small stamped sentiment and red gemstones for berries.  It's not the quickest card to make but I love the results.

     

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white and black cs
Size - 7x3.75"
Accessories - aqua Magicals, village die cut

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - SSS sentiment
Ink - Memento Rhubarb Stalk
Paper - scraps of various dp; chalk, red, and green cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Martha Stewart pine branch punch, Spellbinders circle and square dies, red gems

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