Polka Dot Orchard ~ Petals for the Pittman's ~ Merry Christmas

Hey there crafty friends!

I'm back with another wonderful Christmas card... I think I'm a little obsessed this year!! Lol... but I'm pretty happy with the stack of Christmas cards I have in my stash! I can't believe that I'm actually ahead *knock on wood*... I don't want to jinx my progress!!

Today's card is using one of the fabulous digi images available in the Petals For The Pittman's Set One. If you're not familiar with the fundraiser going on right now, I invite you to check out the Polka Dot Orchard blog... there's lots of information there, as well as the link to play along with the Linky Party!  Just create something with a floral theme and link up for your chance to win one of the many prizes that have been donated for this wonderful cause! 

But hurry... time is running out!!

I have a serious love of poinsettias!! I particularly love the pink and white ones... they are so beautiful! I knew when I saw the poinsettia in the Petals For The Pittman's Set One, that I just had to make a card using this set!! It was such a fun flower to color too. I started by resizing and combining three of the poinsettias in a Word Document. I also inserted and resized the sentiment from the Magic of Christmas digi set. I printed off my images and got to coloring. I used the following Copic markers ~ R0000, R81, R85, YG03, YG11, YG63, Y13, Y15, and Y35.

I also added some Sakura clear gelly roll pen to the center of the flowers for a little bit of glittery goodness! I hope you can see some of the shine in this picture.

Once my flowers were all done, I decided not to just die cut them with a stitched rectangle die which was my original plan. I couldn't cut into all those pretty leaves that I just colored! So, instead I laid down my die and traced around it with a pencil and then I fussy cut it. Turns out it was a little too big! LOL So, I used a ruler and trimmed it down some more being sure to cut around the leaves. I was planning on leaving it to where my card base could be 4-3/4 x 6" but I don't actually have any 12 x 12 card stock left in my stash to make that size of a card. I probably could have pieced together a card but decided against it and just downsized my card to an A2 size with the leaves sticking out on the edges. I do have a few extra large envelopes so I can still make this work... just as a side note, this is one of those cards that I would hand deliver or send in a package with gifts. No plans to pay extra on postage for this one! I mat my focal piece with True Black card stock and then set it aside. I adhered a 4-1/4 x 5-1/2" piece of Plaid Patterns Merry & Bright patterned paper by My Favorite Things to a white card base. I then popped up my focal piece using foam tape. To finish off my card I added a few black enamel dots. Done and I am loving it!! I sure hope you like it too!

Thanks so much for checking out my blog post!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs,

Crystal

Power Poppy ~ Just One More Christmas Card

Hello! I'm sharing just one more Christmas card today for the CASology challenge - Cue Card: Holly.

I recently got my hands on some Power Poppy stamps and this holly from the Holly Golightly stamp set just had to get inked up!

I wanted to keep the card very CAS so I simply stamped the holly branch and sentiment in the upper center portion of the card front using Memento tuxedo black ink.

I then colored the holly branch using the following Copic markers:

R000, R14, R29, G24, G29, G46, YG63, YG67

I die cut the card front using a Nested Rounded Corner Rectangle Small Stitch die from Rubbernecker Stamps and adhered it to a white card base.

There's still a few days to play along with the CASology challenge. I encourage you to check it out!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs!

Crystal

Scrapping for Less ~ Lawn Fawn ~ Merry Little Christmas!

Hello! Today I'm sharing a bunch of super cute cards using Lawn Fawn's Say What? Christmas Critters along with a few other Lawn Fawn products. Let's have a look, shall we?

I really wanted to make a card that would showcase the sweet critters included in the stamp set but I also wanted to play with the Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow Christmas papers. I pulled out my collage die and started die cutting the papers. I went a little crazy... I ended up with more than enough pieces to make 5 cards.

Now it was time for assembling the card bases. I chose coordinating card stock to mat each collage. I adhered the outside piece and then adhered each stitched piece. Once all of those were done, I adhered each one to a white card base.

Time for the fun! I stamped each of the little critters and the sentiments in the word bubbles several times on white card stock with Memento tuxedo black ink and started coloring with my Copic markers. I chose colors to match the fun rainbow colors in the papers.

Penguin ~ N1, N3, N5, N7, YR14, YR16, R24, R27.

Deer ~ E23, E25, E51, E53, E31, E34, W4.

Llama ~ W00, W1, W3, E41, E51, BG13, BG32.

Unicorn ~ YR16, R27, YG05, Y15, B00, BG32, R00, E0000, BV000, BV04, W4.

I then decided the little critters needed some trees behind them, so I grabbed the Lawn Fawn Winter Skies stamp set and stamped the trees several times on white card stock with Memento tuxedo black ink and also colored them in with Copic markers. I used ~ YG03, YG17, YG23, E57. I played around with the shading on the trees alternating the darker to lighter colors to give the trees some interest rather than make them all the same.

All that was left to do was assemble the cute critter scene on the cards. I decided to use the main sentiment to ground the scene so I die cut the banners from coordinating card stock using a banner die and stamped the sentiment using VersaMark ink and heat embossing a fine white embossing powder. I popped the banners up on the card with foam tape and then adhered the trees with a liquid glue. I alternated popping up the critters on the first four cards coordinating them to the particular sentiment. For example, I popped up the llama on the card with the 'fa-la-la llama' sentiment. On my last card I adhered several trees in the background and then popped up all of the critters having them 'sit' on the banner.

This is such a fun set to play with!! I loved it so much that I also made some tags!! 

I kept the design very simple. 

I die cut the bases of the tags from the Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow Christmas papers. 

I die cut the frames of the tags from white card stock.  I had some critters and sentiment bubbles left over from the cards that I had made so I just used those for these tags.

 I did change up four of them by adding the sentiment to a white base that I had die cut with the other bubble die in the coordinating Say What Gift Tags die set. To finish these tags off, I added some baker's twine from my stash. So cute! And quick!

Now, be sure to go to the shop and sign up on the waitlist for this fantastic stamp set!! You can do that... here!!

Thank you friends for checking out my blog post!

See ya next time.

Inky Hugs!

~ Crystal

It's All About Christmas at Scrapping For Less

Merry Christmas! I'm sharing a sweet Christmas card for Scrapping for Less today.

You may have already seen the pictures above on the SFL blog today. I have a few more pictures to share. I just love when a card design comes together like this one did!

I just knew I had to use this Shut the Front Door die for this card. It fit perfectly with the beautiful Cursive Merry Christmas word die from Gina Marie Designs. I started by stamping the little snowflakes from Lawn Fawn's Beary Happy Holidays in white ink all over the light blue card stock. I set that aside to dry. I wanted to make the door look somewhat real so I grabbed my leftovers papers from the November Sending Thanks Collection ~ My Mind's Eye Woodgrain papers and die cut the door, the steps and the door handle. I then die cut the wreath using leftover card stock from the October Merry & Bright Collection <--- there's still a couple kits in stock!

For the inside of the door, I cut a 2" x 3-1/8" piece of thin white card stock and used some more scraps of paper... again the woodgrain one and I also used the Christmas music paper from the I Love Christmas paper pack by Echo Park. I layered those patterned papers on top of the white card stock and then trimmed the edges. I inked up the little penguin from Lawn Fawn's Here We Go A-Waddling with Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored him in with copic markers. I fussy cut him out and adhered him inside the door. Now the fun part, adhering all the layers. Once that was done, I layered the entire panel to a white card base.

Here's a close-up picture showing the snowflakes in the background and the glittery goodness I added to the wreath using a clear wink of stella pen. I really had fun making this card! 

Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas!

If you haven't already, be sure to check out the Scrapping for Less blog today... the whole design team is sharing their wonderful creations all together!

Thanks for stopping by!

See ya next time.

~ Crystal