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Monday, December 23, 2024

Christmas Girl

For all my promises last week about having posts each day for the past 7 days, the "To Do" list just got the best of me and, even though I've been very busy creating in the midst of the Christmas preparations, I didn't have time to sit down and write posts. But today, I finally finished the Progressive Challenge image from Moondrea Designs and I want to get her posted to the Challenge.

I colored with my Ohuhu markers, then added Stickles to the holly leaves, the berries, and the candle flame in the lantern. After it all dried, I cut the image with a Tonic Studios die, and decorated the corners with Fiskars and Uchida punches. I framed the image with a die cut rectangle of green CS (Spellbinders die.) The background dp is a scrap from the Christmas stash (probably DCWV) and the sentiment was printed and cut with another Tonic Studios die.

Challenges:

Lil Patch of ...

Hopefully, I'll have additional posts this week. We aren't celebrating our Christmas holiday until Saturday when my college-attending, granddaughter gets home for her Christmas holidays. Maybe I'll have posts all week long of Christmas cards I've made even though Christmas will be on Wednesday. You won't mind, will you? The Christmas holidays don't really end until the New Year, right?

Happy Crafting. NanaConnie

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Last Day of 30 Days of Holidays

Here it is, my final card for the 30 Days of Holidays at Beccy's Place. The last day theme is always "Do What You Love," kind of like Anything Goes but better because we get to use things we love. For me, there are so many things I love to put on Christmas cards, but I think snowmen have to be at the top of the list. Actually, if I could find a good reason, I'd do snowmen cards all year round. :-D

Today's card features one of Beccy's new snowmen, named Winston and released this year. I thought he'd look great dressed in a burgundy hat and scarf with gold fringe and earmuffs. I colored him with ProMarkers and added gold Stickles to the star. I cut the image with a Tonic Studios die, then trimmed the corners with a Fiskars punch.

I wanted the card to sparkle so I dug through my stash of glitter CS scraps and pieced together the background on the card. I love glitter and when it comes to Christmas cards, I always debate with myself about whether silver glitter or gold glitter is best. In this case, I was able to use mostly silver glitter but the star has gold sparkle, so a combination of them is the absolute best!

The image and the "Snowball Fight" sentiment were layered on, using a good amount of craft glue (which I've found is the most effective for attaching CS to glitter.) Even the stickiest of double sided tapes tends to come loose and peel off of glittered CS after just a short time so glue it is.

Challenges:

As You Like It

Di's Digi Designs

Jingle Bells (sparkle & colors)

My Time to Craft

Polkadoodles

Send a Smile ...

The Christmas season is really on top of us now but it's nice to have another 30 cards in my stash. Ok, maybe 25 instead of 30 since I did use Thanksgiving as the holiday on 4 or 5 of my cards this month. Still, my Christmas card stash is looking good this year because of all the other cards I've done between January and October. I still have colored Christmas images waiting to be made into cards so I'll have several additional posts throughout December.

In the meantime, Happy Crafting. NanaConnie

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Nutcracker Mouse

I've fallen in love with another artist who draws the most adorable critters! You can check them out on Etsy - Pawfect Art Creations. So far I have three different sets of the cutest little mice and today's card features a Nutcracker Mouse, complete with his uniform, his sword, and the most elegant hat.

All the images come pre-colored but this one I printed in grayscale, then colored it with Sanjoki alcohol markers, and a bit of gold Stickles on his hat emblem. I cut the image with a die from QuicKutz. The sentiment was printed and cut with an Avery Elle die. I used glittered CS for the card base and layered the image and the sentiment onto the card front. Not counting the coloring time, it took me less than 10 minutes to make the card.

Challenges:

12 Months...Christmas

A Perfect Time ...

That's all I have for today but I'll be back later this afternoon or maybe tomorrow with another one for Beccy's Place and the 30 Days of Holidays. Happy Crafting. NanaConnie

Friday, November 22, 2024

Letter "S" - 30 Days of Holidays

I think this is my favorite Beccy's Place image! At least I know that I've used it every Christmas season since I first bought the set, how many years ago? Too many to count. :-D It's the Winter Window and the sentiment is also from Beccy's.

For the letter "S" I have: Stripes, Sparkle, Satin ribbon, Sanjoki markers, Stones in the wall, Snow, Scraps, & Stickles.

In the past, I've colored the stone in red-orange shades to look more like brick, blue stones with dark accents, even brown stones with black accents but this time, I colored it with several different, light gray and blue gray markers to enhance the winter feel, and light brown-gray markers on the branch, all from Sanjoki. I added a few white highlights to the snow on the branch with a gel pen. I used a deep yellow marker on the candle and added Stickles to the candle flame so that it would sparkle.

The image was cut with a die from QuicKutz. The striped dp used for the background came from an old DCWV stack and it was a scrap in the basket. The satin ribbon was from my stash and I'm pretty sure it was from Really Reasonable Ribbon. It has a very nice, but rather subtle, sparkle in it. I used my bowmaker to get the double loop bow. I really do think ribbon and bows are my favorite embellies because they are so easy to add and work perfectly on nearly any card.