Another sketch for you today from Hand Stamped Sentiments - SC304
I chose to use some of these lovely Festive Chalkboard papers from Craftwork Cards - I love the image of the robin on top of all those signposts. I used some Stampin Up Real Red cardstock for the base and a Stampin Up Stitched Framelit for the circle. The reindeer was stamped in Early Espresso with some red sponging around the edges. He has been given a bit of glimmer with a Spectrum Noir sparkle pen. I'm not sure what set he is from - its a lovely winter wonderland set with images of reindeer, trees and animals but I can't remember where from and I can't find it in my searches on the internet :(
I added a strip of some different papers from this Festive Chalkboard set and the sentiment is from Kaisercraft Wonderland. I added some stitching with a white gel pen round the edges.
So who is getting excited now for Christmas - have you done all your shopping and preparations? I've made my Christmas pudding and mincemeat and it's all maturing nicely. Christmas decorations in the house will probably go up next weekend. This is my first year of having no children at home to help me as they've all grown up and have homes of their own and I'm feeling quite nostalgic.
I found a different style of card on my travels round blogland and You Tube. It seems this style of card was popular a few years ago - so I thought I'd have another go at trying it out and I love it - I've done a few so far with different themes. I think it's known as an envelope card but I'm not sure.
I've done mine as Christmas cards as Christmas is on my mind at the moment and it's my most favourite type of card to make.
The papers I've used for my card are from Marianne Designs called Artic Winter - probably a few years old now. The Reindeer is from Stampin Up' Merry Patterns - now retired. I sponged the edges of the Very Vanilla cardstock with More Mustard (an old SU colour) and Early Espresso to give it a soft vintage look. I stamped the deer in Early Espresso and then coloured in his sweater with More Mustard and Night of Navy marker pens and then added some glitter.
The little snowflake was made using SU Seasonal Thinlets and the dazzling embellishments in that gorgeous gold are non SU. The Merry Christmas sentiment is also from an old Set and I've added a touch of More Mustard twine.
I'm adding this into the challenge over at Cards In Envy - they ask for your favourite Holiday cards - in the UK we don't know Christmas as the holidays and Hallowe'en is not considered a holiday over here and we don't have Thanksgiving - holidays to us are vacations to the US.
Here's another similar card but this was done with one of my favourite retired SU Sets for Christmas, Winter Post. I sponged the background and did some reflection inking for the trees from Winter Woods and the skaters. The papers are Artic Winter again and this time a slightly larger snowflake. I can see I will be making a few more of these type of cards.
