Snow Fairy Christmas Card

Hi, I'm back with a card that features a character that I don't usually use in my cards. It's a fairy! These fairies are Mo Manning's illustrations and so, they must be beautiful! They don't look that the typical fairies with long flowy hair but a little mischievous rolling snow. Maybe that's why I like them. I chose one of the three fairies in the stamp set.

I'm not sure what colours a fairy would wear, so I chose a green hat and then orange for his clothes. So now, he resembles a carrot with purple wings. :D As it's a Christmas card, I want to have some sparkle on it. I was trying to fit a couple of silver hologram snowflakes on the image but somehow they didn't look right. I changed my mind after some time and die cut a couple of gold hologram snowflakes. They do fill in the empty space. The embossing on the green card base is a last minute decision. I like how this little detail makes the card look a little more interesting than when it was without embossing.

I'm entering this card in MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge 255:

Products I used in making this fairy Christmas card:
Penny Black Stamps Snow Fairies
My Favorite Things Die-namics Rounded Rectangle STAX
Simon Says Stamp Die RyLynn Snowflake
Simon Says Stamp Die Abby Snowflake
We R Memory Keepers Next Level Embossing Folders Geometric
Tsukineko VersaFine Ink Pad
Faber Castell Watercolour Pencils

Chrismas Card with Paris Skyline

This card is similar to the previous one except that I used another Miss Anya from the same stamp set  from The Greeting Farm. Here, Miss Anya is in Paris. I had a little trouble thinking of the colours to use on the skyline when I saw photos of some of the world's landmarks bathe in the colours of France, so I decided then and there to paint this skyline in the same colours.

Products I used in making this card:

The Greeting Farm Stamps Miss Anya Scarves
Simon Says Stamp Stamps Nativity
Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables
My Favorite Things Die-namics Paris Skyline
Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad
Faber Castell Watercolour Pencils
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads

Christmas Card with London Skyline

London would always have a special place in my heart. It's one of my favouritw cities in the world. On the card, I didn't use my usual go-to colours, that is, orange and dark blue but I think the colours do suit the scene. I love this Miss Anya from The Greetimg Farm. It was really lovely to colour her.

Products I used in making this card:

The Greeting Farm Stamps Miss Anya Scarves
Simon Says Stamp Stamps Nativity
Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables
My Favorite Things Die-namics London Skyline
Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad
Faber Castell Watercolour Pencils
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads

Winter Penguin in Central Park

This post is linked to a previous post on Lawn Fawn's Winter Penguin stamp set. Here is the link to that post.

Christmas Card using Inlaid Diecutting Technique

This post is linked to an earlier post that I created on inlaid diecutting. This is the link to that post.

Lawn Fawn Winter Penguin in 2 Different Scenes

Penguins are one of my favourite critters to pit on a card. Here, I stamped and coloured Lawn Fawn's Winter Penguin stamp image. I didn't want to colour them the usual colour, black, so I chose dark blue and purple.

I created two scenes. One is of the penguin skating in New York City with the city'so skyline in the background. I love it that this Christmas card is not in the traditional colours but in one of my favourite colours - pink!

The other one is of the penguin skating through a park. I enjoyed watercolouring the trees. I've leaened to take it very easy while colouring as it doesn't really matter if the end result is not as what has been expected. It's more important to chill and enjoy the colouring process as it's very relaxing.

Here's another look of the scene. I think I like the park scene better as it's more serene. It's so peaceful and that's how it should be like during Christmas as Christ is the Prince of Peace.

I'm entering both cards in the Lawnscaping Challenge No. 118: In With The Old.

Products I used to create both penguin cards:
Lawn Fawn Stamps Winter Penguin
Lawn Fawn Stamps Toboggan Together
Mama Elephant Stamps Jolly and Merry
Simon Says Stamp Stamps Nativity
Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables
My Favorite Things Die-namics New York Skyline
Taylored Expressions Dies Build a Scene - Central Park
Taylored Expressions Dies Build a Scene - Winter Trees
Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads
Faber Castell Watercolour Pencils

Trying out Inlaid Die Cutting

Hi, I've made 2 Christmas cards with the inlaid diecutting technique. I've seen some wonderful results on Instagram and decided to give it a go. It was rather fun!

I die cut the sentiments first on both cardstock. Then I stamped the grumplings images with Versa Fine ink and coloured them with my Faber Castell watercolour pencils. I don't use any water or blender liquids at all. I prefer it this way. Next, I watercoloured the words with distress inks. I used 4 recent colours and did not exactly planned where to put the colours. It was random and fun! After all colouring was completed, I adhered everything together on the card bases.

Here are the cards.

I'm entering both cards in the Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #12 and also Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Christmas. 

Products I used for creating both the clean and simple cards are:

Taylored Expressions Stamps Holiday Grumplings

My Favorite Things Die-namics Christmas Greetings

My Favorite Things Stitched Rounded Rectangle STAX

Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

Faber Castell Watercolour Pencils

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads

Tsukineko Versa Fine Onyx Black Ink Pad

Zig Wing of Stella Clear