Tree Gnome

Edited to add:  This post is a day late due to me not being able to work out time zones correctly!  Apologies to the team at Tic Tac Toe! 

Hi and welcome. I am thrilled to be guesting with the team at Tic Tac Toe this week after winning a challenge there a wee while ago.

 

I chose trees, colouring and faux stitching to come up with this card using an adorable image from Stamping Bella.

I coloured the image then masked around it to create the sky and grass.  I then cut it down leaving the leaves sticking out the side.  I carefully die-cut the edges with a stitching die and mounted it onto a green panel die-cut with the same stitching die.

I then added a sentiment and called it done.  

Thanks so much to the team at Tic Tac Toe for inviting me.

Products used:

Stamps:  Gnome in a Tree (Stamping Bella), Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Amalgam (Gina K), Forest Glades (Altenew), Tumbled Glass Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White, X-Press It, Lush Green Collection (Memory Box)

Dies:  Basic Stitch Lines (MFT)

Accessories:  Copics, White Gel Pen, Micro Cloud Edges Stencil (MFT)

Cheers

Karren

Slothmas

Hi!  I'm here with my card using the latest sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, where our hostess this week is Amy O'Neill.  I added to my meagre Christmas card stash with this card. 

I coloured up this cute Stamping Bella sloth and fussy-cut him out.  To prepare the card base, I die-cut various colours of green cardstock with a stitched die.  I also cut some thin black strips.  The sentiment was stamped onto the centre panel before they were all adhered onto the card base.

Finally, I added the sloth on his wreath and called it done.

Thanks so much for visiting.  I hope you'll check out the wonderful cards made by the rest of the design team.

I am adding this card to Tic-Tac-Toe (black, stripes, wreath) and the Anything Goes challenge at Happy Little Stampers Christmas challenge

Products used:

Stamps:  Sloth on a Wreath, Merry Slothmas (Stamping Bella)

Ink:  Amalgam, Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock:  White, X-Press It, Simply Chartreuse (PTI), Green Apple (SSS), Jellybean Green (MFT)

Dies:  Blueprints 1, Blueprints 2 (MFT)

Accessories:  Copics

Cheers

Karren

Edited to Add:  This card got a shout-out at Tic-Tac-Toe

Audrey

Welcome!  It's time for another sketch from the team at Freshly Made Sketches and this week our hostess is Linda Callahan.

I colored!  After looking at my little chef from last week which was colored an age ago, I decided I wanted to try some coloring again.  So this weekend, I sat down with the intention of coloring something simple and this was the result.

My coloring skills are definitely rusty and I deliberately chose something that would be easy to color but overall, I'm happy with the result.  I hope it's opened the door to more coloring.

The card is pretty self-explanatory.  The striped pattern and Audrey are popped up on foam tape and the sentiment (which I love!) is stamped onto the card base.  I finished with some baker's twine and some raindrops.

Thanks for visiting.  I hope you'll head over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Uptown Girl Audrey Loves Makeup (Stamping Bella)
Ink:  Amalgam, Obsidian
Cardstock:  White, X-Press It, Black & White Stripes (MFT)
Accessories:  Copics, Raindrops (PTI), Baker's Twine

Cheers
Karren