Hello and welcome. This week’s theme challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is polar bears. I saw a really cute shaped card on Kristi's blog and was inspired to make my own polar bear version using punch art… Kristi shared a link to Treasure Box Designs and I just love their adorable paper pieced animals. … Continue reading Punch art polar bear …
Category: Handmade
Watercolour snowflakes in shades of blue …
Hello and welcome. Myrna, our hostess for February at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, has set a colour challenge to use shades of blue … I made my own background paper by stamping snowflakes from the Snow Swirled stamp set by Stampin’ Up in a random pattern in versamark ink onto watercolour paper. I covered this… Continue reading Watercolour snowflakes in shades of blue …
Paper piecing technique Christmas card …
Hello and welcome. There’s a technique challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown this week – paper piecing. I used several Stampin’ Up Christmas dsp scraps to make this shaker card … This was a great chance to ink up my Julie Nutting doll stamp that my friend bought for me. I stamped the image several… Continue reading Paper piecing technique Christmas card …
Cute fairy Christmas …
There is the cutest challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown this week – fairies! I coloured my little fairy with coloured pencils... The background was stamped using smoky slate and crumb cake ink by Stampin’ Up… I layered the image on silver mirri board and popped it up with stampin’ dimensionals… One of the lasting… Continue reading Cute fairy Christmas …
