Yellow and Grey - Christmas Elf

Good morning folks, I know it's February and I'm sharing a Christmas card ! but this is one of the ones I never got around to posting at Christmas, and I really do like it lol.

I used the MFT Santa's Elves, to stamp the images. Then I coloured them with Copic markers and cut them out with their matching dies.

For this little guy, I used a grey and mustard yellow colour scheme, and then used cardstock to match.

I used a MFT Zig Zag Stitched Circle die to cut a frame out of silver card, and then cut a circle window out of the yellow card. I backed this with some gold Christmas paper and a piece of snowy acetate.

I cut the yellow card down with a Stitched Rectangle die and put it onto a grey card blank.

Then I added the images with foam pads, stamped a sentiment from the set and used a Spellbinders corner die to add a little interest. Then I finished it off with a few silver sparkly enamel dots.

Hope you like it too, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

MFT Elves

Good morning all and Merry Christmas. I hope you have all had a lovely holiday, however you spend it.

Ours has been spent with family, and has been thoroughly enjoyed. We have spent too much, eaten too much, and some have definitely drank too much lol, but we have been together and happy, which to me is all that matters.

Today's card is one of a set that I made for the younger members of the family. They were all made using the same stamp and die sets, but all different. This one went to my great niece, I hope you like it too.

The cover up behind the elf is an MFT one, cut three times using different coloured card and paper and then pieced back together on a double sided adhesive sheet.

I used the MFT Santa's Elves stamp and die sets for the characters and coloured them all in with Copic Markers, Wink of Stella pens and a white gel pen.

Then I added a simple die-cut sentiment and some festive Candy to finish it off.

Hope you like it, take care and have a very good week.

See you soon, take care.

xxx

Santa's Elf

Happy Christmas Eve eve!

I made this card for my brother to give to Jen and Alan.

This lovely little elf is from a wonderful set by My Favorite Things called Santa's Elves. I decided to colour him in shades of green using Copic markers.

I cut two snow banks and added a little Christmas tree.  I placed a few presents underneath and some glitter to the branches.

I then added some glitter pen to the elves hat, the stocking and the presents, before adding them to a blue shimmery card.

The sentiment is from a set by Just Rite called Christmas Blessings.  I embossed this with white embossing powder by Simon Says Stamp.

I like how it turned out and hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx

Inlaid Elves

Good morning all, I hope your week is going well.

Today's cards were somewhat of an experiment, which turned out OK in the end. You will probably all know the lovely Jennifer McGuire, but I was copying one of her techniques for inlaid die cutting.

As I don't have any of the connected scene dies I had to combine what I did have. So I used the Santa's Elves set from MFT, along with a shape out of one of the Blueprints sets, to give me an arched window. 

Then I placed the elf die on the white card and ran it through the bigshot to cut it out, stopping where I wanted the feet to remain attached. 

Then I placed the arched die behind the elf and ran it through again to give me the shape. The only part that doesn't cut is the bottom where the elf is stood. So I just used my craft knife to cut along the bottom.

Then I stamped the elves using my Misti to ensure they were in the right place, then coloured them with Copic Markers. For the backgrounds I did some inky blending and stamping with Distress Inks and then laid the cut out pieces back in.

To finish them off I added the sentiments and a few stamped snowflakes and sequins.

Hope you like them, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Krumspring Presents - Naughty or Nice?

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is the first one I have made using a Krumspring stamp. I follow the lovely lady who designs these stamps on Instagram, and when she had a new release last month I bought this presents stamp, called Naughty or Nice to give it a try.

 Now I have to save my pennies so that I can buy some more soon as they are great, they stamp brilliantly and some of the other ones available look amazing. If you haven't heard of her then head here to Maria's website and shop and take a look for yourself.

For this card, I stamped the presents with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder. Then I coloured it with Copic Markers in some contemporary colours, as I did a second card with more traditional colours.

I cut the image out by hand and then found a piece of Christmas paper in the stash that complimented the colours. The little Elf holding the present is an MFT stamp from last year called Santa's Elves. 

I coloured him with matching colours and then cut him out with his coordinating die. 

After adding the sentiment I gave the presents and Elf a once over with Wink of Stella in Silver and Clear to give it all some sparkle.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you next week.

xxx

You're like no one elf!

 It's Christmas Eve - woo hoo!  And just when you thought you'd seen the last of them - here come the elves again! lol!

I had a couple of these little fellows left so decided to use them up on some simple cards.  One is for my eldest son and the other is for my brother from Mum.

The sentiment is made up using a couple of different stamp sets.  Using the wonderful MISTI made lining them up a doddle.  

I LOVE the MISTI!! 

Hope you like them.

Merry Christmas! Jude xx

More elves

Hello I'm Judy and I'm addicted to elves - lol!

I realised yesterday that all the cards I've made this week have had elves on them.  I think it's time I found some other stamp set to use :)  Until then you will have to put up with the elves!

This one combines the MFT set with one from Lawn Fawn, called Trim the Tree, and a background die from Marianne.

I overfilled the tree so that it looks like this little elf has no where to put his decoration. 

While this little chap is waiting to start adding the gifts underneath!  In my head I had a whole story to go with this scene lol :)

I used a sentiment from the Toboggan Together set to finish off.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Elf with Christmas tree

Hello!

I'm back with another card using Santa's Elves by My Favourite Things.

This time I stood my little elf in a Christmas scene. What do you think?

Only after I'd taken the photographs did I realise I forgot to colour the hair, lol! I've corrected it now and also added a little more colour to his skin.

Like my previous card, I added glossy accents to the eyes, bell and bauble. The tree looked a little bare so I also put glossy accents on the star.  I then tried to add some tinsel but it didn't turn out quite as I expected.  I don't think I'll try liquid pearls again.

I will make another version of this, and correct some of the mistakes I made on this one. Hopefully it will turn out much better ;)

TTFN Jude xx