The dies have it

Good morning all, today's card is all about the die cuts. 

I must admit I am loving using the Marianne scene dies at the minute, but wanted to do something a little different to the others I have made. 

So this time I used the tree scene die and teamed it with the Snowdog die from Crafters Companion. 

I used paper from the November Simon Says Stamp kit, and teamed it with silver and white card. 

The large scalloped circle is cut with a Sizzix die and the centre circle with a Spellbinders die. 

Then the flower shape behind the sentiment, the curve under the trees and the tiny stars are all Dienamics Blueprints dies. 

It's a lot but I do think they all work together, and I couldn't resist going over everything with my Wink of Stella pens. It's just a shame the sparkle doesn't really show up on the photo's. 

Anyway that's all today. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

The Snowman and the Snowdog

Good morning all and happy Saturday. Have you recovered from all of the festivities yet? I do hope so and that you are looking forward to a nice crafty weekend.

 

I am going to try and get back in the craft room today as I haven't been near since Christmas Eve, but I will have to do some tidying up first and that's what I'm avoiding lol.

 

Anyway another Christmas card today, this time it's the one I made for Mum and Dad to send to our brother John.

 

 

The Snowman and the Snowdog are cut using dies from Crafters Companion and then coloured with Promarkers.

 

 

They are very easy to do as you just colour through the holes in the dies.

 

 

I used some co-ordinating Snowman paper for the background with some Centura Pearl white card which I embossed with the snowflake die.

 

 

I finished the card with a computer made sentiment cut with a Spellbinders labels die.

 

 

Hope you like it, thanks for stopping by again, see you soon.

 

xxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nicki and the Snowdog

Good morning all, hopefully by the time you read this I shall be tucked up in a nice cosy bed in the holiday cottage we have rented for the week lol. I am scheduling a few posts for this week as we don't know what the Internet reception will be like where we are going. That makes it sound like the back of beyond lol, when reality it is only southern Scotland. We are off to a little place called Southerness which sits in the Dumfries and Galloway area. We haven't been here before but do know the surrounding area quite well. Anyway if we get good signal we shall pop on and load some pics etc.

 

I'm afraid it's all Christmas cards from me at the moment, as we don't have any family birthdays, from middle of September until beginning of December it's a great time to concentrate on the Christmas cards.

 

Today's card, is using the lovely Nicki digi stamp from Saturated Canary. I have coloured her with chalks and flex markers! I know a right combination but I only used the pens for her skin lol. It's the first time I've coloured an image with chalks and I think it turned out OK for a beginner ;o)) I then set it with Iridescent Spray and Sparkle.

  

I have teamed Nicki with The Snowdog from Crafters Companion. He should be with The Snowman, (remember the film???) but I thought he was so cute he could be used with lots of different images.

 

I cut him out of white card stock and sat him with Nicki on to a piece of Centura Pearl card which I embossed with the Snowflake embossing folder. I cut this in to a curve and sat it on top of a coordinating piece of paper from the Snowman range.

 

I added a bow using Teal satin ribbon and a snowflake charm and then finished the card with a stamped sentiment, using light blue pigment ink and clear embossing powder.

 

Hope you like it. Take care and I'll see you soon.

 

xxx