Snowflake Tree Decorations

Hi there :)

Monday is my DT day over at Make the Day Special Stamp Store and today I have been sharing these Snowflake tree decorations made using the MFT Pierced Snowflake dies....

I've been cranking these dies through my Big shot to create multi layers in brown and white card then finishing with a sticky back wood paper on one set and white glitter paper on the others. I love how the different materials give a totally different feel and theme.

 The greenery at the top is made using Under the Mistletoe dies from Wplus9 cut in two shades of green card, I trimmed the branches into smaller sections and added red liquid pearls for berries.

The glittery flakes just have a white bow and silver bells.... both sets make the softest tinkling when moved and I'm looking forward to hanging them on our tree :)

For more details you can visit my DT blog post here

    

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Garden Grown Wishes

Hi there :)
It's my DT day on the blog over at Make the Day Special blog and I've been arranging some potted plants using the Garden Grow stamp set from Altenew..... I was so pleased so see you can now buy coordinating dies so cutting out those intricate shapes is much easier :)

The plants are coloured with promarkers and copics but I was chuffed to find a way to use those small words and phrases in the set as a texty background for my little scene!!
I've used three shades of grey ink to stamp the words for an ombre effect and sponged the lightest grey ink to help define the edges of the masked area. The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts sentiment set that I think has been discontinued.

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Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x

Warm Woolly Wishes

Have you dug out your woolly hat and gloves yet???...

 I have, but only in stamp form as it's much too mild here still for the real thing :) 

For my DT blog post at Make the Day Special Stamp Store this week, I shared a winter's birthday card using a couple of stamp sets from Wplus9... Holiday Cheer and Background Builders: Knit..... they're perfect together :)

I love how the textured card adds to the 'knitted' effect and the stamping isn't perfect but that kinda adds to it too.... that's what I'm telling myself anyhow ;)

I used the outline of the hat and mitts on the same card and added some colour with the matching solid stamps and a small pattern from the knit background set. I kept the design simple so as not to cover too much of the knitted backdrop :)

Sentiment is from an Avery Elle and Lil'inkers stamp set, double stitched rectangle is from My Favourite Things :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Giving a Gnome a Home!!

Hi there :)

Does your home have a gnome?? Perhaps not... I must admit that we don't have any of the pint sized ornaments in the garden but I couldn't resist this cute set from MFT called You Gnome Me and all four of the little folk had to go on my card :)

I started by colouring the 'gift giving' gnome with pencils and trimming him out with scissors. To make him the focal point I stamped the rest of the gnomes on the Kraft card base in black ink and shaded them in a 'tone on tone' style using a brown and white pencil, this gives the gnomes some shape but keeps them in the background :)

For a sentiment I chose to use the Bella letters set from Mama Elephant so I could make my own... I thought this little guy looked like he was bearing gifts for a new home owner :)

                             

Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x

Ho Ho Ho!!

Hi there :)

I'm just popping by to tell you about this months challenge over at Make the Day Special Stamp Store. Yep it's the beginning of a new month and this is the last challenge of 2015 as we will be taking a break in December, it's a nice easy sketch for you and this is my very loose interpretation of it...

I have used an un-inked set by Avery Elle called North Pole... I do love this busy little Santa, he has a real purpose in his stride!! :)

I coloured him with markers and used his Santa hat minus the written phrase... I placed a white pom pom on the end instead :) I used the Ho Ho Ho hat for my sentiment.. selectively inking and embossing the phrase in sparkly black powder then using the matching dies to trim the words out :)

My circle of dots are created using a home-made stencil made with the bubbles from Swim Team elle-ments dies. I traced a light circle in pencil onto some cardstock as a guide for placing and cutting the dots.

I then simply applied two shades of light blue ink through the stencil onto my card front and adhered some sequins and spots of glitter glue to add that extra festive sparkle :)

We'd love you to play along with us, you can find more inspiration and details here :)

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x

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