Snowmen with beanies - a set of cards

Brr, it's cold outside! Even snowmen need warm beanies! So, more cards this way comes. These are made using a Stampers Anonymous stamp set as well as some craft felt. 

I made a set of these cards alternating the background color and matched that with the bobble on the beanie. Well, I matched in two cases out of three - the pink and the green. However, I used an icy blue for the purple one. The snowman is built using both the little snowman and the head in the set - something I saw online and wanted to try out as I find the big headed snowman endearing. Instead of the top hat he has on the set I cut three beanies out of craft felt and decorated those with small pompoms.

The background of the cards are done using Distress Inks, the coloring of the snowmen with brush-tip markers.

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a splendid Wednesday!

Materials: Stampers Anonymous, Ranger, Korttipaja, Sinelli

Wreath card - Gelli Arts

Heippa! It's the final posts of 2024 this week! First up is this wreath card I made for Gelli Arts. If you want to see how I made it, you can see the Reel here (link) on my Instagram.

I used two green PaperArtsy paints to create the card. I first spread a layer of spruce green paint to my Gelli Arts plate and patterned the layer using a self carved holly leaf stamp. After letting that layer dry I added some red berries in the mix using a Q-tip. Again, a bit of drying and then I lifted the paint using another shade of green. To finish the card, I added some doodles, sentiment sticker and a couple of sequins.

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a jolly Tuesday!

Materials: Gelli Arts, PaperArtsy, Sinelli, Posca

Vintage Wishes - a pair of cards

Moikka moi! It's again Friday and that means a new process video on my YouTube channel! This time I'm making some Holiday cards using old cards as my focal points. Want to watch me create the pair? Then please head over to my YouTube channel and check out this video (link) uploaded there. 

The idea behind this pair was to re-use or re-purpose in a way some old received Christmas cards. Or rather. it was to give you the spark to do so as I actually needed to buy these cards and then cut them apart! I used Distress Inks to make the backgrounds for the characters and added some pattern using a couple of stamps. As I used vintage styled focal points, I made quite easy brown-toned backgrounds that fitted both of the focal images. 

Besides the inked background and another little layering piece, the cards don't have many details. There's a piece of old book paper to give more of that vintage vibe and a little sentiment wreath sticker stating "Merry Christmas" in Finnish. Apart from those, there's just a small twine bow adding another texture to the makes. 

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a wonderful Friday and pleasant weekend! 

Materials: 

old Christmas cards

Fabriano - Accademia 160g cardstock

Tsukineko - Versa fine Clair Nocturne

PaperArtsy - TS065 stamp set

Stampers Anonymous - COM007 Ticket stamp

Ranger - Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Scorched Timber

Ranger - Distress Oxide Peeled Paint

Posca PC-1M white

Christmas sentiment stickers

kraft card bases, vintage book page, nature twine

double sided tape, foam tape, craft glue

brushes, paper cutter, scissors, ruler, water mister

Holiday Klimt - PaperArtsy

Moikka again! Yesterday I shared a pair of cards (link), which were inspired by Gustav Klimt and done for PaperArtsy. I then hinted also, that I actually made a trio of cards and the third one would be a bit different. Today I'm sharing that third one.

While the other two were without any sentiment, I added a Christmas greeting to this card. I also used a red card base instead of white and instead of clear rhinestone stickers used red half pearls here, which reminded me of berries.

If you want to know, how I made the cards, please head over to the PaperArtsy blog (link) as I have a detailed step-by-step post there! The background is done using embossing powder resist and the character coloring prompted me to get myself a Christmas gift! More about those both here (link).

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a beautiful Wednesday! 

Materials: PaperArtsy, Ranger, Tsukineko, Korttipaja, Sinelli

Peppermint pairs - a pair of cards

Hello and merry Christmas! ...oh wait, not yet. But here's a couple of Holiday cards I made using Tim Holtz paper dolls and some trimmings from previous cards.

Back in October, I published these Lawn Fawn cards (link). I used inks and a stripy stencil to make a candy stripe style background for those. When then trimming the background pieces smaller, I got these left over striped pieces and I left them on my craft table for a while as I liked the look of them. My original idea was to use them together with Lawn Fawn stamps again, but this time making a different composition, a more minimalistic one. But instead, as you can see here, I ended up using them together with some kraft cardstock and vintage elements.

Both cards have similar elements, just the composition is mirrored and the card base in the other is white and in the other red. Both pairs are from a Tim Holtz Idea-ology Christmas paper doll set. The big seal-like stickers state "Merry Christmas" in Finnish. The other "Good Christmas"  and "Joyful Christmas" in the other, to be exact. 

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a merry Tuesday! 

Materials: PaperArtsy, Ranger, Tim Holtz Idea-ology, J.K.Primeco

Sweet Holidays - a pair of cards

Moikka moi! It's Friday again and today I'm sharing some Holiday cards that I made for today's process video. You can see how I made the pair in this process video (link) on my YouTube channel.

For this pair of cards I had a couple of sources of inspiration. I first picked some dies from my stash. I first grabbed those Holiday styled leaves, which in the end ended up being just on the background. I then chose the big PaperArtsy heart die and finally found the focal points - or so I thought. I used this set, which had both the deer and the birds. While they are quite central to the composition, something was missing and for that I chose the PaperArtsy berry stamp set. Funnily enough, I had used that in the previous video, too!

I guess it was the colorants I chose for the stamped image and the big heart that decided the whole color palette. Or it just could be my love for vintage tea tones! I chose to use PaperArtsy's Infusions dye crystals to color the branch and as they have walnut crystals in the mix, I knew I was in for a brown tone. To heighten that look I used brown inks to color the background, too. Talking about the background, do you see a little mistake on the bird card version? If you did immediately, then my point gets lost, but I bet that wasn't the first thing you noticed, so maybe if a similar thing happens, you can just let it be and continue creating! (If you don't knoe what I'm talking about, there's an ink smudge on the top right corner of the card.)

Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a sweet Friday and peaceful weekend!

Materials:

Fabriano - Accademia 160g cardstock

PaperArtsy - EAB27 stamp set

PaperArtsy - Tall Heart die

Sizzix - Thinlits Christmas Elements die set 663413

Sizzix - Thinlits Winter Foliage die set 662571

Tsukineko - VersaFine Clair Nocturne

PaperArtsy - Infusions dye stains The Sage, Sunset Beach

Ranger - Distress Ink Scorched Timber, Hickory Smoke

Posca PC-1M white, black

baker's twine,

craft glue, foam tape

brushes, scissors, paper cutter, inking tools