Polar Peek-a-Boo Pals Tags and Cards

Hello, Tallie here with a couple of cards and a couple of tags featuring the super cute Avery Elle Polar Peek-a-Boo Pals set. This one uses quite a few products but I think the effort is totally worth it!

I started out by stamping all the critters from the Avery Elle Polar Peek-a-Boo Pals set onto some Bristol Smooth Paper. I coloured them in with my Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers, using a waterbrush to push out the colour and give dimension. Once dry, I cut these out with the coordinating dies.

To make the tags, I started off by cutting some of the gorgeous winter papers from the Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow Christmas 6x6 paper pad with the Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Star Stackables dies and Stitched Star Frames dies. I also cut out more of each out of some acetate and white cardstock so I could stack the layers to create some shaker tags. I filled the insides with some blue, turquoise and iridescent sequins. I sandwiched some ribbon from my stash in between the layers of cardstock to finish off the bases.

I adhered the critters onto the acetate and white heat embossed the 'merry christmas' sentiments from the stamp set onto some black cardstock. I cut these out with a Lawn Fawn Everyday Sentiment Banner die. Some black gel pen for the eyes and noses and a little Wink of Stella for some shimmer finished off the tags.

To make the cards, I used some of the off-cuts left over from the tag bases. I silver heat embossed the sentiment from the Avery Elle A Merry Little Christmas set for one and made another banner for the other, this time white heat embossing on some red cardstock. I added some Glossy Accents for the lights and a little Wink of Stella for the scarf and hat.

Thanks for reading and I hope your Christmas crafting projects are going well!

Catch you next week.

Tallie

    

Getting Festive

I'm back again with more from the Avery Elle Christmas release.  I don't normally feel the urge to create Christmas cards this early but these sets have really inspired me so I have another 4 cards to share today!

Firstly, I couldn't wait to use the corners some more.   I did a very similar design to the ones I did on Friday but specifically aimed to send to family in Australia this time...

I embossed the sentiment in rose gold then inked over with distress oxide in peeled paint and evergreen from AlteNew and did a little splattering after buffing the embossing clean.  I added the koala from the original Peek A Boo Pals and turned him festive by borrowing the hat off the deer in A Merry Little Christmas.

For the second card I stuck with the corner but gave it a complete twist - having a character taller than the corner means you can move the corner out of the corner and it still works.  Here I used the bear from A Merry Little Christmas and for the sentiment went with a double coloured embossing to make the Merry pop.  I embossed the blue fist avoiding as much as possible getting any powder on the word merry.  Then add the red and use the tonic embossing pen to draw over the y where it crosses the blue.  Makes the sentiment super modern particularly if you used a bold fresh colour combo.

Next I wanted to play with the stunning Starry Scene set so I stamped the big background using tumbled glass oxide onto a square card and then stamped the trees and mountains onto copic colouring card so I could colour and cut them out.  I added a character from A Merry Little Christmas and used the sentiment from that set too.

For the last card I did second generation stamping of the background with the ink that was left on the starry background from the first card and just added a couple of characters from A Merry Little Christmas and more trees from the starry scene.   It's a great set to add big impact for quick cards.  For the sentiment I went back to my corner set and used masking to selectively ink up only the Merry Christmas part.

Hope that inspires you to get started on Christmas cards - only 135 days to go!

NEWS FROM THE STORE


Our AlteNew delivery with their new watercolours is in transit and due to reach us tomorrow fingers crossed - we will get it opened and processed as quickly as we can but it can be delivered anytime up to 7pm.

The August release from Concord and 9th is due to ship tomorrow so should be here by the end of the week.

We have the whole of the new Hero Arts Winter Catalogue ordered and its due before the end of August.

Catch you later

Tara

Christmas Corners

With the thousands of stamp sets that pass through SHC HQ, it's easy to become jaded, but every so often a set comes along that it is just so different to anything I've seen before that I get over-excited and there was one such set in the new Avery Elle release for me - Corner Sentiments Holidays.  I was just so excited about the graphic style of the sentiments and the ease with which I knew I could batch make lots of really interesting but quick and easy Christmas cards.   Here are the first two I knocked up last night.

For the first one I just used one sentiment and the two snowflakes that are included in the set, embossed them with detail white powder (my go to now for all white embossing) onto a white card panel trimmed to fit a 4x6 card and then blended over the whole panel with tumbled glass and broken china distress oxide inks.  Job done.

For the second card I changed the orientation (the corners are so perfect for that - they fit either way!) and the sentiment and went with candy apple and fired brick oxides this time.  I added one of the adorable mice in their Christmas onesies from A Merry Little Christmas on top of the sentiment (stamped direct for the whiskers and tail then stamped again on white card to colour with markers and fussy cut without the difficult bits and layered up) and as he had his hand up added the guiding star in his eye line.  Any one of the cute characters would work - as would the polar peeking pals!

I can't wait to try out some more ideas with these corners and am hoping the fact that they called them Corner Sentiments Holidays means they are planning a range of corner sentiments for other occasions too!

See you Sunday........

Tara