The Night Before Christmas

I’ve had a lot of fun making cards for Christmas these last couple of months. I really love the Little Agenda Santa and reindeer as they are so playful. The small size makes them quick to colour, which is definitely a bonus when making lots of cards.

I wanted to create a scene card, with Santa and his reindeer flying over the city. I chose to die cut a cover up frame from white card, then I coloured in the panels with distress oxides. 

I die cut an additional frame, then layered both onto a card base. This adds a little depth but not too much.

I added the top panel within the frame, along with the Santa in his sleigh and three reindeer, popped up with foam tape. I used a black fine-liner to draw in the reins.

For the panel at the bottom, I added some die cut buildings from the Mama Elephant City Sidewalks stamp set. I love the scripty sentiment stamps that are included in the set, which look like smoke rising from the chimneys. I heat embossed these in white on the panel, then added it to the card to finish.

I think this design would work well with a single stitched rectangle panel or frame too. 

Thanks for joining me today,

Gemma

Mama Elephant City Sidewalks

Mama Elephant Little Reindeer Agenda

Mama Elephant Little Santa Agenda

MFT Essential Cover Up Vertical

Shaker birthday card with MFT Snuggle Bunnies

Hi everyone, Esther here with a cute shaker birthday card using My Favorite Things Snuggle Bunnies.

Isn't this set adorable? I'll be making some Christmas cards with it too. One of the bunnies is gazing upwards - perfect for looking up at a Christmas star, some baubles or a sprig of mistletoe.

I did use quite a few products on this card... here goes! 

The frame is the My Favorite Things Essential Cover Up Vertical Dienamic. The top starry insert is inked card, die cut with the My Favorite Things Stars in Sky Vertical Dienamic and backed with white and gold glitter card. While this die is temporarily out of stock, you could use the Neat and Tangled Lucky Stars Die. 

The lower cloudy insert is cut with Avery Elle Pierced Cloud Elle-ments and inked in soft pastel shades. The My Favorite Things Snuggle Bunnies bunny and teddy bear were stamped using Morning Frost ink from the Altenew Warm Gray Ink Cubes for a soft outline , coloured in and then die cut using the matching My Favorite Things Snuggle Bunnies Dienamics.

I added a handful of Neat and Tangled Snow White Sequins before sealing the shaker with acetate and the die cut frame.

The "hope your day is" sentiment is from the Altenew Halftone Happy stamp set stamped onto a banner shape cut from My Favorite Things Blueprints 29 Dienamic. You'll be seeing more of this Dienamic in my future cards because it has brilliant, versatile frames and shapes that can be used across most of your card making. I love it. The "wonderful" die is cut from inked card stock using one of words from the totally fabulous Concord and 9th Wonderful Words Die.

The gorgeous sequins you can see around the card in the photos are the Neat and Tangled Sweetheart Sequin Mix, and they nearly went in the card too - it was a tough decision!

I hope you like the card and it inspires some of your own shakers - they're so fun to make. Thanks for stopping by!

Quick Anniversary Card

Sorry I'm late today - we overlayed after our long drive home from our mini break and I didn't manage to prep a post before we left.  I have a quick anniversary card to share today using one of the dies from MFT which are great if you need big impact in a hurry.

The Essential Cover Up Vertical Dienamic is a great die to frame a smaller image and still have big impact (there is a horizontal version too).  I used the cake images from Celebrate with Cake and simple embossed it on cream card with white satin pearl embossing powder decorating it with flowers and dots of liquid pearls.  The sentiment is from the new Essential Sentiments set which is exactly as described as there is pretty much a sentiment for every occasion!

Very quick and simple this week but hopefully still effective!

NEWS FROM THE STORE

We'll have lots of new releases in store this week:

• Reverse Confetti is due tomorrow (8th August) but it has not yet been delivered so it may be a day or two later.
• Concord and 9th is released on the 9th August - again not yet delivered but it is in the UK so we just need it to clear customs and make it up from Stanstead.
• Avery Elle is released on Thursday 11th and will be here by then so should be released at the same time as in the USA.
• Mama Elephant will be here for the following Monday (15th August) with Lawn Fawn and Altenew to follow fingers crossed as we are still waiting for both to ship.

With our mini break we have lots of orders and emails to catch up on but we'll get on top of it as quickly as we can. 

That's all for today folks - see you next week.

Tara