Festive Cocktails

Hello, well it's my last blog post before Christmas and I've just got one more card to share...

perfect for that friend who loves a festive tipple.... we all have one of those 😉

I've used the Newtons Nook Cocktail Mixer stamp set and chose three of the drinks to colour 

and die cut. The three windows are made using the Triple Peek-a-Boo windows die which

 is unfortunately out of stock but any shape could be substituted here.

Behind the windows on the card base I blended blue ink and added a wavy snow bank too.

The sentiment, which gave me the idea for the card, is from MFT's Sassy Pants Holiday, 

I stamped it over a brushstroke just for a different look... works quite well I think 😊

I added a touch of glitter, a couple of holly sprigs along with some falling 

snow and called it done... pretty pleased how it turned out.

   

So that's all from me for 2019 

Wishing all our crafty readers a happy Christmas 

and all the best for 2020

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Have a Blitzened Christmas

I have a very dry sense of humour and I LOVE a cocktail, especially at Christmas, as my girlfriends and I always have a Christmas cocktail night out, so the new MFT Sassy Pants Holiday set had my name all over it!   I've made a couple of different options that will be the cards I sent to my girlfriends this year.

For my first one I went with 3 cocktails on a blended background across the whole of a 4 x6 landscape card.

I used two shade of blue oxide inks to blend the background and then stamped and embossed in white snowflakes (mine were from the Hero Arts Winter Silhouettes stamp but if you check out your winter stamps you'll find lots have little snowflakes hidden on them - always check your little added extras!)  I embossed my two sentiments in white to match.

To create my cocktails I used the martini glass die from MFT's Martini Time and cut several from white card and used oxides to blend a cocktail on them (masking the edges with washi tape first)

To make one cocktail look well and truly "blitzened" to match the sentiment, I used Lawn Fawn's Tiny Gift Box Deer Add-On dies to add antlers and and a cross eyed face to my final cocktail.

In the end I thought it looks a tad fussy so tried a second more simple design.  This time with just the blitzened cocktail.

This time I just stamped a background panel using the "you matter" stamp from Concord and 9th (I actually stamped it 1½ times so I could make a slightly longer panel)  I just stamped the snowflakes in white for a more muted finish and switched the sentiments to a bold Christmas red.

I think I prefer this one so will probably make more of that - I may even try a few with the wine sentiment at the top and add antlers to a wine bottle die instead.   Let me know which is your favourite......

NEWS FROM THE STORE

Not much news this week:

The only confirmed arrival is the new Waffle Flower release on 5th December which we should have for release providing customs don't hold it.

That's all for now.

Tara