Merry Christmas

Hey stampers, Anni here!

We all love the Little Agenda series by Mama Elephant, don't we? For this card I combined Mama Elephant's Little Santa Agenda and Little Reindeer Agenda. And I was really happy when I found out that a lot of the images in Mama Elephant's Me and My Yeti have just the right size to go with the reindeers and santas.

I stamped all the images I wanted to use, coloured them with alcohol markers and fussy cut them.

These little critters are just too cute. But sometimes I struggle to create a layout with these small figures on a card. Lawn Fawn's Peekaboo Backdrop die is the perfect solution. I die cut the frame from white cardstock and created small scenes in each section - so much fun.

For the background I just added some ink blending to my cardbase and splattered some watered down white acrylic paint on it to create the the snow. The snow slopes in the frames I cut by hand.

The sentiment I stamped in one of the rectangles using a stamp from Lawn Fawn's Reveal Wheel Holiday Sentiments. I love this set. It has all these tiny sentimenty that I use often.

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend!

Anni

            

   

Cool Penguins

Today I have two Christmas cards to share, using some lovely products from Mama Elephant and Lawn Fawn.

 

I die cut the Lawn Fawn Snowfall Backdrop Portrait die from both kraft card and dark blue card stock. Layered over a white card base, it gives a really lovely effect, but I wanted some extra Christmas sparkle for my cards.

I added some double sided adhesive to my card bases, then sprinkled on some Lawn Fawn Prisma Glitter. Using my finger, I burnished the glitter in to remove any excess. I then adhered the panels onto the cards.

Next, I die cut a couple of Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillsides from white card. This die set is currently out of stock. As an alternative, you could use the Lawn Fawn Simple Stitched Hillside border dies, or even the Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Backdrop Portrait die.

 

On the hillside pieces, I heat embossed a greeting in gold from the Mama Elephant Scripty Xmas stamp set. I then adhered the hillsides to my card bases.

I stamped and coloured some images from Mama Elephant Cool Penguins, and also the Mama Elephant Little Reindeer and Santa Agendas. I cut out all the images and added them to my card with foam tape to finish.

 

Which is your favourite background – kraft or dark blue? I can’t decide!

 

Thanks for joining me today,

Gemma

Lawn Fawn Prisma Glitter

Lawn Fawn Snowfall Backdrop Portrait

Mama Elephant Little Reindeer Agenda

Mama Elephant Little Santa Agenda

Mama Elephant Cool Penguins

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

Merry Christmas Twice

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Don't you love the Little Agenda series by Mama Elephant? So cute!
For the two Christmas cards I want to show you today I used the sets Little Reindeer Agenda and Little Santa Agenda.

I die cut two Stitched Mini Scallop Rectangles by My Favorite Things from alcohol marker friendly paper. Then I draw a fine line with a pencil and stamped the santas and the reindeers in a row.
For the colouring I used alcohol marker.
I used the alcohol marker for the sky, too, and let it fade into white. The ground I created by inkblending grey ink.

For the sentiment I die cut the word Christmas (it's a part of Lawn Fawns Merry Christmas Border)  from gold paper. The same paper I used to die cut the stars for the background with the star dies from Lawn Fawns Stitched Journaling Card and Mama Elephant's Confetti  Creative Cuts.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.