White Snowflakes

Stampin' Up! wooden elements Christmas card

I was trying to make a one layer card when this card was born! They card base is Sahara Sand,  with Sahara Sand trees from Wonderland stamped across the bottom to create a woodland scene.

They sentiment and snow is taken from Jingle all the way. This month my newsletter projects all feature the Jingle all the Way bundle, subscribe using this link.

Stampin' Up! wooden elements Christmas card

But the card looked too sparse, it needed something extra. So I began to rummage in my craft room draw of goodies; this draw contains buttons, ribbons, embellishments, and some other odd bits and bobs. These snowflake wooden elements jumped out at me, but they didn’t look right in their ‘naked’ wooden form. So I coloured them with Whisper White Craft ink.

This was quite a task I have to say, I placed the wooden pieces on the ink pad, and covered them with a larger piece of scrap paper. Pressing the wooden elements into the ink pad to ensure they had a good coating of ink. They problem then was getting them off the pad! Paper piercer to the rescue, and they were laid on the same piece of scrap paper to dry. This ink always take a while to dry but on the wood it took even longer. Without using my heat gun to speed up the process (because it is about to die after a long and painful ill period!) I think it took about 24 hours for these pieces to to dry enough to  be stuck onto the card, and even then they were still tacky!

I think it was worth the effort though, because the card is so pretty. I think these snowflakes would also look gorgeous dipped in versamark and heat embossed in white, or silver, or gold…….. *runs back into the craft room to play some more!*


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Christmas Countdown | Sleigh Ride

Stampin' Up! Sleigh Ride edgelits jingle all the way

I am loving the bundles in the latest Stampin’ Up!® Autumn / Winter catalogue, did you know there are 17 bundles this time around?! That’s 17 chances to save 15%! Awesome!

One of my favourites is the Sleigh Ride Bundle, featuring the Jingle all the Way Stamp set, and Sleigh Ride Edgelits – designed to work together to make building Christmas scenes easy!

Stampin' Up! Sleigh Ride edgelits jingle all the way

I have really enjoyed doing these videos as part of Christmas Countdown. I changed things up a little making this series, and recorded voice-overs, what have you thought of them? There are a couple left before I transition into my 12 Weeks of Christmas series this year. I am so excited for this, I have some awesome projects planned, can’t wait!

I have no idea what has happened to my camera since I have been away, but suddenly everything is rather yellow – so I have edited this and the next few video’s on my YouTube channel (have you subscribed yet?) but hopefully its not too distracting

So, this card; I have focused here on tone-on-tone stamping and simple die cutting. This bundle is great, with a stamp set that is designed to add details to the die cuts created by the edgelits. The card base here is in Soft Sky, with the trees in Pear Pizzazz, and houses in Marina Mist.

What’s your favourite bundle from the new catalogue?


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