What can I say? Over half the year gone and I'm just starting to work on my Christmas cards for this year. My thoughts were to make a couple each month so I wouldn't have so much to do in the end, but you can see how that thought went!
Nevertheless, I have started. When I received my package in the mail a couple of weeks ago from Whimsy Stamps, and pulled out this cutie, I knew I had to colour him up right away. This image is called Jingle Bells 2 - Elephant.
I used prisma colour pencils to colour. After I was done, I sponged some blue and green around the edges to fill in the white space. I originally thought of making it a square card so that's why I went with the square stitched frame, but I was hard to do some embossing on a 5.5 card, when trying to maneuver the embossing folder and to have it fit in the machine - sometimes it just doesn't work. So I opt for the 6.25 x 4.5.
I used a Darice snowflake embossing folder for the background. MFT stitched square frame and flag stax for the sentiment.
To finish off I added some glossy accents to the jingle bells, white flock to the hat trim, stamped some little snowflakes around the edges of the image topped with some glitter, then added a couple of small snowflakes on the side of the frame- I covered them with glue using my quickie glue pen then dunked them in my jar of TH distress glitter.
I used one of the sentiments from MFT BB Santa's Elves set and stamped it in black on a flag stax. I then layered some red c/s underneath just to give it a bit of colour, and then added some dimensionals behind it.
So there you have it, my first 2018 Christmas card in the books! Now just to get working on the rest.
I haven't had much time lately for stamping. I've been working a lot of o/t through the week (12 hr days) and on Saturdays, which will continue for another couple of weeks. So when I'm up to it a night (which doesn't seem to be to often) I try to squeeze a bit of stamping in.
I appreciate you stopping by. Have a great day!
Pauline
