Let it snow {Mo’s Digital Pencil}

Hi, crafty friends. Today, I’m sharing with you a very simple card featuring Giggling Snowman from Mo Manning. This is probably my most used image of hers, and it’s 50 % off right now. She has a new store (here), which means that everything in the old store (here) is half off. The old store will close at the end of the year, so if you want something there, it’s best to get it as soon as you can.

I went for a no line version this time. This is probably my most used image from Mo, and I love how easy he is to color. I chose a pink color combo that I really like, and I think this could work both as a holiday card and as a general winter card. I added the dots back into his scarf using an extra fine white Sharpie, and then fussy cut him. He’s pretty easy to fussy cut, too. I used the Sparkling snow embossing folder from Simon Hurley (Spellbinders) on the background for some texture. I love the detail this embossing folder gives, and they’re proper six pointed snowflakes and not the weird 8 pointed ones that some companies make. Real snowflakes never have eight points, they always come in multiples of six. It has to do with the way water molecules are formed and then bind together. Anyway, it’s a great embossing folder and it adds interest to an otherwise plain background.

I trimmed my embossed panel slightly, added a couple of layers behind it and adhered it to a card base covered with a panel of Autumn Rose cardstock from Papertrey Ink. On a separate piece of Autumn Rose cardstock, I stamped a sentiment from the Snøstorm stamp set from byCino using VersaMark ink, before sprinkling on super fine detail embossing powder from Ranger and melting it until it was smooth. I cut my sentiment down to a wide strip, added a layer to the back of it for a little bit of dimension, then put a couple of additional layers behind the snowman before gluing him down and finishing the card with a few sequins from the Assorted Moonshine mix from Simon Says Stamp.

Simple color palette for this one.

Winter Greetings {Purple Onion Designs}

Hi, crafty friends. I’m sharing a fun winter card today featuring Tofu, Flappy & Mousy Fun in the Snow, which is a stamp from last year’s holiday collection of Pei’s images from Purple Onion Designs.

This is one of those super simple cards. I stamped the image using Extreme Black ink from My Favorite Things and masked it before stamping the Winter Trees background in Fadeout ink from Inkon3 for a no line look in the background. I colored in my scene using Copics, before using one of the dies in the Additional A2 Layers die set from Waffle Flower to cut it down slightly.

I stamped a sentiment from the Holiday Time Sentiment Set using Autumn Rose ink from Papertrey Ink, mounted my panel in the center of a top fold card base using foam tape and finished off with a few snowdrift sprinkles from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards. I love these sprinkles!!

I stuck to a pretty limited color palette, I feel, but there’s still a lot of markers.

Today’s the last day of the annual holiday sale over at Purple Onion Designs, so this is a gentle reminder to head over there, fill your cart with stamps at 25 % off, and check out.

Vinterklem {Rachelle Anne Miller}

Hi, crafty friends. I have a fun winter card to share today, featuring the Christmas Gifts digi stamp from Rachelle Anne Miller. I went a little untraditional in my color palette for this one. I colored the image with Copics, and after a couple of cards recently with very muted, vintage colors, I went super bright with this one. I love penguins done with BGs instead of grays, it’s like they’re happier, somehow.

I stamped and white heat embossed a sentiment from Huldra Designstudio directly onto my card base, which I made from Oceanside cardstock from Concord and 9th.

Above and below the colored panel, I added strips of patterned paper from the Party Patterns paper pad from My Favorite Things, before mounting it all on foam tape for dimension. I finished off the card with enamel dots. The bright green ones are from Papirdesign, the teal and yellow ones from the Cool Summer Nights and Pocketful of Sunshine packs from Altenew. The Papirdesign ones have more dimension to them than the ones from Altenew, which creates a little more variety.

By using an untraditional color palette and a non holiday sentiment (winter hug), this image can be used for more than just Christmas. I’m thinking this would make a great wintery birthday card.

Fun colors used for this one!