CCAYR ~ March Christmas Challenge

  Hello crafting friends and welcome to this month's 

Christmas Cake Challenge at Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.

March Christmas Cake Inspiration

Holly & Berries &/or Stars, with Brown as the main colour!

Brown is not a colour I typically associate with Christmas, so this really was a challenge for me, but I think I managed. What do you all think?

I started by looking through my Christmas papers, and chose this patterned paper from the Woodland Winter Paper Pad by Studio Light.  Next I cut out the brown paper mats and Petra's Botanical Star, from Marianne Designs, both in brown and in white. I decided to use the white for the front with the brown inlay in order to make my little squirrel multi layered image stand out a little more.  The squirrel is from the Holly Jolly Christmas cutting sheet by Yvonne Creations.   I used pop dots in between each layer to add dimension. The stamped greeting is from the Vintage Christmas stamp set by Whimsy Stamps and was stamped using Brilliance's Coffee Bean ink.

On the inside, I the brown star with the white inlay so that I could stamp my sentiment.  This  sentiment is from Great Impression Stamps, and was also stamped using the Brilliance Coffee Bean ink.  I added my favourite little holly stamp, from Stampabilities, and coloured it using copic markers.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Now it's your turn to make a Christmas project that falls within our challenge theme, and come play along with us.  You have till the end of the month to link your project to our blog at  Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.

Crafty hugs,

Fairy Stamper ~ Sneak Peek ~ Love Shack

 Hello friends and welcome back to another sneak peek of our new release coming out tomorrow.  

Fairy Hugs will be launching 33 new stamps and 7 stencils on The Craft Store show.  Julia Watts will be demonstrating these new stamps and stencils starting tomorrow, 10 January and will continue on the 11th.  Here is the link to the times these shows will air ~ https://thecraftstore.com/tv-schedule

My card today shows you the Fairy Hugs Love Shack which I have used in a non Valentine way.  In fact I have used it as a Houston Spring day with a surprise Freeze that happens every now and then kinda way!  It's so bad that even the ducks don't know whether to come or go :-)

I began by using a pre made background and arranging all my pieces to see where masks were needed.  Next I started stamping the different images, using a variety of inks, depending on which items needed to be coloured in.  When all the stamping and colouring was done, I added a few finishing touches with a red glaze pen and added the snow using my trusty white Signo pen.

I have a list of supplies for you but remember that some of the items will only be available tomorrow at the Fairy Stamper store during our release.

Fairy Hugs Stamps

Love Shack, Fence, Horse & Foul, Stone Walkway, Flying Birds

Memento Inks

Rich Cocoa, London Fog, Bamboo Leaves

VersaFine Clair Inks

Shady Lane, Pincecone

Brilliance Archival Inks

Coffee Bean

Like I mentioned on Friday, this release is definitely one of my favourites :-)  I hope you have a few minutes to watch the launch tomorrow on The Craft Show.  To see more sneak peeks until then, come join us on our Facebook group page where the DT will be showcasing their projects using products from the Fairy Hugs' new release.

Also, remember that our challenges go live on the first Thursday of each month on our Facebook group.   All you have to do is to create a "Magical" project and upload the pic to our challenge album.  There is a $15.00 prize for one lucky crafter!

Crafty hugs,