Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round ~ Santa Ornament

  Hello and welcome to April's Christmas challenge

 at Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round. 

Our challenge this month is Gnomes/Santa/Elves.

Here is our inspiration pic ...

I decided to go with Santa and came up with this card.

I used the Christmas Ornament die from Marianne Design and cut out the ornament using gold mirri cardstock.  I also cut out additional trees and stars in green, red and gold cardstock, respectively.

This card has a beautiful shine to it but it sure was very hard for me to photograph.  Still want to do those photography classes sometime :-)  Even the Santa pic is made of a shiny cardstock.  It is from the 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, Mirri Magic Pad by Hunkydory.

I used the Swiss Dot embossing folder from Cuttlebug for the background and the Bows Punch die from Marianne Design to create the little bow on the ornament.  I topped it off with a tiny gold star.

On the inside, I used the bottom half of the Merry Christmas Tree die by Impression Obsession and used a left over tiny gold star to dot the "i".

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,

Crafty Gals Corner # 249 ~ Dots and/or Stripes!

     Hello crafting friends and welcome back to another fun challenge

 starting today at Crafty Gals Corner! 

Challenge #249 ~ Dots &/or Stripes

 Our sponsors for this challenge are: 

(listed in alphabetical order)

Jan's Digi Stamps

Prize ~ $10 Gift Certifcate

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Mirtillamente Craft Shop

Prize:  2 digis, 1 pad of digital papers "mini"

and the possibility of being Special Guest DT

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Using the sweet image "My Snowmies" from Jan's Digi Stamps, I created this fun tri-fold card.

The card fold is from Silhouette. I changed it to fit the Snowmies and resized it so that I would end up with a 6.5" x 5" card.  I coloured the image using Copic Markers.  I added a sprinkling of Snow Shakables, from Marianne Design, to create the pompoms, the cuffs on the mittens, and the trim on the hats of the snowmen.

I used Cuttlebug's Swiss Dot embossing folder to emboss the snow and have lots of dots on my project. The background paper, from Hobby Lobby called O Holy Night,  also has some snow flurries in the shape of dots.  To emboss the cloud, I used the Divine Swirl folder, also from Cuttlebug.

On the inside I added another snowbank and a couple of trees.

That is all for today folks.  Thanks so much for stopping.  I would love to you see you play along with us.  You have until noon, CST, on 12 December 2023, to link your project to our challenge.

With this card, I'm going to play along at

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Crafty hugs,

Fairy Stamper ~ Deer in the Forest

 Hello friends and welcome back to my Fairy Stamper Friday share!

As Christmas approaches, cards should all be in the mail by now.  If you're like me, though, you're still a few cards short.  This card came together pretty quickly so I think it will work well for mass producing.

I began stamping the deer and the pine trees.  Next I partially masked the deer and inking the sky.

When all the ink was dry, I used a stencil and Aleene's Glitter Snow paste to create the snowfall. When the paste was dry, I used my dies to make all the die cuts, embossed the white mat, and assembled the card. 

On the inside, I left it very simple by just stamping my Christmas sentiment. This gives me space to write my personal message. All in all it just took me a little over 20 minutes to complete this card. 

Listed below are the supplies I used to make my card, most linked the Fairy Stamper store, for your convenience.

Fairy Hugs stamps - Rugged Pines, Mini Deer, Pine Cluster

Distress Oxide Inks - Stormy Sky

VersaFine Clair Inks - Acorn, Pinecone, Rain Forest

Frog's Whiskers Stamps - A Wonderful Year

Other supplies:
Marianne Design - Merry Christmas Circle
Elizabeth Craft Designs - Snowstorm & Mounds Stencil
Cuttlebug - Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Frog's Whiskers stamps and others from European companies are available at Fairy Stamper during special order events that the Fairy Stamper store holds every once in a while. The best way to know about these is to subscribe to the newsletter HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you will come play along with us and share your magical creations on our Facebook group.

Till next time,

crafty hugs!