S N O W Card

Card Positioning Systems is celebrating their 5th Anniversary by releasing a sketch a day for 15 days.

This card is my interpretation of the day nine sketch.

This was one of those sketches I looked and thought "that will be a nice quick one", however it took me all day to finish!  I've used the backsides of two papers for the card, one a Christmas paper by Graphic 45 which I had a fun tearing into strips and the other part of the Prairie Lane collection by Kaisercraft.

The snowman is cut using the Tim Holtz Winter Wonder die, and the fence is a Magnolia Doohickey which I have painted with crackle medium mixed with white paint.  All the edges have been inked with Antique Linen Distress Ink.  A scrap of fluffy wool, a few pearls and some letters from my stash and voila, challenge completed! 

Snowman Tin

Materials:
Warm Winter Wishes digi by Paper Pretties
paper doilies
ribbon
silver glitter
orange gel pen
Copic markers

It's time for the February challenge at Christmas Crafting, and this month the lovely Sara who has chosen a colour challenge: Blue, White and Silver.

The cute little digi can be found at Paper Pretties, if you haven't visited their store before they have some wonderful stamps to work with.

I enjoyed working with the image so much I made a second project, a Christmas card.  A white card base, with alternating layers of blue and white.  The central ornament cut with a Big Shot die, using plain card covered in silver foil.

Snowman Parts Gift Box

Technique:  Papercrafting

Materials:
patterned paper
Snowman Parts digi
Distress Inks:
* Victorian Velvet
* Vintage Photo
* Walnut Stain
* Milled Lavender
* Faded Denim
water colour paper
adhesives
ribbon, bling etc

Tools:
aqua brush
printer

The Winter Wonderland challenge for this week is red and green must not be seen.  It's actually tougher than I expected, especially as I had decided I wasn't going to use blues either.

I started with another Domino box, these are my favourite things to work on at the moment!  Here's what it looked like before I started doing anything to it.

The edges have been inked with walnut stain before gluing on the patterned paper.  The gorgeous paper was the inspiration for the whole box, the warm chocolate colours with dusky pink and plum.  Usually I choose a paper to compliment the stamp, I loved this paper so much I did it the other way around!  Ink the edges again with walnut stain after they have been glued into place.

You can download the paper for free from here.

The digi is coloured with distress inks, I love the soft, warm look they give The patterned paper really is the star here so I choose to keep it simple with just a ribbon, and a flower made from snowflakes.  This box will be perfect filled with marshmallows and pretzels (snowman parts!)

Before I go I wanted to share my little adventure this afternoon. As I was working on this box hubby came bouncing into the house yelling "There's a koala! There's a koala!". He had gone out to the car and he saw a koala running along the road, when it got startled it ran up the tree in our neighbour's front yard. To give you an idea of just how rare and special this is, I have lived in suburbia almost all of my life, and this is the first time in my 40 years that I have ever seen a koala just wandering around!