Weeks like this I am so glad I craft a little ahead of time and get lots of projects done over a couple of days because this week I’ve barely left my bed thanks to a horrible virus. So the cards I’ve got to share were actually made a week ago when I panicked because I hadn’t got anything made for Festive Friday! Thankful to have been ahead for this week as otherwise it would have been a week off the challenge. Fingers crossed I am over the worst of this virus and should be back to being vertical next week!
Today I have three cards for my stash of Christmas cards. I had so much fun playing with a new layered stencil and so ended up making three cards. I also used the same set of stamps from an old Creative Stamping magazine set for the focal images because I thought they worked perfectly with the knitwear themed backgrounds.
I spotted the cosy knit layered stencils from Altenew and thought they were so cute so decided to treat myself to a little crafty splurge. There are two layers in the set and they create a lovely pattern with the different colours. You can of course add more colours with masking but for now I stuck to two colours for my panels.
I did one 6×6 and then the other two were more suitable for standard 6×4 cards.
I grabbed a mixture of blue, purple and green coloured inks and very quickly created the three backgrounds … I think I would have kept going if I had had more time as it was so cute revealing the different ones!
I then stamped out the two penguins and two bears with their winter clothing/accessories. The bear also had a couple of jumper options but I didn’t end up stamping those and instead stuck to the hat!
I coloured them all with my promarkers and then fussy cut them out and added their clothes etc too.
Then I made up the three cards. First the larger one.
I created a cluster in the middle of the card of blue cardstock and some blue paper scrap that was on my desk. I had also reclaimed the star embellishment off the card I made for my hubby (we don’t keep them after Christmas as so I always recycle or reclaim elements I think I can use again) and I thought it would work well on the card.
The sentiment is a Claritystamps one which I heat embossed in silver and fussy cut.
I finished off by embellishing with some blue card Candi.
The purple themed card I used the penguin on and I decided to make it quite bold with the black panel and a panel of ombré purple (again a scrap off the desk). I then added the white stitched circle die cut under the penguin and added purple card Candi to embellish.
The sentiment I stamped twice and added it on the front and then inside the card I added the second penguin and the second sentiment.
The last card I changed it up and added the panel on the edge of the card at an angle and then just added the bear on the top. I added the sentiment onto a mat so it had a frame and again card Candi to finish off.
Inside this one I just added another piece at an angle to tie in with the front.
Love how these three cards came together and in love with that layering stencil. So much fun to use!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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