Christmas in July – sketch – inspired by Martin

Today’s theme was to use a sketch – and the sketch I came up with was heavily inspired by a card Martin made a few years ago which I did CASE at the time and I wanted to revisit!

So thank you Martin for the inspiration!

I ended up making three cards using the sketch … which you can see come together on my video

Making the circle elements was so easy – nine circle die cuts with the same size die – a bit of ink blending with the moon mask and then cutting the hills to size from the other two patterned paper circles.

And then glued the layers together – perfect for a quick and easy landscape element! (Please note Martin’s original took more effort and had lots of beautiful blending and die cutting! Mine is the lazy version!)

I then had to decide what to use for the other elements of the sketch – this one is probably closer than the others with the die cut tree. I chose to cut it from glitter paper and then added the die cut sentiment.

For this one I flipped the sketch and used a stamped and fussy cut tree which I coloured with the stampin blend markers. This time a larger die cut sentiment to cross the whole front.

This final one I used one of the leftover My Favourite Things cute images of the polar bear and the Santa. I then added a stamped sentiment.

For all three I added glitter glue – just in a few different ways – with hindsight I should have added the glitter glue before adding the focal elements – that would have been easier.

I also added the little die cut stars as embellishments – I kept these white and simple rather than adding more glitter glue.

Really love these cards – certainly they are easy to replicate over and over – and the sketch lends itself to different designs.

So once again a big thank you to Martin for the inspiration (as always!).

Happy crafting!

Catherine