twofer...

So, anyway, I now have three Christmas cards sitting proudly on the sideboard, and I still haven't finished making mine! It's the same every year. Hence making multiples of one design, it's quicker! I also cheat, a lot, by using images that were supposed to be cards last year. Or is that being organised? I've only just thought of that.

One of my favourite stamp brands is Penny Black, and this image is Sweet Snowman, one of the Slapstick stamps. I was having a colouring session, and used Distress inks on the left hand image, and Copics on the right hand one. I really enjoy colouring with both, along with my Polychromos pencils - it just depends what I fancy using at the time. I like to press a Distress inkpad onto an acrylic block and pick up the colour with a damp paintbrush to paint an image stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink on watercolour paper. I find that the Versafine works fine on Neenah Solar White cardstock for Copics too, even though it's not supposed to!

Anyhow, two images duly coloured, and now for the cards.

This one has a faux - stitched border, with a tiny button at each corner that has a scrap of black embroidery thread tied through it. It's mounted onto a 13cm square of an Echo Park patterned paper with 1mm foam pad, and I used a 13.5cm card blank. A bit of Stardust Stickles and a dab of Glossy accents finish him off.

Next is the image I coloured with Copics. I need way more practice with them, but I love the way you can blend them. Well, I love the way other people can blend them, anyway!
Again, it's a 13.5cm card  blank, and the image is trimmed and mounted onto it with 1mm foam strips. A few die cut snowflakes from a Memory Box border die, Stardust Stickles on his bobble and a Glossy Accents nose, and he's done.

Better get them sent now...

See you later,

Janet x

P.S.  I used a Gelly Roll clear Stardust pen to twinkle up the ribbon on the parcel.