Christmas Traditions – Stamped Smiles

Hello friends! I’m thinking after the several inches of snow we received last week; this is a really “time appropriate” creation to share with you!! LOL! The first of the month is always a brand-new release for Whimsy Stamps.

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For my card today, I’m using this darling new image called Snow Couple for my design! Super quick and easy image to color up, so adding more details to it is always something fun! 🙂 I’ve taken the Whimsy Stamps Notched Rectangle dies to cut it out with. I’ve also cut out a separate navy cardstock layer to mount behind it.

For my card front base, I’ve used the Whimsy Stamps Christmas Azure digital papers and cut it out with the Whimsy Stamps Hand Stitched Nested Rectangles die for the background and then mounted this over a navy A2 sized top folding card base. Then I’ve also cut a strip of the musical papers from the Whimsy Stamps Christmas Traditions digital paper collection and then ripped each side of it. I took some distress ink and sponged around the edges of it and mounted it over the card front base along with some white ribbon.

I took the image panel and navy layer and added some craft foam to the back of it and attached it to the front of my card base layer. I took some more of the white ribbon and made a bow to attach to the side of the image panel. I’ve also taken a sentiment from the Whimsy Stamps Penguin Christmas Sentiments 1 digital set and cut it out with a banner die that I then placed over the Hand Stitched Nested Rectangle die to make the stitch lines in it. I then took some foam tape and attached it on the bottom corner. For the sentiment, I’ve taken a Copic marker to go around the “cold” word and added some glitter for the snow details on it.

Lastly, I’ve taken an old Whimsy Stamps Snowflake die and cut out a piece from white card stock to attach at the top as an accent. I put a rhinestone in the center of it.

For coloring up this image, I’ve used the following Copic markers:

Snowman top hat/coal buttons: C8, C5, C3
Snowmen bodies/arms: BG000, R00 (cheeks), E33, E31 (arms), YR24, YR15 (noses)
Snowman top hat trim/scarf: B39, B37, B34
Snowwoman hat/scarf: V17, V15, V12, C1, C0
Background Sky/Ground: B01, B00, B000

After coloring this image, I’ve taken a snowflake stencil and then added some Nuvo Glimmer Paste Moonstone over top of it with a palette knife which created these cool glittery snowflakes over top of the image. You can still see through to the image which is exactly what I was looking for.

I then took some glitter and added it to the ground, the snow around the snow couple as well as the letters on the word “cold” within the sentiment with both a Nuvo Medium Tip Glue Pen (for the ground), as well as a Nuvo Precision Glue Pen for the snow on the lettering.

Hope you’ve got inspired with my creation with the new Whimsy Stamps digital release this month! Be sure to come back for more inspiration later on in the week! Thanks for stopping by!

Here are some challenges that I’d like to enter my card for:

Try it On Tuesday – Winter Wonderland
Crafty Catz – Anything Goes with optional twist: Too cute
A Perfect Time to Craft – Anything Goes
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers (SOSS124) – ‘W’ is for Winter
That’s Crafty! – Winter Wonderland
Stamps & Fun = Creativity – White/Blue

Hello friends! I hope that you’ve had a great weekend and a great start to your week so far! I’m back to share another image from the November digital release at Whimsy Stamps.

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This one is so sweet and makes me smile! This image is called Penguin Nativity by Crissy Armstrong. I really enjoyed coloring up this cute image for my card! I’ve used several Copic markers to fill the entire panel:

Penguins’ bodies: C8, C5, C3, C1, C0, Y00, R00, Y17, Y15, Y11 (wings: C3, C1), (Halo: Y17, Y11, Y00 and finished with gold gel pen), (Gown: E84, E81)
seal: W7, W5, W3, W1, W0, R00
tree: W7, W5, W1, W0
eggshell: E53, E51 (straw: YR24, YR21, Y15), (manger: E29, E27, E25, E23)
Star: Y17, Y15, Y13 (finished with shimmer brush pen and gold gel pen)
Ground: E21, E00, E000
Sky: BG000, BG10, BG13, Y11, Y00, 0 blender

After I was finished with the coloring, I ripped it out along the edges and then went over the edges with some distress ink and swiped it with a gold ink pad.

I’ve also taken some digital papers from the November release called Christmas Traditions (namely the musical sheet paper) and printed it out and the also ripped along the edges and attached that to another piece of ripped up brown cardstock that was also swiped with a gold ink pad. I attached these panels to an A2 sized top folding brown cardstock base and then took an additional strip of the musical sheet paper to add to the base of the card and took a white ink pad and sponged around the edges of the card base.

I took some natural twine and wrapped it around the musical sheet and ripped cardstock pieces before attaching it to the card base. I took an additional strip of brown cardstock and white heat embossed the sentiment from the Whimsy Stamps Holiday Mini Sentiments clear stamp set and made a tag with it by punching a hole at the top and threading the twine through it. I made a bow and attached it to the card front panel. I then used my fingers to bend the tag a bit for a more natural feel of the design.

Lastly, I took some foam tape and added my colored image panel to the front of the card. I took some tiny confetti stars and glued them to random places in the sky.

Here in the close-up details of the image, you can see where I’ve added some shimmer touches with a gold gel pen and then the places where the animals are ‘glowing’ as well as the side of the tree, I’ve added some shimmer with a clear glitter brush pen. (Still not sure I was able to fully capture this in my photo.) I think the ‘glowing’ feature turned out nicely.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and I’ll see you again soon! Thanks so much for stopping in!

Challenges: