17 Dec

Reindeer Greetings

Hey, there! Reindeer greetings to you all! Santa is gathering all the last minute letters and I am sharing with you my latest cards. For these, I used the same stamps and created 5 different ones. Actually, that was my challenge for this Christmas: make more cards using the same stamp set. And well, I succeeded to make even more! Then, I mixed the sets, as in this case, and pushed creativity further. šŸ˜‰

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I made the top-folded card bases from recycled card. This type of card became my favourite. I stamped with Docrafts Artiste dye ink (Chocolate, Red, Metallic Jean Blue) and fast drying pigment ink from Tsukineko (Gold Galaxy). The stamp sets I used are Docrafts Create Christmas (came with a Creativity magazine), Tall Urban Stamp ā€“ Craft Christmas and Krafty Christmas by Dovecraft.

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The snowflakes have dots added with a white gel pen. I think this gives a lot of interest. And I put some glossy accents from Ranger on the reindeerā€™s noses. This gives dimension and a lovely shine.
The reindeer are coloured with Docrafts Papermania watercolour pencils.

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Thank you for reading this blog post and look forward to having you back here, soon,
Talida

13 Dec

Peace and Joy

imgn0262Hello, everyone! ā€˜Peace and Joyā€™ is one of the many cards that are to be shown on my page during the following days until Christmas.
It is a clean and simple card (CAS). And I really like the way it turned out.

The card base is made of 280 g kraft recycled card. I have discovered thereā€™s a Romanian craft shop where you can find it at a very good price and high quality. And I highly recommend it.
Onto the card base I stamped ā€“ using Docrafts Artiste dye ink pad in ā€˜Chocolateā€™ ā€“ one of the stamps from last yearā€™s Docrafts stamp sets ā€˜Folk Christmasā€™. Once it was dry, I added colour using some Papermania watercolour pencils. When finished colouring, I wrote the sentiment ā€˜peace and joyā€™ using an Artiste gel pen in white. With the same pen, I added a few dots on the robinā€™s tailā€™s feathers to create interest.
In order to increase the focus on the area where the stamped image is, I tied some white twine in a bow, glued it with some glossy accents and I trimmed a thin piece of burgundy card and glued it as to look like a frame.

Hope you enjoyed reading this new post and look forward to having you back on my page.

All the best,
Talida