God Jul - Christmas card with products from Gummiapan

And so we're entering into the last week before Christmas! Please remember to slow down once in a while and why not color? On this very CAS Christmas Card I've used an image created by Bildmålarna for Gummiapan, called "Flicka med julblomma". Lot's of grays - almost to the point of blue! Or actually - it does actually look kind of blue, also IRL. 

The sentiment die is also from Gummiapan (Stor God Jul) and I cut it in warm gray CS to match the image and then painted the outlines with a gold pen. The little holly image is from a Lawn Fawn stamp set called "Joy to the woods". The frame around the card was created using a snow pen.

Copic Markers used:

Hair:E40-41-42-43-44

Skin: E04-11-13-21, R20

Clothes: C0-1-3-5-7, W1-3-4-6-8

Flower and button: R35-37-59, YR93-99

Berries: RV93-95

Holly Leaves: G21, G46

Highlights were made using a white gel pen and glossy accents.

Have a nice Monday evening! :-)

Lawn Fawn - Frosty Fairy Friends Christmas card

Hello and happy Saturday!

Today I want to show you one of my all time favorite Christmas cards. I can't get enough of these overly cute fairies, the distressed background and the stitched cloud backdrop... I just love it so much.

So on to the details:
The background was made using distress inks Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass and Broken China. Once blended I spritzed it with some water droplets from a spray bottle and then die cut the stitched cloud backdrop.

The fairies and all of the other stamped images are from the Frosty Fairy Friends stamp set from Lawn Fawn. And they were all colored in with my copic markers.

I die cut some hills out of white CS to make some snowy hills, using the stitched hillside borders.

Lastly the little scene was mounted on a vanilla card base with a frame created with the outside in stitched rectangle dies - the largest one.

Wishing you all a pleasant evening and I'll be back tomorrow with another Christmas card! //A

Lawn Fawn Christmas card - Here we go a-waddling and Joy to the woods

Happy Lucia everyone! 

We've just returned home after a very nice Lucia "concert" at the kindergarten - here in Sweden we celebrate Lucia today and all children sing to parents, friends and family and there are also Lucia concerts in various places around the city. Such a nice tradition!

In lack of Lucia stamps - here are some singing penguins from Lawn Fawn instead! :-)

I started out by making the square sky background using some Distress Oxides in Abandoned Coral, Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey and Antique Linen. After blending them for a seamless look, I splashed some water droplets from an ordinary spray bottle (nothing fancy) and wiped off with a paper towel to get the oxide effect. 

The house die is from Lawn Fawn and I believe it's an add on to the stitched hillside pop-up, though I didn't use that here, I used instead the stitched hillside borders for the snowy hill, which also coordinates fine with the house die.

The penguins, the bird and the lamp were all colored in with Copics. Highlights were made with a white gel pen, some Nuvo crystal glaze and a snow marker.

The bird, trees and holly are from the stampset "Joy to the woods" and the rest of the stamps are from "Here we go a-waddling".

I'm entering this card to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge "Stitch It".

See you soon! //A

Christmas card with Tiddly Ink's Wryn!

Hi everyone! Here's a CAS christmas card for you! I used a lovely digital stamp from Tiddly Inks, called "Reindeer Games", and colored her up with copics. And the colors are:

Clothes (and Rudolph's nose): R35-37-59

Shoes: E41-43-44-47

Hair: E50-51-53-55, YR20

Skin: E00-04-11-13-21, R20

Rudolph: W1-4-6-8, R20, YR20

Antlers and tail: E00-11, YR20

Collar: BG93-96-99

Bells and belt: YR23 and Wink of Stella in gold

Holly leaves: G21-46

Highlights were made with a white gel pen and for the furry part of the santa hat I used a snow marker and heat set it with my heat tool. The bells as well as Rudolph's nose also got  a coat of Nuvo crystal glaze. And finally I enhanced the eyes with some Nuvo crystal drops in gloss - ebony black.

The rest of the card is really simple - instead of chalking the edges I used the Wink of Stella in gold to mark the edges. Then I mounted the card on some fun foam and finally assembled on the card base, which measures 5,5"x4,25".

I'm entering this card to the Tiddly Inks challenge #208 "Be Merry".

Wishing you all a nice evening! //A

Duh-nuh - Lawn Fawn / Gummiapan birthday card

First of all - I've got to say that I'm really pleased with how this card turned out. Especially since it wasn't meant to look like this when I first started. This card was made from a mistake...!

As I was creating the background for the Happy Hippos Shaker card, I didn't like how the colors turned out. I found it to be a little too dark to be a sky background. So I put it aside and started over with some lighter colors.

Then, when I was about to create this shark-card, I was initially inspired by this card from the talented Yainea. But as I started to play,  I got the idea to switch the card fronts and make the intended front the inside instead. And now - I'm totally glad I did! 

The "new" card front is just some washitape and the polaroid frame die from Gummiapan, paired with the shark fin and sentiment from the Lawn Fawn stamp set "Duh-nuh". The waves were made using the wave accent die from Lawn Fawn.

The inside is made of Distress Oxides and some Distress ink in tumbled glass, broken china and faded jeans. See now why I thought it was too dark for a sky?!! So to make it an underwater scene, I added a spritz of water to make the colors oxidize. The corals, sea weed and little fish are from the "mermaid for you" stamp set - also from Lawn Fawn - and they were stamped directly onto the distress background, using Versafine black ink.

And the shark is, of course, also from the duh-nuh set. Colored in copic sketch markers: C5-3-1 and highlights with a white gel pen. And if you can spot the discoloration on the shark's forehead - that was also a mistake as I dropped one of my ink blending tools on the shark while putting them away from another project... Oh well!

And to avoid the messiness of embossing on the polaroid frame - I just stamped the word "jawsome" (from the duh-nuh set) in black versafine ink and then went over the letters with a clear sakura glaze pen. Just to get some dimension. The bubbles are also enhanced with some glossy accents.

Thank you so much for stopping by. Hope you have a "fintastic" day! (yeah - another "pun intended")

Below you can find links to the supplies I've used - ones that still are available for purchase, that is :-) 

Affiliated links used when possible at no cost for you...!

Birthday Shakercard feat. Adorable Elephants from MFT

Hi everyone! Today's card is a shaker card with an adorable little elephant from a stampset from My favorite things called exactly that: Adorable Elephants. This stampset has been on the market for some time now, but it's new to me and I can't get enough of these little creatures...! 

This little fellow was colored using Copic Markers:

Body - N0, N2, N4 and N6

Ears -  R00, R11, R20 and RV21  

The dots on the cheeks were made using a white Sakura gel pen.

                                                              

To create the background, I used an older background stamp from Hero Arts and stamped it with Distress Oxide ink in the color "iced spruce".

The shaker part was inked with the same ink and I tried to achieve a somewhat ombré background, using the emboss resist technique with some of the butterflies from the stampset. The frame was diecut with the new stitched rectangle frame dies from Lawn Fawn.

The black enamel dots were made with Nuvo Crystal Drops - gloss Ebony black.

The sentiment "Grattis" means "Congratulations" in Swedish and was diecut with a die from Rox Stamps. I inked it up with some Distress Inks: "Abandoned Coral" and "Festive Berries". The heart balloon was also colored using those inks.

And to make it a shaker card - I popped the frame up in some foam adhesive and also adhered some transparent plastic to make the window. The confetti is a mixture of sequins from different suppliers, f.x. YouDo.

The inside was also made with the Lawn Fawn frame rectangle dies and inked with some Iced Spruce Distress Ink. The stamps are from the same stampset, mentioned above.

And the backside uses my sticker with contact info, along with a cute stamp from Gummiapan: "limited edition" - (which it is)!

To personalize the card before sending it - I simple added the recipient's name using alpha stickers from Tim Holtz. 

I hoped you enjoyed this card, and if you did - please leave a comment! Thank you for visiting and see you soon! Love //Anna

Below you can find links to the supplies I've used - ones that still are available for purchase, that is :-) 

Affiliated links used when possible at no cost for you...!

My Favorite Things ADORABLE ELEPHANTS Clear Stamps BB28	Tonic EBONY BLACK Nuvo Crystal Drops 650N	RESERVE Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad ABANDONED CORAL Ranger TDP46769	Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad FESTIVE BERRIES Ranger TDP39969
Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Oxides Ink Pads - Iced Spruce	*Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Dimensional Adhesive	ScraPerfect LARGE NO CLOG WRITING CAP Tip 000082	Ranger Embossing Powder WHITE EPJ36685
Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark VM-001	https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product.aspx?id=342224	DoCrafts 3D FOAM TAPE 9mm x 5m Stick It STI7201	Sakura 6 WHITE Gelly Roll Classic Medium Point Pens Set 57488
*Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL Applicator Foam IBT23616	*Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING FOAM REFILLS Applicator Tool Refill IBT23623	https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product.aspx?id=344436	https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product.aspx?id=344440
Copic Sketch Marker N0 NEUTRAL GRAY NO. 0	Copic Sketch Marker N2 NEUTRAL GRAY NO. 2	Copic Sketch Marker N4 NEUTRAL GRAY NO. 4	Copic Sketch Marker N6 NEUTRAL GRAY NO. 6
Copic Sketch Marker R00 PINKISH WHITE Pale Pink	Copic Sketch Marker R11 PALE CHERRY PINK	Copic Sketch Marker R20 BLUSH Pink Flesh Skin	Copic Sketch Marker RV21 LIGHT PINK
RESERVE Lawn Fawn STITCHED RECTANGLE FRAME Lawn Cuts LF1142

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Årets julkort!

Då var årets julkortsproduktion i full gång och den första batchen blev så här:

Den ska till svärmor i Danmark - därav de danska julstämplarna!

Om det är ngn som är intresserad av julstämplarna jag har använt i ramen så kan jag berätta att det är min DT-kollega Trine som har designat dem. Hon säljer dem i sin Etsy-shop men de kan också köpas genom love2scrap i Roskilde.

Tomteluvan är en Magnolia-stämpel som jag köpte begagnad för ett par år sedan. Jag har tänkt att använda den länge till ett projekt som denna, men har inte riktigt kunnat bestämma mig för hur jag ville ha den. Paper-piecing var länge ett alternativ, tills jag äntligen tog modet till mig och provade på Copics! Jag ångrar inte det beslutet, kan jag säga. Om det är ngn som undrar så har jag använt R35, 37, 39 och 59.