Christmas Card Club Challenge #10 - Village Scene

Hi Crafters,

 

Hope all of you are well.

I am here today because it is yet another challenge at our friendly Christmas Card Club - those two weeks have certainly flown by.

Our Rita has chosen the theme this time and a lovely one at that... Village Scene.

I decide to go with my all time favourite Christmas stamp from Stampendous - Snowy Postcard - as it has this beautiful snow covered house scene. I also decided to do something a little out of my comfort zone too. I have been admiring some mixed media projects on a couple of blogs that I follow and wanted to dip my toe in the water and have a go at a few of the techniques. On my card you will notice that I have had a go at using crackle medium, inking, distressing and generally grunging everything up. I have a long way to go to match the talents of Pamellia and Kathy but I enjoyed trying.

Recipe
Card base cut with Go Kreate Die
Snowy Postcard Stamp - Stampendous
Distress Inks - Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo, Fired Brick
White Acrylic Paint
Crackle Medium
Stampendous Shabby White Frantage
Marianne Tree Die
Lea'bilities Holly Leaf Die
Berries - The Ribbon Girl
Seam Binding
Vintage Lace
MME Brad and Sentiment Banner
Metal Bell

A couple of close-ups of the crackled tree and crinkled seam binding...

 

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:
Winter Wonderland - Oh Christmas Tree
Brown Sugar - #145 Layers
One Crazy Stamper - ATG
Country View Challenge - Simply Scenic
Crafty Time - #1 Anything New (Crackle Medium)
Christmas Cards All Year Round - Vintage
CHNC Extra - May Challenge
CHNC Every Saturday - #228 Vintage or Shabby Chic
Frilly And Funkie - Snap, Crackle, Crackle


Now that I have attempted to do a bit of 'messy' crafting I think, when time allows, that I will create another project soon using my long neglected glimmer mists and sprays and finish up that pot of texture paste and stencils that have been languishing in the box on the shelf. I bought these items with the idea to use them straight away but found them rather daunting to know exactly what to so with them. We shall see how I get on.
 

Please pop along and have a look at the fabulous Christmas makes from the other members of the club by clicking the links in the tab at the top of my blog.

Well that's it from me today, hope you enjoy your Sunday.

 

Bye for now,

 

Lorraine

That Stamp Again....

..Hi, I'm really getting some great inspiration from this Stampendous Snowy Postcard stamp. I've made another Christmas card with it that I would like to share with you.

This card is for my mum she likes traditional scenes for Christmas, I hope she likes it.

It's a short and sweet post today as I have 6 Christmas cards left to make and I'm on a mission to get them finished today -  fingers crossed.

Bye for now

 

Lorraine



Stampendous - Snowy Postcard

Hi all,
I'm really loving this stamp from Stampendous, although I think I'm a little late discovering it, lol. I'm sure it's been out there a while now, and judging by the amount of lovely cards I've seen made with it when I did a search, you are all loving it too.
Here's a couple of different examples...

 

This stamp is so versatile and you can get very different effects just by changing the colour of ink it's stamped with or by layering it up like I have in the first example.

I also got to use my pot of Frantage for the first time and I loved the way that turned out too, it makes a great falling snow effect.

Well that's all for now,

See you soon,

Lorraine