I'm playing along with the
Tenth Annual
Month of Holiday Cards Challenge
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(Beccy's post with elegant holly cards to inspire is HERE)
Well, it's no secret, I love making cards, so I've made some more cards.
My cards use the FREE pre-coloured Snowman With Bauble image that Beccy has shared with us for the December Challenge on the Beccy’s Place Challenges blog. You can find this cutie HERE (pre-coloured image and B&W digital stamp) and HERE (pre-coloured image). The sweet sentiment is from the Christmas Blooms digital stamp set from the Beccy's Place Store.
I made a pair of cards using this stamp earlier today (HERE),
they're so cute that I had to make some more masculine ones.
Here is my second pair of cards using the Snowman With Bauble
pre-coloured digital stamp.
I opened the super cute snowman image in Silhouette Studio as it is a great tool for designing cards and printing panels, it's not just for cutting. I sized the image to fit nicely on a panel for a slimline card, leaving space underneath to pop a matted sentiment on top later. I added a thin black line to the image and sentiment panels, printed then manually cut down to size. I matted each panel with a fairly dark grey cardstock and trimmed to size with Perfect Layers Rulers, one set 1/16", the other 1/8". (Yes, I know, grey doesn't sound very Christmassy but I searched and searched for a blue shade to match his cap and scarf but everything clashed. A test against some shades of grey and we had the perfect colour and I love how it looks.) I matted the card base with white cardstock before adhering the image panels in place. I used Copic markers to add some shadows under the snowman then popped the sentiment in place with foam squares, so he looks like he's standing on the sweet sentiment.
Even though there are two cards using the same image and colour combo,
they're still one-of-a-kind.
*** INGREDIENTS ***
Snowman With Bauble - FREE pre-coloured image from Beccy's Place
HERE for pre-coloured image and B&W digital stamp - Beccy's Place the blog
HERE for pre-coloured image - Beccy's Place Challenges
sentiment from Christmas Blooms digital stamp set from the Beccy's Place Store
textured cardstock - to print the image panel
Copic markers - T0 + T1 + T3
300gsm smooth cardstock - to make the slimline card bases
stainless steel ruler and craft knife to cut cardstock to size
scoreboard and bone folder - to form the card bases
Perfect Layers Rulers - to trim the 1/16" and 1/8" matting layers
foam squares to pop the sentiment panels
Helmar 450 Quick Dry - to adhere image panels to card bases
Oooooh, the grey looks wonderful too! From the little thumbnail in the challenge gallery, I actually thought you'd used blue, which would have looked great too, but the grey is even better. I love the slimline design Tracy, the layout works perfectly.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Beccy