Santa's Snowy Sleigh Ride

By
I was inspired by the recent challenge sketch layout set by Freshly Made Sketches as I had in mind to use an embossed panel across my card created from a letterpress technique.  Just love how the reindeer and snowflakes stay white with the blue inked sky behind.  Santa on his sleigh is a die cut silhouette which came with the EF.


I've added two stamped presents coloured with promarkers, highlighted with pops of colour from glitter pens, a stamped sentiment strip and embellished with a couple of die cut snowflakes.  The snowflake patterned paper matt is really old stash and goes with the overall blue tones I wanted to achieve.


I've used - 13.5 cm sq white card base
Mag freebie EF & Santa silhouette die
 Stonewashed Adirondack ink
Anita’s Christmas Blue patterned paper
Mag freebie Nitwit present stamps
Promarkers & glitter pens
Xcut mini snowflake die & The Range mini snowflake die

Playing along with -
Freshly Made Sketches #411

Thank you for visiting - I'd love you to leave a comment if you have time - Steph x

Comments

  1. ClurSunday, 17 November, 2019

    Stunning card Steph. I love the way you have used the embossing folder to create the letterpress panel. It's great the way that you inspire me to try new techniques, thank you! Clare x

    ReplyDelete
  2. EmmaTMonday, 18 November, 2019

    Gorgeous effect, so effective and just love the blue and white. Emmax

    ReplyDelete
  3. Kim SMonday, 18 November, 2019

    I love the scene you created - with Santa in the sky and the presents down below! Thank you for playing along with us at Freshly Made Sketches.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Lee Ann BarrettTuesday, 19 November, 2019

    Your card is beautiful in blue. What a fun and cool technique! It really works great for your card. Thanks so much for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Cécile RIBONTuesday, 19 November, 2019

    You created such a pretty Christmas scene! I love this flying Santa. Thanks for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Thank you for taking a moment to visit ... I read and appreciate every comment you have time to leave. Steph x

Popular posts from this blog

Birthday Wishes Cake

By
Image
Made my own mixed media background panel for this birthday cake card with inks, stencils, stamps, glitter paste, stencil butter and embossing powder.  You might have to zoom in to see the sparkle and shine.  A favourite three tier cake with chocolate sprinkles ... yum! For the background I started by blending two DO inks onto white cardstock.  Repeatedly placed the mandala stencil on top, spritzed with water and dabbed off with paper towel to create a faux bleach effect.  Glitter paste and stencil butter was applied through parts of the seed head stencil.  Embossing powder was sprinkled over the top of the stencil butter and heated once dry.  Random stamping with various inks. Three tier cake die cut from scraps of pearlised card for the layered toppings (white layer was an embossing folder scrap) and similarly inked card as the background panel for the bases which have stencilled white heat embossed wavy lines.  Added a birthday wishes word banner die in white pearlised card backed wi
Read more

Musical Crossword ... Paper Players #387 Musical Challenge

By
Image
Set myself an additional challenge this week to combine a crossword stamp into the current  Paper Players #387 Musical Challenge  ... easy really just write the names of some instruments into the squares!  I also wanted to try the Retiform (grid) inking technique again and this is the end result. The crossword stamp was inked and embossed first before sponging distress ink along the edges of my paper masks to create several shaped areas into which I stamped musical instruments and notes using grey and black inks.  Finished off with an apt "Just a note to say ... " sentiment. I've used -  5x7 card base Scattered Straw DI on Claritystamp Theuva card Papermania Musical Instruments stamp set Papermania Mr Mister Crossword stamp Hobbycraft sentiment stamp Magazine musical notes stamp Thank you for visiting - I'd love you to leave a comment if you have time -  Steph x
Read more

Tim Holtz Christmas

By
Image
Today I'm sharing a couple of Christmas cards using two Tim Holtz die sets (Christmas circle words & festive repeats) which I've found are very versatile as many of the elements can be used all year round, a definite bonus.  This first little card has a die cut grid background and two hanging paper-pieced baubles for Dec 25th in grey and red with a splash of green foliage mounted on a grey matt layer. For my second card I chose to die cut the elements out of the white matt layer so the gold card base could show through.  I've had the gold die cut tree in my stash for such a long time so decided to emboss a tree on top for added texture and raised it on foam pads.  A lovely Christmas script sentiment was heat embossed with gold EP. I've used -   4x4" & A6 card bases Sizzix thinlits Tim Holtz festive repeat & circle words Christmas dies Mag freebies - foliage die, sentiment stamp, tree EF Linking up wit
Read more