Winter Wishes ~ The Snowman And The Snowdog

Hello bloggers I hope you have enjoyed a good week.  Today I have a Christmas card featuring the Snowman and the Snowdog.

This card began as an 9x5 off cut of green card stock that I cut and scored to make a 4.5 square card blank.  Next using Creative Crafting World Perfect Christmas Companions CD-ROM, I printed off  a Christmas tree backing paper and a page of ribbon borders both in green.  Next I cut the ribbon borders sheet to size and adhered it to the front of the card.  I then used the Christmas tree paper and Spellbinders 'labels 19' die set to cut a mat for the topper characters.  Once die cut it was adhered to the bottom left of the card.  The Snowman and Snowdog were cut from white card stock using Crafter's Companion magazine 5 free die set.  Whilst still in the die I inked through with black soot and pine needles distress inks.  Once out of the dies I added them to the mat.  Finally I used Crafter's Companion 'The Snowman' stamp set and pine needles distress ink to stamp the sentiment onto white card stock.  It was then punched out with a circle punch and the edges of the die cut were inked with the same ink pad.  The sentiment was then adhered to the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Winter Wishes ~ Mittens

Hello bloggers I hope that you are all well and dry after the torrential rain we have had in the last couple of days.  Today  I have a winter wishes card for you.

This card began as an off cut of centura pearl card stock that I cut and scored to make a 6x4 card blank.  Next I used a snowflake patterned paper from my stash and adhered it to the front of the card.  Using  Hobby Craft 'mittens' stamp and black soot distress ink I stamped the mittens onto some Scandinavian  inspired paper.  I then fussy cut the mittens out.  I also cut a mat for the sentiment out of the same paper using Spellbinders Die D-lites 'frames two' die set.  Once die cut I stamped the sentiment using Crafter's Companion 'the snowman' stamp set.    The sentiment topper was then adhered to the left hand side of the card.  Next using some red polka dot card stock I die cut a mat for the mittens using Spellbinders 'labels 27' die set.  The mat was adhered to the card blank.  Finally the mittens were added to the mat using foam pads.

Happy Crafting  xx Hazel