Teddy Bear Christmas Sweet (again!)

Another purple Christmas card and this time featuring a teddy bear from the Teddy Bear Christmas Sweet set at Whimsy Stamps!  I coloured it with Copic markers and then used Whimsy's new line of fancy shmancy No Fuss Masks (so quick and easy!) to mask it up, and then I sponged on Shaded Lilac Oxide ink to give it a beautiful purple background. I used a tiny light swipe of Wilted Violet under the bear for some shadow where he's sitting. 

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Teddy Bear Christmas Sweet clear stamp set: 

No Fuss Masks - Teddy Bear Christmas Sweet:

Elegant Snowflake Border die: 

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Santa's Magic!

I'm still going strong on Christmas cards over here, and having a lot of fun getting into the spirit of the season!  For this card I wanted to make a magical scene with Santa flying through the sky.  The other six reindeer were taking a bit of a break I guess, heheh, but that's allowed.  

I wanted to do a fainter line on the stamped image, and so I used a grey - however, after the colouring was done, I did go over certain lines and re-draw over them with a Copic liner pen because they did need to be defined - especially around the character's eyes, nose, mouth and eyebrows, but also a bit on the sleigh runners and reins.  Other than that, I used Copic colours all over the main image and in the shadows of the moon, but all of the sky and trees was done using Oxide inks.  

I actually had the image stamped first, with no colour, then carefully cut out a mask to put on top of it.  I also cut out a circle to use as a mask where I wanted the moon to go.  Once the image and the moon were masked, I went to town sponging on the Oxide inks.  I started with Speckled Egg and Tumbled Glass in a halo around the moon, then Stormy Sky blended gradually into Prize Ribbon.  While everything was still masked up, I used the Winter Wonderland stencil and Black Soot to give me the tree silhouettes.  I was careful in how I ended the trees at the bottom - I wanted to avoid any abrupt endings, so I went back over the bottom areas under the trees with some more Stormy Sky and Prize Ribbon until it looked all misty and blended nicely. 

I left it overnight to dry because I didn't want any smears happening when I was colouring up the image and the moon! Once I was done colouring everything, I used a home made stencil and spattered on the little bits of snow in the pattern you see.  I took the stencil away and added a few more spatters here and there, then stamped the sentiment and called it done. 

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Santa's Magic Clear stamp set:

Sentiment Assortment - Merry Christmas clear stamp set:

Winter Wonderland 6 x 9 Stencil: 

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Purple Christmas card! Racoons...

Every Christmas I do up at least one card in a purple theme for a purple loving daughter of mine!  I thought it would do well if I used a racoon from Raccoon How've You Bin, and put him under a Christmas hat (from the Christmas Accessories digital set).  The green goes well with the purple, don't you think?  I love it.  To make this card you have to be prepared to do some fussy cutting and masking so that you can make it look like the hat is on the raccoon, and then sponge on the Oxide inks for the background sky, trees and snow! I coloured the hat and raccoon with Copic markers, but everything else is Oxide inks and the falling snow is Copic white paint on a watercolour brush and then spattered by tapping the brush lightly.  For the soft snowy hills, I just used some hand cut "hills" on scrap paper to use as masks for when I lightly sponged on the Shaded Lilac Oxide ink. 

All the product links are listed below - and If you make a purchase at Whimsy Stamps by following one of my links,  I get compensated (at no extra cost to you) even if it isn't a product from my line -  And of course I get compensated for every purchase you make from my line of images at Whimsy too.  Thank you so much for your kind support - because it means I get to continue drawing for Whimsy and having fun with all of you!

Raccoons How've You Bin Clear Stamp set: 

Winter Wonderland 6 x 9 Stencil: 

Sentiment Assortment - Merry Christmas clear stamp set: 

Christmas Accessories digital stamp set: 

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Woodland Critters with Sandy Allnock inspired background!

I had the pleasure of doing a Copic colouring course with Sandy Allnock and it was super fun!  I do recommend her classes as they are so easy to follow and fun to do.  This background was inspired by one of her classes and I love how it turned out!  I thought the deer (from my Woodland Critters Clear stamp set) was the perfect character to put into the scene.  I had made the background first, so I had to fussy cut the deer and the little bird and glue them in place.  I also hand drew a Santa hat to add to the deer to make it a little more Christmassy! 

The beautiful word die, "believe" was coated with Wink of Stella for some sparkle after I had glued it on.  

All the product links are listed below - and If you make a purchase at Whimsy Stamps by following one of my links,  I get compensated (at no extra cost to you) even if it isn't a product from my line -  And of course I get compensated for every purchase you make from my line of images at Whimsy too.  Thank you so much for your kind support - because it means I get to continue drawing for Whimsy and having fun with all of you!

Woodland Critters Clear Stamp set:

Believe Word and Shadow Die: 

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Monster Daze Christmas!

Heheh, I know some people feel like these monsters do around Christmas time, so I thought it would be funny to do up a card showing their expressions!  I laughed out loud when I saw it all finished with the sentiment.  Heheh! 

This is a lot of fun to make, and you can re-create it with some fancy shmancy masking techniques and lot of patience! I had to hand cut the following for masking - the larger candy canes (from Gnome Warm Wishes), the two monsters, and their hats!  I initially coloured everything with Copic markers, with the exception of the sky, which was done with sponging on Tumbled Glass and Prize Ribbon Oxide inks. 

It was a bit of a heart stopping moment when I started sponging the Tumbled Glass over the more distant and mid ground candy canes - believe me, not for the faint of heart! After all that colouring, at this point, if something goes wrong, it is a scary thought! But thankfully the ink and my hand and the sponge worked in concert, and everything turned out well! I did go over some of the more distant hills with a light coating of Faded Jeans Oxide and even a few sweeps of Prize Ribbon ink as well.  Then, I had the fun of splattering on the snow using Copic White on a paintbrush and tapping it until I had filled the sky and some of the mid and foreground too.  Then it was off with the masks, and to finish it off, I added a few splatters of snow on the large candy canes and the characters - but I kept it light so that they didn't disappear under a hail of snow! 

Another heart stopping moment was putting on the sentiment from Christmas Moments - dang, I am happy I have a stamping platform! I don't know what I would do without it (yeah I do, ruin many a card, that is what I would do, ha ha!). 

All the product links are listed below - and If you make a purchase at Whimsy Stamps by following one of my links,  I get compensated (at no extra cost to you) even if it isn't a product from my line -  And of course I get compensated for every purchase you make from my line of images at Whimsy too.  Thank you so much for your kind support - because it means I get to continue drawing for Whimsy and having fun with all of you!

Monster Daze clear stamp set

Christmas Doggies Clear Stamp Set: 

Christmas Moments rubber cling set: 

Santa's Magic clear stamp set: 

Gnome Warm Wishes clear stamp set: 

Christmas Accessories digital set:

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Teddy Bear Christmas Sweets again! AND Black Friday sale!!

I'm having some fun with teddy bears this Christmas!  And what better way to do that than to make a card with them in traditional Christmas colours and trimmings!  I have one of the characters from the new Teddy Bear Sweet clear stamp set, carrying his big load of candy canes; I imagine he's heading to the tree to hang them all on the branches! 

I coloured the teddy with a layer of Copics first.  Then, I went over most of it with coloured pencil to really bring it out.  I masked it off with the new NoFuss Masks from Whimsy - oh my, that makes masking so quick and easy, no fussy cutting your own mask out! I highly recommend because not only are they quick and easy, they also protect really well, and, they are re-useable if you take them off gently enough! You can get about three uses out of each mask!  And there's no sticky residue left on your card.  It's all a win-win!

Anyhoo, once it was masked, I sponged and blended a couple of Oxide inks - Twisted Citron and Cracked Pistachio, with a tiny dab of Rustic Wilderness for a shadow on the ground under his body.  Then I used the super cute Fadoodle Holly set by Faye, (LOVE you Faye, waving!!) to decorate the corners and border.  I stamped the holly, coloured it, fussy cut it and glued it down in the corners. 

The striped paper came from the digital pack shown below called "I Dream In Christmas"- I had it on my computer screen in my Pages program, and was able to stretch it out to fill the page.   I wanted to do that so I could make the angled layer that you see with the stripes going at a 45 degree angle (so it had to fill the whole page).  I printed it off and trimmed it to fit my card panel. 

Don't forget to take advantage of the Black Friday sale!! Details in the image above!

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Teddy Bear Christmas Sweets Clear Stamp Set: 

No Fuss Masks -Teddy Bear Christmas Sweets 

Digital Paper pack - I Dream In Christmas

Fadoodle Holly Clear Stamp Set:

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Elves On Christmas (again!)

Elves On Christmas clear stamp set at Whimsy Stamps makes up such a fun card, with three little elves to choose from. For this card, I chose the elf that is seated on a wrapped candy! You can see other samples of other elves if you type Elves On Christmas into the search bar on this blog (jussayin!).  I coloured the elf with Copic markers, and added a little bit of white paint pen on the wrapper to give it that transparent look.  I then fussy cut around the image so I could place it on a background I was intending to make.  

The background was made by sponging on three distress inks onto white card - Salvaged Patina, Stormy Sky, and Faded Jeans.  I trimmed it to the size I wanted, then I used a home made stencil to do some splatter technique with a white paint and watercolour brush.  After the spatters were dry, I stamped the sentiment.  The stencil is one I made myself on white card, by cutting out some swirly longish strips.  For this scene, I wanted to make it look like the swirls were magical pixie dust.  I used a glue pen and some glass glitter (Twinklets Diamond Dust) to make it look all sparkly and magical. I love the effect! 

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Elves On Christmas Clear Stamp set:

Christmas Moments Rubber Cling stamp set: 

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Gnome Warm Wishes

Here's a little Gnome Santa to ignite your imagination!  I had such a good time colouring him up and giving him a snowy winter scene.  I created a mask for him and for the candy cane, then went to work creating some "hills" with the dies shown below (I did continue the hills slightly with freehand cutting with scissors because I wanted a longer hill).  I used the die cut curves to mask off where I wanted the hills to go.  Then I sponged on some Oxide inks to bring out the hills and the sky.  After I was done the background, I took the masks off and coloured the image up with Copic markers.  The snow in the foreground was also done with the markers.  The final touches were the snowy sky and the sentiment (that sentiment is from a discontinued set).  For the snowy swirls, I had made a cardboard stencil the other day, with some swirls I had cut out, so I just re-masked Santa, and laid the homemade stencil over top, then using my Copic white paint and a watercolour brush, used the spatter technique to fill in the swirly holes of the stencil.  I added a few random spatters here and there to complete the scene.

All the product links are listed below - and If you make a purchase at Whimsy Stamps by following one of my links,  I get compensated (at no extra cost to you) even if it isn't a product from my line -  And of course I get compensated for every purchase you make from my line of images at Whimsy too.  Thank you so much for your kind support - because it means I get to continue drawing for Whimsy and having fun with all of you!

Gnome Warm Wishes clear stamp set: 

Stitched Border Die Trio:

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Christmas Critter Wishes

It is just so fun to create a scene with various Whimsy elements to help along the way!  I love love love using stencils and Oxide inks to "help" fill in the background!  I also REALLY love the new No Fuss Masks at Whimsy, gosh they make masking an image so easy peasy, and quick too! 

I coloured the image, trimmed the panel to make a square, and then proceeded to mask off where I needed.  I used a No Fuss mask on the unicorn (see below for a link!) first.  Then I masked off a curved hill near the unicorn's feet, using a die from the the Stitched Border Trio. Then, I die cut the large "Snowy Tree and placed that to the right of the image to use it as a mask; I didn't want to get any ink in that area so I had to keep it clear of colour, in the shape of a tree.  So using the die cut as a mask worked wonders for this technique!  It made it possible for me to go back in and colour up a tree, just like you see here, on the right.  I did something similar on the left with some birch tree shapes as well.  Then, Once everything was masked up where I didn't want any Oxide ink to go, I was ready to apply the Oxides.   I started with the hill behind the unicorn and birch trees.  I used Speckled Egg to sponge a bit of shadow on that hill.  Then I grabbed the Winter Wonderland Stencil and Old Paper and Shabby Shutters inks, and went to town creating the trees in the background.  I lifted off the stencil, and used some Tumbled Glass Oxide ink for the sky and I put a few bits of it here and there on the first snowy hill I had made.  After that I was able to peel almost all the masks away (except for the unicorn, I left that one on) and began colouring the two birch trees, the evergreen on the right, and the shadows on the snow in the foreground using Copic markers for all the details. 

When all the colouring was complete, I got Copic white paint and a watercolour brush, and spattered the snowflakes all over.  Once it was dry (only takes a couple minutes, it dries so fast), I peeled off the No Fuss mask from the unicorn.  I finished it off by stamping the sentiment, and then it was just a matter of layering it up and putting it on a card base. 

All the product links are listed below - and If you make a purchase at Whimsy Stamps by following one of my links,  I get compensated (at no extra cost to you) even if it isn't a product from my line -  And of course I get compensated for every purchase you make from my line of images at Whimsy too.  Thank you so much for your kind support - because it means I get to continue drawing for Whimsy and having fun with all of you!

Christmas Critter Wishes Clear Stamp set:

No Fuss Masks - Christmas Critter Wishes

Winter Wonderland 6 x 8 Stencil:

Snowy Trees die set: 

Sentiment Assortment - Merry Christmas Clear Stamp set:

Stitched Border Trio

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