A snippety nativity

Hello, crafting friends!

 

With all the focus on my daughter's wedding this year, normal crafting patterns have gone out of the window, but I realise that my task from now on is to enlarge my festive card stash!

 

This card was made using the plain side of Funky Fossil's Arched Window stencil, masked at the bottom to shorten it - and at the sides to prevent ink from smudging onto the card base (why do I always imagine I can skip that step?!) I also made a star mask with a sticky note and a star stamp and positioned it before blending brown, yellow and blue inks into the stencil.

 

The sentiment is from The Best Gift of All by Reverse Confetti and was stamped in crisp black ink in the centre of the ink blend. I had planned to leave the star uncoloured when I removed its mask but it didn't look right so I coloured it with a coloured pencil and embellished it with a clear gem.

 

And now for the fun bit: the idea for this card came when I was making another card using The Greetery's Slim Alphabet dies. while clearing the left overs away, I noticed that the inside of an 'O' and a 'K' turned onto its side looked a bit like a manger. I coloured them and trimmed the 'K' slightly and I think it works quite well - what do you think?

CHALLENGES

I'm linking this card up at Addicted to Stamps and More where the theme is Die Cuts and/or Stencils, and I've used both; Little Red Wagon where we are to choose to make a Christmas or a New Year project; Happy Little Stampers Christmas challenge, where the optional theme is twinkle; and The Snippets Playground, where I hope my alphabet offcuts will be enough to count as snippets!

AND IN OTHER NEWS

The wedding was a bohemian affair with wild flowers in jam jars, hay bales to sit on and dogs mingling with the guests, but there was a very fancy photographer there - which is just as well because I was too busy to take any photos! But here is a snap I took of my beautiful daughter before the wedding, with her hair and make up freshly done, in her wedding gown, casually sitting on the door step stroking Eva!!!

 

No harm done thank goodness, but this is typical - she is not one for wearing clothes that need to be worn with care and it didn't take long for those elegant ballet slippers to be kicked off either I can tell you! (She is rather like her fluffy sister in that respect!) I'll be posting more wedding-related stuff this week so do come back and share it with me :)

Sending hugs,