Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Hello, crafting friends!

 

I've been using up some more snippets today in my quest to get some more Christmas cards made. 

 

 

This panel of designer paper from UK store The Works was a left over piece. It was tall enough to fit an A6 card front but not wide enough, but I thought it would make a nice vertical panel with white margins either side. At first I couldn't figure out where a sentiment would work but then I realised that if I turned the snippet upside down; then the main 'star' would be in a better place for a scene and the sentiment could go at the top!

 

 

I tore a sticky note, held it in place over the designer paper and sponged in a hill just below the star using black ink. To emphasise it, I sponged a tiny bit of white craft ink above the hill line. The shepherd and a sheep were die cut from white snippets using a nativity set from Gemini. I cut a couple of extra sheep, so my shepherd could be watching a flock by night rather than just the one! They were coloured with markers and attached to the panel, with the shepherd and one of the sheep popped up on dimensional pads.

 

The sentiment is from Hope and Peace by Stampin' Up, stamped on the DSP with versamark and heat embossed in white. Finally, the panel was glued to a card base.

CHALLENGES

I used a left over snippet of designer paper and some snippets of white card for this card so I'm off to The Snippets Playground with it in my satchel; I'm also joining in with Try it on Tuesday where the theme is Traditional Christmas;  The optional theme at Happy Little Stampers Christmas is Festive Animals - as it is also at Double D, so I'm linking up there too.

 

AND IN OTHER NEWS

I have taken Lulu to a fenced off wooded area which runs alongside a field which is home to sheep for much of the year. She hasn't come across sheep before and predictably she was quite excited by the them, possibly thinking they were some kind of weird dogs! This was where Eva had her 'Leave It!' training with sheep and I hope it works as well for Lulu! Naturally I would never let her off lead in a field with sheep in it but you have to train for all eventualities. Once, when Eva was a pup, we were walking on a familiar path and found that a couple of ewes had escaped from their field. Thanks to her training, Eva was able to cope well with what could have been a difficult situation.

Sending hugs,