One Layer Snow Day

Hello, crafting friends!

 

At the moment, there are loads of challenges encouraging us to get our stashes started for the festive season at the end of 2024. I'm in!

 

When I bought the beautiful Stencilscapes Winter layering stencil set from The Greetery in 2022, it was to make multiples - and I did. But it was always in the back of my mind that it would be fun to use just part of the stencil to create unique scenes. For this card, I wanted to include the children and the houses.

 

 

To start, I created a stencil using a large circle punch, and positioned it over a thick card base, securing it with sticky notes. The notes created a handy place for me to make a mark with a pen to align all six Winterscape stencils in the position I wanted. I used finger daubers to sponge ink through the stencils, finishing with inking round the edge of the circle punch stencil to draw the eye into the scene.

 

I finished with some details using coloured pencils and a white acrylic paint pen, and a lovely curvy sentiment from The Greetery's Catching Snowflakes which I thought was a great fit for the image.

CHALLENGES

Claire has a CAS Winter Fun theme at The Paper Players so I'm linking up there. I loved the cosy farmhouse on the Peace on Earth mood board so I'm joining in there too; Inkspirational wants to see us use more than one stencil on a project; this is also my entry at Rudolph Days where we make a Christmas card on the 25th of each month throughout the year.

 

AND IN OTHER NEWS

After a giddy moment with frost and bright sunshine, the weather has returned to what appears to be the default for the last few months:

 

I'm seriously thinking of taking the blonde bombshells to a canine beauty parlour and bringing them home as brunettes!

Sending hugs,

A snowy stenciled scene

Hello, crafting friends!

 

It's Thursday and that means there's a whole lot of new inspiration at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge! I came up with this week's board and I hope you'll love using the ideas. 

 

I chose the top row Snow/Stencil/Tree, and made a simple, one-layer Christmas card using The Greetery's Stencilscapes Winter set of layering stencils.

 

I adore the dynamic scene you can build up using these six stencils and it was surprisingly quick and easy too! Once the stencil layers were completed, I added a few details with markers and a sentiment from a Uniko set.

Okay, so now it's your turn! Which row or column has caught your eye this week? Or perhaps you are going for one of the diagonals? Do hop over to the Tic Tac Toe challenge blog and admire the samples Design Team X has made to inspire you. You'll find the Linky Tool at the bottom of the post and you can use it to share your own creation with us. Have fun!

CHALLENGES

I'm linking this card up at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown where the challenge is to use a stencil.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

I have been AWOL for a week or two after a series of unfortunate events! It started slowly with me snapping a cutting pad by using the wrong sandwich in my Big Shot; then got a bit more serious when the car needed its clutch replacing and then they discovered a whole host of other things wrong as well; and culminated in a tidy group of three with me developing a nasty flu bug and taking to my bed! Dear Eva has been a charming nursemaid though this and is positively worn out with lying on the end of my bed keeping me company!!

Sending hugs,