Winter birds

When I created my recent Hugs card, I used only the central part of my glittery texture paste panel and decided I could use the left-over frame on another card. So here it is.

I used stamps from a Hunkydory set to create my little scene within my frame. I started by stamping the penguin's sweater in Eucalyptus ink (Catherine Pooler), masking it before stamping the penguin and the other images and sentiment in black Archival ink. I coloured my images using Prismacolor pencils and then foam mounted my glittery frame. Easy peasy. Another card for my Christmas stash.

I'm playing at:

Jingle Belles - Rockin' Robin (or more generally: Birds)

Allsorts - #512 Feathered friends

SSS Wednesday - Cute

Winter Wonderland - Fuzzy wuzzy

Hero Arts - National Craft Month
(colouring with pencils)

Since it's the end of the month, it's also time

 for the March Rudolph Days, 

which is hosted by Maureen (Scrappymo)

Faux stained glass 2

For this card, I created the faux stained glass look using glossy accents onto an ink blended background. After creating my faux stained glass, I added a black layer on top and then repositioned my original die cut panel over my ink blended panel, using an embossing stylus to go around the layered die cuts to make sure it sat snugly around my flowers.

I'm playing at:

CAS Mix Up - Stamping, faux stained glass, ink blending, die cutting

Uniko - #52 Spring

Alphabet challenge - Z for Zesty colours

JUG - #480 Photo week

(I went with the bright colours of the balloons)

Faux stained glass 1

I created a faux stained window by heat embossing part of my NBUS Arabesque Medallion stamp (Altenew) in rose gold ep (SSS) onto vellum and colouring on the back using Promarkers (Limited Edition sets).

I'm playing at:

CAS Mix Up - Stamping, Faux stained glass,
heat embossing, colouring, die cutting

Sweet Stampin' - Anything goes (no Shakespeare for me)

I love Promarkers - #380 Anything goes