Simple snowman

After a long break Loll and the team have brought back the CAS Christmas challenge where July’s theme is snowman. As I've gone die cut heavy, I’m combining with the Die Cut Divas for my second play there this month where the focus is on Christmas in July.

I die cut all the pieces for my snowman from white card and coloured with a combination of Copics and coloured pencils before assembling. As I wanted my snowman to face left and the scarf cuts with the longer bit that side, I flipped it over and smoothed down the edges with a bone folder before colouring. He has a little bit of chalk blush on his cheeks and a hand drawn smile. I used a white paint pen to make tiny dots all over his face for a slightly textured look and used Enamel Accents to make his eyes shine. The holly on his hat was stamped and fussy cut. 

Once I’d stamped the sentiment and stuck the snowman down with some scrap card underneath to raise him up just a tiny bit, I decided it needed something a little extra so tucked in some die cut snowflakes and added a few sequins. I finished off with my usual single rounded corner.

Stamps:
Christmas Sayings (Katzelkraft, no longer with us)
Christmas Joy (Crafty Secrets, no longer with us)

Paper: Bristol board

Ink: Versafine by Tsukineko (Onyx Black)

Other:
Cool Yule dies (Tim Holtz/Sizzix)
Snowflake die (Waltzingmouse Stamps, no longer with us)
Copic markers
Coloured pencils
Posca paint pen (white)
Enamel Accents by Ranger (black)
Clear iridescent sequins
Black fineliner
Corner Chomper

Ornamental

I’m playing again at the Lost Coast Designs Christmas in July challenge and this time I’ve combined with the current challenge at Retro Rubber where we have a sketch to play with and Die Cut Divas who are also focusing on Christmas in July.

I thought it might be fun to put the Bubbles Border stamp to a different use and decided to use it as a pattern on some Christmas ornaments. The dies are really light bulbs but I figured if I only used the solid layer, they’d double up as teardrop ornaments. 

A combination of gold embossing, red watercolour paint, Wink of Stella, Glossy Accents and some tiny nail art gems makes for richly textured and opulent little baubles! I stamped and gold embossed the border and then die cut the parts of the pattern that seemed to fit best. I got six out of the border so I have another three to play with another time.

The square elements of the sketch are hand drawn with a copper gel pen, the ornaments are raised just a tiny bit with some card scraps and I tied some crochet thread through the hanger of each. I did stamp the sentiment directly on the card base but I managed to then drop the stamp back onto it so rather than start the card again, I stamped onto a slightly modified die cut and used that. I added a couple of decorative score lines to add a bit of interest to the white space of the sketch and gently rounded both corners (yes both, unusual for me!).

Stamps:
Bubbles Border (Lost Coast Designs, I’ve had mine since 2011)
Branch of pine small and Sentiment (Lesia Zgharda)

Paper: Bristol board

Ink:
Versamark by Tsukineko
Memento Luxe by Tsukineko (Love Letter)
Tim Holtz Distress ink by Ranger (Pine Needles)

Other:
String of lights dies (MFT)
Detail gold embossing powder
Watercolour (Winsor & Newton)
Wink of Stella (clear)
Glossy Accents by Ranger
Nail art gems
Crochet thread
Stitched rectangle dies A6 size (Paper Rose)
Corner Chomper 

Thanks for stopping by! Links to all the challenges if you would like to play along with any of them:

Bearing gifts

All the Christmas in July challenges are helping to boost my little stash but I couldn't let the month go by without playing at Christmas Kickstart where it's Christmas all year round and I've been good about my aim to join each month so far! This month's theme is “grace us with your presents” — focus on gifts.

The Santa and gift images are from a set that was a freebie with a magazine, I think they’re rather sweet. I’ve kept the treatment sweet and simple too, stamping, simple masking and colouring with pencils. The addition of a few sequins is the only concession to anything not purely “old skool”!

Stamps:

Santa Stamp Here (freebie set with Making Cards & Papercraft Magazine)

Christmas Sayings (Katzelkraft, no longer with us)

Paper:

Bristol board

Ink:

Versafine by Tsukineko (Onyx Black)

Memento Luxe by Tsukineko (Love Letter)

Other:

Coloured pencils

Pan Pastel (Phthalo Green Tint)

Clear iridescent sequins

Corner Chomper

If you’re looking to boost your stash of Christmas cards now we’re on the downhill stretch, why not come and play along?

Under the mistletoe

It’s July so of course there are plenty of Christmas challenges out in blogland! I’m joining in at Lost Coast Designs and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers with this one.

Frankenstein’s monster is hoping for a smooch under the mistletoe, even if it doesn’t end in him finding his bride. He was too busy finding the shiniest berries to get round to the housework though so anyone puckering up will have to excuse the massive cobweb!

I love the fact the Festive Foliage stamp set included the Mwah! sentiment to go alongside the mistletoe image.

Stamps: 
Frankenstein (Carmen’s Veranda)
Festive Foliage (Waltzingmouse Stamps, no longer with us)

Paper:
Bristol board
Smooth black

Ink:
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Graphite Black)
Tim Holtz Distress ink by Ranger (Weathered Wood)

Other:
Stencil by Tim Holtz (Shattered)
Copic markers
Glossy Accents 

Christmas in July with SSS!

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers invited me along as guest designer this month — thanks girls! 

We're celebrating Christmas in July and Edna is in a festive mood. My ostrich appreciates the sandy setting but he's a bit worried that there might be nothing for him in those piles of gifts, he certainly thinks he might be on Santa's naughty list!

The string of lights is from an old magazine freebie set and it didn't stamp all that cleanly so I gave it some assistance with a fineliner. I used a silver pen at the top of each bulb, coloured them with a Copic and gave each one a little halo of coloured light with some chalk before adding a “catchlight” dot to each with a white paint pen.

The ostrich has been at the green feather dye as he thought it would look quite festive with his borrowed Santa hat. His faint shadow is courtesy of a bit of chalk.

I've finally managed to get my hands on the Katzelkraft Christmas Sayings set. I could only find it stocked at a US store (Topflight Stamps) that doesn't ship to the UK. Hubby just visited his son in Canada though so I got them shipped there and he brought them home for me (plus a couple of other things to help make the shipping fee more justifiable!). Hooray!

Stamps:
Ostrich, Funny Accessories and Christmas Sayings (all Katzlekraft, no longer with us)
Magazine freebie Christmas set 

Paper: 
Bristol board
Scrap of smooth black

Ink: Brilliance by Tsukineko (Graphite Black)

Other:
Coloured pencils
Copic markers
Bright white embossing powder (Wow!)
Chalk
White and Silver paint pens (Posca)
Corner Chomper

Thanks for stopping by! If you're making festive cards (snarky if that takes your fancy but any Christmas cards are welcome) why not play along with the Sisterhood:

 

Scrappy snowflakes

The challenge on Sundays at Splitcoast Stampers is always a “featured stamper” one — the idea is to have a look at the chosen stamper’s gallery and pick a card for inspiration to make your own. I don’t often get to play along but things worked out this weekend and I decided to combine and make a second card for the “snow day” theme at Christmas Kickstart.

Maja was the chosen stamper this week. Her “scrappy” style couldn’t be much more different to my usual but I couldn’t resist having a go, perhaps because it was well outside my comfort zone and that’s what makes a challenge a challenge, right?

I made the background paper with ink and some faint snowflakes (stamped with acrylic paint). The edges are sponged with a darker grey with the hanging stars at the top stamped in the same ink. The ground is swiped direct to paper with a Distress pad. 

The embellishments are very much based on the inspiration card I chose from Maja’s gallery although mine are made from layers of kraft cardstock (hers are wooden shapes).The punched circle was covered with double sided tape and very fine glitter burnished on there. The wee bear is stamped, he had a touch of pencil colouring before being fussy cut and finally there’s a sprinkle of Enamel Accents dots.

Stamps:
Polar Bear Pals (MFT)
Magazine cover mount from Craft Stamper (Nov 2012!)
Grunge Flakes (Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous)

Paper:
Bristol board
Kraft

Ink:
Tim Holtz Distress ink by Ranger (Iced Spruce, Walnut Stain)
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Graphite Black)
Hero Arts Shadow ink (Charcoal, Soft Granite)

Other:
Coloured pencils
White acrylic paint
Gauze
White crochet thread
Star punch (Fiskars)
Circle punch (Fiskars)
Snowflake die (Waltzingmouse Stamps, no longer with us)
Glamour Dust by Deco Art (Crystal)
White Enamel Accents by Ranger

Thanks for stopping by! There’s still a week or more to play at Christmas Kickstart if you’re trying to build up a bit of a buffer ahead of time!

Cooling snow

It’s getting a bit warm again here in the UK so the current Christmas Kickstart challenge theme seems perfect if you need to visualise cooler things — Jo and this month’s elf, Caroline, are taking a snow day.

I’ve gone in for a close up with my card and featured three detailed individual flakes on an inky background. It proved extremely difficult to photograph this today so I've done a "flat lay" photo as well since the flakes show better that way (but look very dull). The flakes are a lovely silver but apparently too reflective for today's lighting conditions and my camera! If you combine the two images in your head you’ll probably arrive at something close to the reality of it.

The inks were just applied by smooshing them on there with a piece of acetate and the flakes are embossed with silver powder once the background was dry. 

A stamped sentiment to finish and you’re done — a nice quick card with a short supplies list! Ink smooshing means no two cards will ever be exactly the same so this would be quite a nice design to make multiples; you could leave the flakes stamps set up in your stamping platform but the background would mean each card was unique. Just don't try photographing them on a sunny day!

Stamps:

Grunge Flakes (Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous)
Noel (Waltzingmouse Stamps, no longer with us)

Paper: cold press watercolour

Ink: 
Tim Holtz Distress ink by Ranger (Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean)
Versamark by Tsukineko 

Other:
Detail embossing powder (silver)
Corner Chomper  

Thanks for stopping by!

No Peeking

The theme at Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers this month is gnomes. As I got an idea in my head that I thought would work best with more than one gnome, I finally caved in and got some more gnome stamps. Pointy Hat Gnome has long been the sole representative of his clan and he's a bit too big for multiples to feature comfortably on a standard card! I picked up somebody’s crafty de-stash set on eBay featuring some of his smaller brethren.

They may not look threatening but gnomes can be a determined bunch — perfect for protecting the gift pile and making sure there’s no peeking before the big day! Gnomeland Security is a serious business and they’re not about to stand for any funny stuff. Head gnome Herbert is raised up a little (courtesy of some card scraps) just to reinforce his status, especially as he’s not the biggest gnome on the block.

 

I think this could work for Christmas or birthday as the gnomes are not in traditional festive colours. Funny how you see things on the photo that you’ve not noticed “in person” — I’m thinking I’ll go back in with a fineliner and make their little eye dots black since I stamped with a dark brown ink, I think it might bring a little more character to their faces.

 

Stamps: 

Christmas Gnomes (Paper Boutique) 

Funny Accessories (Katzelkraft, no longer with us) 

 

Paper: Bristol board

 

Ink: Adirondack by Ranger (Espresso)

 

Other:

Copic markers
White paint pen (Posca)

Computer generated sentiment 

Corner chomper

Here’s the link to the challenge with all the details, there are still a few days to play: 

Christmas Kickstart — mid month already!

My first card for this month’s Christmas Kickstart challenge featured a robin in snow. For my mid-month card I thought I’d keep the snow but switch to a rather different bird so may I present: penguins in snow! 

Cute as they may be, they presented a serious challenge when it came to photography — for some reason they absolutely did not want to be captured for posterity. I had four separate photoshoots with them and realised when I deleted all the photos off the camera having finally got a usable one that there were 84 pictures 😱 

The penguins were stamped on white, coloured with pencils and fussy cut. I stamped the image on the black panel as well and added heat embossing for the flakes above their heads and the snow around their feet. Some white pencil adds a bit extra snowiness and a die cut flake gives the sentiment a bit of a lift.

Stamps:
Bundled penguins (Stampendous)
Merriest Christmas Wishes (Hero Arts)

Paper:
Bristol board , smooth black

Ink:
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Graphite Black)
Memento Luxe by Tsukineko (Love Letter)

Other:
Coloured pencils
Detail white embossing powder (Wow)
Snowflake die (Waltzingmouse Stamps, no longer with us)
Stitched rectangle die A6 size (Paper Rose, one die cut modified to fit a longer sentiment)

Thanks for stopping by! Jo and I would love for you to come and join us with your festive birds if you’re getting ahead with your Christmas cards:

 

 

Robin in the snow

I’m delighted to be undertaking elfin duties at Christmas Kickstart this month, especially as the theme is right up my alley — thanks for inviting me Jo! I think bird images are beaten into second place only after florals in my stamping stash so Season’s Tweetings is perfect for me to don the pointy ears and elf hat and join Jo in celebrating birds in winter!

As the current We Love Stamping challenge is All Creatures Great and Small I’m joining in there, too.

I had a new robin image waiting to see ink for the first time so he came out to play. They’re lovely to see all year round but really come into their own in winter, supplying that little flash of vivid colour when everything can seem a bit drab and monochrome. 

Linda has been using some pretty ombre card bases recently — perhaps those were in my mind when I sat down to make this as I used some Pan Pastels to create a soft ombre winter sky for my robin. The gentle snow is just paint pen dots and splodges and I added a tiny bit of snow to the branch with the same pen. The robin is coloured with pencils and as I stamped in a brown ink I used a fineliner to make his beady little eye black. A nice big sentiment and my usual rounded corner finish it off. Light and flat for easy mailing!

Stamps:
Into the Wild (Katzelkraft, no longer with us)
Noel (Waltzingmouse Stamps, no longer with us)

Paper:
Bristol board

Ink:
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Pearlescent Chocolate)
Memento Luxe by Tsukineko (Love Letter)

Other:
Coloured pencils
Pan Pastel (Pthalo Green Tint, Turquoise, Blue)
Paint pen by Posca (White)
Corner Chomper
Black fineliner

We’d love for you to join us with some wintery bird life on your cards, here’s the challenge link, it would be great to see you there!

Thanks for stopping by!

  

The juggling gnome

The current challenges at Christmas Kickstart, Lost Coast Designs and Time Out combined in my head to make this! While hats (CK) lead naturally to  thoughts of gnomes (LCD), the sweet treats called for at Time Out maybe weren't such an obvious fit. I woke up thinking about gnomes juggling candy canes or peppermint candies and decided to see if I could make it happen!

PH gnome usually has his hands by his sides — not an obvious position for juggling. I stamped and cut him out, performing some micro surgery by cutting off his arms and then drawing new ones for him on the card base. He's obviously come to no harm since he's managing to juggle five objects, no problem.

I had no candy cane or peppermint candy images in my stash so I took a deep breath and drew one. Having managed one that looked OK, I scribbled on the back and transferred it five times to some cardstock, coloured and cut them out.

I used my long-neglected Pan Pastels to give a tiny bit of background colour, stuck down gnome and candies, stamped a sentiment and scribbled a little bit of snow under his feet with Enamel accents then sprinkled on some glitter. A fineliner border gives a bit of definition between the die cut panel and the card base.

Stamps:
Pointy Hat Gnome (Lost Coast Designs)
Sentiment from Foxy Christmas (Woodware)

Paper:
Bristol board

Ink:
Tim Holtz Distress ink by Ranger (Antique Linen)
Memento Luxe by Tsukineko (Love Letter)

Other:
Stitched rectangles A6 size dies (Paper Rose)
Coloured pencils
Pan Pastel (Pthalo Green Tint)
Enamel Accents by Ranger (White)
Glamour Dust by DecoArt (Crystal)
Black fineliner

 Thanks for stopping by!

Brimming over with joy

This month's theme at Christmas Kickstart (where host Jo is being ably assisted by elf Gail) is hats — hats on their own, hats on people, hats on critters — if it's Christmassy and there's a hat involved you're good to go!

Retro Rubber are playing tic tac toe and it's a wintery one as things got out of kilter with their enforced change of platform so I'm playing there too — right hand column (tag, holly, rhinestones) and also bottom row (die cut, snow, rhinestones). The holly and the rhinestones are both tiny but they're there on the snowman's hat band. The Hero Arts set (holly and sentiment stamps, word die cut) has been in my collection since 2017 I think.

This is the first outing for the snowman die from the Cool Yule set. I went very much my own way though — I used the nose intended for Santa to make a tangerine rather than a carrot nose, didn’t use the monocle and replaced the star accent for the hat with some stamped and fussy cut holly with tiny gem berries. The eyes are Enamel Accents, I drew on a wiggly mouth and he’s wearing the scarf that belongs to the reindeer in the set rather than his own bow tie!

Stamps:
Joy Stamp & Cut (Hero Arts, had mine since 2017)

Paper: Bristol board

Ink:
Memento Luxe by Tsukineko (Love Letter)

Other:
Cool Yule dies (Tim Holtz/Sizzix)
Softly Falling embossing folder (Stampin' Up!, retired)
Tags dies (Tim Holtz/Sizzix)
Copic markers
White pencil
Posca pain pen (white)
Enamel Accents by Ranger (black)
Nail art gems
Black fineliner
Corner Chomper

Thanks for stopping by!

A woodland Christmas

The current challenge at Christmas Kickstart has us coming Out of the Woods. As soon as I saw the theme I knew I wanted to christen this stamp set and in particular this handsome stag. When I then saw We Love Stamping has a wildlife theme I knew it was meant to be.

This is very nearly a one layer card, just the sentiment strip is separate. I stamped and masked the stag, used a circle mask and stamped the pine bough and berry sprig then inked over with some Bundled Sage Distress ink. I remember seeing somebody (not sure if it was a member of the Katzelkraft DT) use the pine and berry stamps to make a sort of designer paper. It looked lovely so I took the same sort of approach here. I stamped in red and then went over the stems with a dark brown fineliner, intensified the berry colour with a Copic and added tiny white paint pen highlights. 

I then swapped to a circle stencil and added some blue around the stag. Everything is coloured with a mixture of Copics and pencils. I used a copper gel pen to doodle and give the circle some definition and also used it along the edges of the sentiment strip.

Stamps:
Out of the Wild (Katzelkraft, no longer with us)
Vintage Christmas Expressions (Cornish Heritage Farms, no longer with us)

Paper:
Bristol board

Ink:
Versafine by Tsukineko (Onyx Black)
Tim Holtz Distress ink by Ranger (Tumbled Glass, Bundled Sage)
Adirondack by Ranger (Red Pepper)
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Pearlescent Ivy)

Other:
Coloured pencils
Copic markers
Spica glitter pen (green)
Copper gel pen
White paint pen (Posca)
Black fineliner

Here are the challenges if anyone would like to play along too!

 

 

Cold toes?

I had a plan for joining in at the current Lost Coast Designs challenge where the team would like us to make it funny. Then I saw the current Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge theme of Cold and this idea popped into my head and refused to go away until an attempt at making it had happened! The original idea might still get a look in before the month ends, we’ll see.

It’s a version of an age old joke but I thought the expression on the dog’s face fit it perfectly, poor wee thing! Wording is computer generated, it’s a bit situation-specific for anyone to make a stamp, I reckon! Torn paper snow, paint pen dots (I probably should have splattered but I didn’t think of that in time!) and my usual rounded corner finish it off.

Stamps:
Pointy Hat Gnome (Lost Coast Designs)
Les Chiens (Katzelkraft, no longer with us)

Paper:
Kraft, scrap of white

Ink:
Versafine by Tsukineko (Onyx Black)

Other:
Coloured pencils
White paint pen (Posca)
Corner Chomper
Black fineliner

Deck the halls

A second card for the February Christmas Kickstart challenge where we've been invited to a sing-a-long! I'm combining with Retro Rubber this time who are back after a break while they changed platform. Use stamps older than a year and you can play along, too!

This turned out a bit rustic, a bit vintage but quite festive, I think. Retro Rubber has a tic tac toe challenge at the moment — I chose the middle line of kraft, free choice (I went with fussy cutting), embossing. I think my song for Christmas Kickstart is reasonably obvious!

After fussy cutting the stamped holly, I decided the card needed something a bit extra. Although it's at a different scale I thought the die cut holly sprig worked OK and it had the advantage that the leaves were small enough I could overlap the sprig onto the sentiment panel without obscuring any of the pretty lettering. I hand drew the veins so it was closer to the style of the stamped holly.

I've given the lettering a tiny bit of sparkle by using a Spica glitter pen to trace over the edges of the stamping.

Distress ink in Antique Linen always goes well with kraft and it just softens the edges of the white sentiment panel a bit. 

Stamps:
Noel (Waltzingmouse Stamps, no longer with us —  I've had the set at least a decade)
Holly (magazine freebie stamp, I've had it at least five years)

Paper:
Kraft
Bristol board
Black

Ink:
Memento Luxe (Love Letter)
Tim Holtz Distress ink by Ranger (Antique Linen)
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Pearlescent Chocolate)

Other:
Moonlit berries embossing folder (Couture Creations)
Square Nestabilities by Spellbinder
Copic markers
Red Spica glitter pen
Christmas roses dies (Sue Wilson/Creative Expressions) 

 Thanks for Stopping by!

All together now...

This month Christmas Kickstart is inviting us to a sing-a-long - make a card inspired by a Christmas song or carol. I'd recently found this little sentiment stamp (it's so old I don't remember where it came from; it's grey rubber and I have a very faint bell in my head that says Elzybells but if anyone knows, shout out!). 

The sentiment was really crying out for an image with two or more characters and when I remembered this jolly little crew tucked down the side of the Christmas supplies box they seemed like good candidates.

We recently visited a National Trust property (Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire, worth a visit if you're in the area) and they had some lovely cards in the gift shop that had a slightly debossed area for the image. I figured I should be able to do that to add subtle interest to a one layer card. Took me a while to work it out but I got there in the end!

I cut some lightweight chipboard with a rectangle die and used a bit of low tack tape to keep it centred on the card front then turned it over and ran a stylus round the edge. I did it on a blank card base so that if I messed up, I hadn't ruined a carefully coloured image!

Image is coloured with Copics and topped up with just a few pencil details and some copper gel pen for the stars on some of the packages. 

Stamps:
Holly Jolly (Penny Johnson/Stampavie)
Sentiment stamp unknown (possibly very old Elzybells)

Paper:
Bristol board

Ink:
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Graphite Black)

Other:
Copic markers 
Black fineliner
Coloured pencils
Copper gel pen

 

 

Pretty in (festive) pink

I got an idea into my head for another way to play along with the Christmas Kickstart Dreaming of a Pink Christmas challenge. Several frustrating hours later, the initial idea was a distant memory and the lovely piece of alcohol ink background (with silver mixative) I’d made was die cut into several baubles. Even then, only one of them made it onto the final card. Maybe pink and what was essentially a piece of patterned paper was just toooo far out of my comfort zone!

I wanted a skinny frame and didn’t have anything suitable so I used nesting rectangle dies, found it still wasn’t really skinny enough so trimmed a bit off the outer edge. I found some washi tape that has an interesting “tarnished silver” look to it and used that to cover the frame.

The branch is built up of one small stamp used several times to make a larger bough. I added a few freehand extras as well, just to fill it out a bit. My go-to embellishment of tiny nail art gems make an appearance in two shades of pink and three sizes.

Still not quite convinced I like this but it might grow on me.

Stamps:
Noel (Waltzingmouse Stamps, no longer with us)
Christmas Joy (Crafty Secrets, no longer with us)

Paper:
Bristol board
Pale pink glossy

Ink:
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide (Picked Raspberry)
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Pearlescent Ivy)

Other:
Coloured pencils
Silver leafing pen (Krylon)
Stitched rectangle dies A6 size (Paper Rose)
Vintage Ornament die (Impression Obsession, no longer with us)
Copic Various refills (Fucshia and Sugared Almond Pink)
Silver Mixative (Ranger)
Washi tape

Pink Christmas

It might seem odd that my first card of 2026 is a Christmas card but I’m going to make a determined effort to play along with Christmas Kickstart this year so I hope I’m starting as I mean to go on. Jo’s guest elf this month is the lovely Chris Lawler who has chosen a colour theme — pink! Not a colour I naturally gravitate to but I did my best to embrace it!

The Christmas wording dies got their first outing here so I’m playing at Die Cut Divas too where the theme is New. Although I’ve had them a while this is the first time I’ve even opened the packaging so I hope that counts! I used them to cut hot pink glitter card to stick to an inky background then stood my fussy cut bear on top of the wording, I hope she's light enough on her feet not to squash it! 

I sprinkled a few tiny die cut stars and some white pen dots around the place, mounted with a broad border and called it done. The confetti die used for the stars is ancient (I’ve had it at least ten years) but very useful! The bear’s raised paw has a couple of layers of cardstock scraps behind it so it’s a got just a wee bit of dimension.

Stamps:
Polar Bear Pals (MFT)

Paper:
Pink glitter card 
Bristol board 

Ink: 
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Graphite Black)
Momento Luxe by Tsukineko (Rosebud)
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide by Ranger (Picked Raspberry)
Adirondack by Ranger (Raspberry)

Other:
Stylish Script Christmas Wishes dies  (Lisa Horton for Creative Expressions)
Confetti die (Mama Elephant)
Stitched rectangle dies A6 size (Paper Rose)
Copic markers
Posca paint pen (white)

Thanks for stopping by!