Squirrels and Snow Ladies

Hello, Tuesday and Hello, Blogging Friends. I'm posting to share 2 cards today. One is a Valentine and the other is a Christmas card.

 

First, the Valentine: I used this sketch by Lucy Chesna of My SketchWorld sized to A2. 

Supplies Used:

Office Depot card stock for base, heart mat and sentiment

SU black card stock

Graph paper for inside liner

DCWV patterned paper

Decorative paper heart ephemera and ribbon and mylar hearts confetti from my stash

Stamps: Gerda Steiner, Papertrey Ink, Clear Dollar, Cornish Heritage Farms, Artistic Outpost, K&C0 Brenda Walton, Bo Bunny

Inks: Ranger Archival Thistle

Dies: Gerda Steiner, Clear Dollar

Spectrum Noir alcohol markers

I really love these colors. The card began with the heart. I saw it in my stash and said let's use this. I was lucky to find the paper after just a few seconds of searching. I matted the heart on card stock and fussy cut a white border. I like the way I've accented with white AND black. 

 

The inside and back of the card: I used my scraps to make the back. Added a liner to the inside just for grins,

A close-up of the beautiful patterned paper - hard to photograph all the lovely!

Linking Up To These Challenges:
1. My SketchWorld Facebook Card Challenge
2. Gerda Steiner Monthly Share Your GSDesigns - I used the squirrels from the Fall in Love set
3. ABMTTC #85: AG
4. CHNPPC Feb: AG with Patterned Papers
5. Brown Sugar #287: St. Valentine's Day
6. Colour Crazy Wk 5: AG with Colouring - I used Spectrum Noirs to color the squirrels
7. Jo's Scrap Shack #268: AG
8. TTCRD for week of 2/12: Always AG
9. 2 Crafty Critter Crazies #23: AG with a Critter - mine are squirrels
10. C4C#470: Make a Valentine Card
11. 613 Avenue Create #218: AG + Opt. Twist Use a Critter - I used squirrels

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 Next up is my Christmas card. AND NO SKETCH - GASP! haha For years I've been wanting to try one of these telescoping cards and now I have. This is it closed up. I can now say, been there, done that. May make another someday but not any time soon! It did a number on my concentration, as once again, I chose to figure it out organically and not find a tutorial. I got through it really without any mistakes, but it's a finicky card that requires being careful with more so than a regular card. I decided to make it for my mother-in-law as she loves these kinds of decorations for the holidays.

Supplies Used:
Michael's Recollections Heavy Duty and Office Depot card stocks
Colorbok Patterned Paper card stock
Stamps: Flourishes, Papertrey Ink
Inks: Ranger Archival
Dies: Sizzix, Lil B, Spellbinders, MFT
1-1/4" circle punch
Spectrum Noir alcohol markers
Misc: enamel dots, googly eyes, ribbon, brads from my stash

 And here is the front of it, opened. I chose to make a Snow LADY because, well, don't think I've ever seen anyone do that! I had a leftover piece of die cut scallop and colored it for her hair. I used a Sizzix butter dish die for the hat and MFT sequin dies for the buttons. I also used both plain circle dies and scalloped ones, by Lil B and Spellbinders.

Showing the back as I took great care to make it neat and tidy. You can see my only mistake - adhering the back panel of the bottom circle too soon, so I had to hide that last brad with a punched and colored circle on sticker paper. It looks like a bunny tail! Haha - perfect caption for this view is, does that bunny tail make my butt look too big?

Linking Up to These Challenges:
1. Jingle Belles JB19:03 Make a Shaped Card
2. Winter Wonderland: Anything Christmas Goes & Tribute to Eileen
3. MLCCB #7: ACG
4. Crafting From The Heart #236: Always AG
5. LTCCB #31: Always AG
6. HLS Anything Goes with Dies

7. Crafts Galore Encore #60: AG

That's it for me today - whew! Have a wonderful evening. Thanks for stopping by and I'll be back tomorrow, xoxoxo