By The Cute And Girly - part #2
My second project for this month's theme 'Christmas Girls' over at By The Cute And Girly.
This card started out due to the beautiful big sleigh stamp from Papermania and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to have it for Tilda! I've paper pieced it using Milton & Co and kraft paper, then coloured the remaining images with Distress Ink and a silver gel pen. I have one of the new sitting Tildas on order to sit in the sleigh, but as she wouldn't arrive in time I used one of my older ones and coloured her with Copics.
The image is stamped several times and layered up. Once it was all assembled the white background looked too stark, so to bring it into the picture I splodged some diluted blue Distress Ink around to colour it.
Once Tilda was done I was thinking about some ideas for how to make her up into a card. In the chocolate issue of Magnolia Ink there was an easel card with cup cakes at the front and when I saw that I decided to go for the pile of parcels idea. They're made from mini raisin boxes covered with the Milton & Co paper and some thin ribbon.
A bit of embellishing with punched shapes and a greeting was all that was needed to finish off except the parcels did look a bit bare. I decided to copy the parcel Tilda was holding and took ages to find the right size hearts that had a bit of dimension. In the end I found an old sheet of Paperchase stickers with a few hearts left on it in just the right colour.
I'm definitely entering this one at some challenges:
Just Magnolia #130 - Christmas is coming
Magnolia-licious Highlites - Santa's sleigh photo inspiration
Allsorts #127 - Christmas easel card
Try It On Tuesday - Unusual shaped card
Don't forget to check out the By The Cute And Girly challenge blog and share your 'Christmas Girls' with us.
This card started out due to the beautiful big sleigh stamp from Papermania and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to have it for Tilda! I've paper pieced it using Milton & Co and kraft paper, then coloured the remaining images with Distress Ink and a silver gel pen. I have one of the new sitting Tildas on order to sit in the sleigh, but as she wouldn't arrive in time I used one of my older ones and coloured her with Copics.
The image is stamped several times and layered up. Once it was all assembled the white background looked too stark, so to bring it into the picture I splodged some diluted blue Distress Ink around to colour it.
Once Tilda was done I was thinking about some ideas for how to make her up into a card. In the chocolate issue of Magnolia Ink there was an easel card with cup cakes at the front and when I saw that I decided to go for the pile of parcels idea. They're made from mini raisin boxes covered with the Milton & Co paper and some thin ribbon.
A bit of embellishing with punched shapes and a greeting was all that was needed to finish off except the parcels did look a bit bare. I decided to copy the parcel Tilda was holding and took ages to find the right size hearts that had a bit of dimension. In the end I found an old sheet of Paperchase stickers with a few hearts left on it in just the right colour.
I'm definitely entering this one at some challenges:
Just Magnolia #130 - Christmas is coming
Magnolia-licious Highlites - Santa's sleigh photo inspiration
Allsorts #127 - Christmas easel card
Try It On Tuesday - Unusual shaped card
Don't forget to check out the By The Cute And Girly challenge blog and share your 'Christmas Girls' with us.
** Kate **
Comments
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Debby
Loving the little parcels great finishing touch!!
Thanks for joining in our Christmas Easel Card challenge at Allsorts
Emma xxx
Cindy Porter
http://cardcrazeeme53.blogspot.com/
Hugz Fleur xXx
Mina xxx
So glad that you entered our Christmas easel challenge this week and good luck in the draw!
Love Nicola xxx