Peace - Sketch Frenzy Friday

It's a nice warm day today.  Actually the whole month of September has had spendid weather.  Almost too nice to be indoors getting ready for Craft shows.
This card, too, uses the Christmas Cuties stamp set - the little angel.  And she is so cute!  She reminds me of my granddaughter, who also has blonde hair and likes purple.
This card is for the sketch challenge with Sketch Frenzy Friday   

 

• I started by stamping the image using Memento ink onto Whisper White cardstock.  This little angel was coloured with a blender pen and ink pads.
• Using the ovals framelits, the image was die cut and matted withElegant Eggplant in the next larger size of the oval framelit.
• I added some dazzling diamond to the wings and her crown, and then did faux stitching around the periphery of the oval.
• The base card is Elegant Eggplant, layered with Whisper white and then Elegant Eggplant DSP.
• A Hello Yellow banner was added to the DSP layer about 2/3 of the way down the card.
• The oval focal image was adhered to the front, with the bottom edge slightly overlapping the banner.
• The sentiment "Peace" from "Good 
• Greetings" was stamped directly onto this banner.
• An angel needs sparkly things, so I punched out one dazzling diamond glimmer paper flower using the Pansy punch, and 1 gold glimmer paper flower.  For the middle I used the Petite Petal punch to punch a small flower in dazzling diamond glimmer paper.  A paper snip was used to snip between the petals of all the flowers, and the petals were slightly turned up.  They were adhered together using tombo glue, and then added to the card just slightly left of her feet

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Christmas Blessings - Mojo Monday #416

I just had to make another card featuring Christmas Cuties - this time the happy, jumping little elf.  I used the sketch challenge with Mojo Monday and it turned out to be a good match.

• I started with the image - the little jumping elf- and I coloured him with copics.  I had to put some dazzling diamonds on the fur of his hat though, as well as the bells on his attire.
• The circle framelits were used to die cut this image, as well as the 2 pieces of Home for Christmas DSP.
• Using a fine tipped pen, stitch marks were drawn around all the circles, as well as the sentiment piece.
• The card base is Real Red cardstock layered withWhisper white which had been stamped all over with Versa Mark and then dazzling diamonds added on top of that.  This makes a really sparkly background!  Too bad it doesn't show up on the picture really well.
• Across the bottom is a strip of Real Red cardstock.
• Both DSP circles are adhered directly to the cardstock, but the image circle is adhered using dimensionals.
• The sentiment piece corners were rounded using the Corner Rounder punch, and adhered to the Real Red strip using dimensionals.

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Christmas Cuties - Hand Stamped Sentiments # 221

I just love this stamp set and because I was in the mood to do some colouring, I got the set out.  The little guy in the snowsuit is just perfect for the sketch challenge with Hand Stamped Sentiments
I hate to say it, but pretty soon most of the little ones will be looking like this - all bundled up against the cold.

•  I started out by die cutting a 3 1/4" Whisper White circle using the circle framelits.
• In the middle of this circle the image of the little child in the snowsuit was stamped, using Memento ink.
• I coloured the image with copic markers, then stamped some snowflakes in Versa Mark and added dazzling diamonds.  I also added Dazzling Diamonds on the pompom of the hat, and the snow at his feet.
• This was a little difficult, but I freehanded paper piercing around the perimeter of the circle.
• In the upper left corner, I adhered 3 Home for Christmas enamel dots.

• The basic card is Cherry Cobbler cardstock, layered with Whisper White and then Home for Christmas DSP.
• In the middle I added a Dazzling Diamond glimmer paper strip, with the edges notched at both ends.  On top of that I added a smaller and longer strip of Cherry Cobbler, also with both ends notched.
• The image circle was added to the middle of the card using dimensionals.
• The sentiment was stamped on Whisper White, this being layered with Dazzling Diamond glimmer paper.  Both ends were notched.  It was adhered at the image end with tombo glue and at the other end with dimensionals.

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