MFT Sketch 258

Time for a new sketch from MFT.



I just had to use these adorable new elephants from Birdie Brown.  We needed a birthday card for one of Carina's classmates, so I added a little gift from the Santa's Elves set.  The elephant and gift were die cut, but I wanted a nice clean line where they touch the sentiment banner, so I did a bit of fussy cutting on the bottom portion of those pieces.



Since I still need some Christmas cards I thought it would be fun to duplicate the card, change up the colors/patterns/sentiment.



Works just as well for Christmas, no?

OK, head over to the blog to see what the rest of the team made.  Hope that you'll play along this week!

BB Adorable Elephants	BB Santa's Elves	BB Toasty Greetings	BB Birthday Bears
Die-namics BB Adorable Elephants	Die-namics BB Santa's Elves	Die-namics Blueprints 25	Fresh Squeezed Chevron Paper Pack
Homespun Gingham Paper Pack	Smooth White Card Stock	Sweet Tooth Card Stock	Stone Gray Prestige Card Stock
Steel Grey Card Stock	Electric Red Heavyweight Card Stock	Gumdrop Green Card Stock	Die-namics Pinking Edge Circle STAX
Circle STAX Set 1 Die-namics	Hybrid Ink Pad Black Licorice

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12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist

Hey everyone!  I'm thrilled to be participating in Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist event as a guest designer.

I just love the Essentials by Ellen line and was lucky enough to be paired with Julie Ebersole herself today.  We were tasked with creating tags with a Santa theme.

Santa projects are often whimsical, cute, and fun, but I wanted to create a very sophisticated and elegant Santa tag.  Here's what I came up with:





I started by cutting a tag from watercolor paper.  Then I added some light, and pretty dry gold watercolor brushstrokes using my Kuretake Gansai watercolors.




I knew that I wanted the center of the tag to have a bit of a glow to it, so I darkened the edges of the tag a bit with some inking.

 Next I stamped the evergreen branches using Versafine and then clear embossed them.

 I slightly curved the stamp of Santa's sled/reindeer, and then stamped and clear embossed that as well.



Again using my Kuretake Gansai watercolors, I started adding green to the pine boughs.



I then went in with a gold Wink of Stella pen to add gold highlights to the boughs.



The sentiment was then stamped and embossed in gold and I went back in with my watercolors to pump up the colors a bit more.  I wanted it to be a bit brighter, so I added more greens and golds both to the greenery as well as to the areas just around the greenery.

 

For a bit more gold, I squeezed a bit of the gold Wink of Stella onto my ghetto craft mat which is really just a flexible cutting mat (sorry about the harsh color).  Then I used my paint brush to splatter the liquid onto the tag.

After that it was just a matter of finishing it up.  I added a thin strip of gold cardstock to the top and bottom of the tag, punched a hole, added the twine and voila!

Please stop by the Ellen Hutson blog to see Julie's tag and to leave a comment to win a $25 store credit.  While you're there you will want to check out the rest of the 12 tags posts, there is a giveaway on each one.  There's also a chance to win a $150 store credit!  All you have to do is create a tag inspired by on of the tags in the series and link it up.

Thanks for stopping by, hope your week is off to a great start!

Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps, Christmas Scribbles by Julie Ebersole

Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps, Santa's Flight by Julie Ebersole

Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps, Holly Jolly by Julie Ebersole

VersaFine Ink Pad, Onyx Black

Ranger Ink Blending Tool, 1 Inch Round

Stampendous Embossing Powder, Detail Gold

Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder, Clear

Zig Wink of Stella Glitter Brush Tip Marker, Gold

Kuretake Gansai Tambi, 36 Color Set

Canson XL Watercolor Paper Pad 9x12

Tis the Season

Hey everyone!  It's been a bit crazy here of late.

We had a wonderful and very relaxing Thanksgiving break, but we're back into the thick of things.  Christmas decorations are up (with the exception of the big tree), shopping is almost done, cards are being written/addressed/mailed, we're celebrating Advent with the girls, lots of good stuff!

I did want to share a quick Christmas card today.

I love the new images that Poppystamps has been coming out with.  These squirrels were too cute to ink up.

They were stamped and quickly watercolored, and then a sentiment was added.



The starburst type frame is from Avery Elle, it's a wonderful way to really show off your image.

That's all from me today.  Hope that you are enjoying the season as well!

Poppystamps Clear Stamps, Cup of Cheer

Poppystamps Clear Stamps, Holiday Hoopla

Avery ELLE-ments Dies, Burst

Kuretake Gansai Tambi, 36 Color Set

VersaFine Ink Pad, Onyx Black

Canson XL Watercolor Paper Pad 9x12

MFT Sketch 257

Time for a new sketch from MFT!



I'm still in full-on Christmas card mode, and pulled out these cute elves again for another Christmas card.

It's pretty CAS, I added some embossed stars and gold Wink of Stella splatter to the background for interest.

That's all for today.  Be sure to stop by the blog to check out the projects from the rest of the team.

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