Winter Wendy Believe

 Hi there!

I put a card together today and had to share!

This one was done with 

Winter Wendy

from

Conie Fong Art & Design!

The digital image was printed, colored with

Prismacolor Pencils and fussy cut.

I created a background with some glitter and metallic card stock.

Snowflakes and snowflake borders were die cut, as was the sentiment.

All dies used are from Crafter's Companion.

I added some clear gems to the 3 individual snowflakes.

Be sure and visit Conie's Etsy Shop for this digi and a whole lot more.

Also, I hope you'll join us over on Facebook at

Conie Fong Art & Design Group.

We'd love to see your creations using Conie Fong digis there!

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Conie Fong now has a You Tube Channel where she teaches drawing simple images 

in easy step-by-step drawing tutorials.

Draw with Conie You Tube Channel

Also, we invite you to join the Draw with Conie Facebook Group.

You'll find info on new videos there and inspiration projects from the Design Team. 

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Christmas at Polkadoodles

 Happy Saturday!

It's time to provide some inspiration for this month's

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge!

Challenge theme: ANYTHING GOES

It's all about Christmas for the Design Team's inspiration this week!

I made a card using the

Oh Deer Gingerbread Cookie Digistamp Bundle.

These bundles are great, as they have everything 

you need for holiday crafting!

I used one of the cute images and colored with pencils.

It was fussy cut before adding to my card.

The backgrounds done with 2 of the included papers and

one of the sentiments and the pre-colored tree.

I hope you join us!

PCS Card Sketch Inspiration

Hello!

It's Thursday and that's my day to share some inspiration for

Pajama Crafter Stamps! 

For the month of December we are creating with sketches.

Do you use sketches when creating your cards?

I do quite often and love changing things up a little.

I made a slimline card with the

Baking Spirits Bright Stamps.

 The snowman cookie image was stamped 3 times, colored 

with Prismacolor Pencils and fussy cut.

Small squares were die cut out of a patterned paper and tilted

over a piece of rectangular cut card stock, also titled.

I added my snowmen and some die cut stars with some red pearls added.

The sentiment is from the stamps set.

I stamped it and fussy cut before adding to the card.

This is the sketch I used.

As you can see, I didn't use exact rectangles as seen in the sketch, but

 it's okay to manipulate sketches a little and put your own twist on them!

Really, you could use just about any shape you like in place of the rectangles.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at today's card project!

If you haven't used sketches give it a try!

I'll be back next Thursday with another inspiration project using a sketch for

Pajama Crafter Stamps!

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Linking up to:

Addicted to Stamps and More - Christmas

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes

A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge - ATG

Ally's Angels - ATG

Classic Design Challenge - ATG /Bells & Baubles Twist

Halloween and Other Occasions Crafts All Year 'Round - Christmas

The Four Seasons Challenge - Anything Goes Winter

Pearly Sparkles - Christmas

A Place to Start - Happy Holidays

Dream Valley Challenge - ATG

613 Avenue Create - playing Any Winter Holiday/ATG

Dragonfly Dreams - Christmas

Let's Create a Snowman for a Wreath

Hi there! 

Today I'm sharing my first Clear Scraps project for the month of December!

For this project I am working with the Medium Snowman Shiplap Shape.

I started by tracing the snowman onto the back of a piece of heavy white glitter card stock.

Then I traced the outline of the snowman’s hat onto black card stock.

The tracings were cut out.

I adhered the cut outs to the front of the snowman shiplap shape.

I die cut some pink circles for cheeks, punched 2 black pieces for eyes and hand cut an orange nose.

Also pulled out some black twine for a mouth. 

The twine was attached to the back of the pink cheek pieces with double sided tape.

Glue the eyes, nose and pink cheeks to the snowman’s face. I added some glue to the twine to form the mouth.

I die cut some snowflakes for embellishment.

A piece of washi tape was added as a band on the hat. A piece of ribbon was added as a scarf.

Since I plan on attaching my snowman to a wreath, I hot glued 2 pipe cleaners to the back.

I layered the die cut snowflakes and added snowflake gems.

The snowflakes were glued to the hat and scarf.

I pulled out a wreath which I had made previously.

Attach the snowman to the wreath by wrapping and twisting the pipe cleaners to the wreath backside.

Project is finished.

I did add the black circle die cuts to snowman’s body after I completed, as I realized I didn’t do so before! LOL! 

Thanks for taking a look at my project! I hope I have provided a little bit of inspiration for you.

You can find more Clear Scraps inspiration 

by following on social media

Clear Scraps Blog

Clear Scraps Facebook

Clear Scraps Instagram

Clear Scraps Pinterest  

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Linking up to:

A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge - ATG

Classic Design Challenge - ATG w/Twist Bells and Baubles

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - ATG

The Creative Crafters Challenge - ATG

Four Seasons Challenge - Anything Winter Goes

Winter Birthday Card

Hey there! I'm posting today with a Winter Birthday Card project for CutCardStock.

It’s not very often that I make birthday cards for a certain season. Do you do that? I usually just make them and figure they are appropriate for any time.

Materials

Mohawk Super Fine White Smooth 100 lb CardStock (a good alternative is the Cougar White Smooth CardStock), Lessebo Colors NAVY BLUE 83lb Cardstock, DCS Discount Card Stock: Canvas Textured Ginger Snap Card Stock, Winter Wonderland Prints 6×6 Card Stock pad – Assortment – 36 sheets

Deer Die, Sentiment Die, 2 Circle Dies, Embossing Folder, Markers and Adhesive

Starting

Having an idea of how to layout this card, I first chose one of the pattern papers and set the smaller circle die over the area to cut.

The Ginger Snap Card Stock is perfect for a deer. Use some markers to add a little color.

Cut the sentiment and a larger circle out of the Navy Blue Card Stock.

Card Base

The card base is 5 x 6 1/2 inches and is cut from the Navy Blue Card Stock. Cut a piece 10 x 6 1/2 inches, score at 5 inches on the 10 inch side and fold in half.

A piece of the White Mohawk Card Stock is cut to 1/4 inch smaller than the navy. Emboss with a corner design embossing folder.

Adhere the white piece of card stock to the card base. Mat the pattern paper circle to the navy die cut circle.

Finishing

To finish up, adhere the die cuts as in the photo below.

My Winter Birthday Card is a simple design and I am happy with it!

I hope my card provides some inspiration for you to create a winter card. Thanks for taking a look!

Join us over on the CutCardStock Facebook Page and the newly revamped Facebook Group Creating with CutCardStock for more inspiration.

           And even more inspiration can be found on the CutCardStock Blog.

Morgan's ArtWorld Challenge December

It's the first of another month!

That means there is a new challenge up at

Morgan's ArtWorld!

The challenge theme is always

ANYTHING GOES.

You can enter projects using any images from any company.

So, come on over and join us!

using Ivy Greenleaf 17

I colored the digital stamps with pencils and fussy cut.

My background is a combination of a die cut frame,

die cut flowers and die cut flourishes and leaves.

I hope you join us this month!

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