Candy cane Bunny

Burrrrrrrr.... How the temperature has changed here! Definitely feels like November is around the corner!

Today's card is a holiday offering using KLM Digital Designs Candy Cane Bunny from the October release.

 Friend Bunny is colored with Copic markers and partially cut with a stitched oval die. The background layer is stamped in red with Tim Holtz's Ticking stamp. I used some leftover foliage die cuts from my Sizzix collection.

The sentiment comes with the image and says, "Sweetest wishes for a wonderful Christmas".  I split the sentiment and put the last part on the inside of the card. There are two other sentiments included with the image.

I think I'm in the mood for a little Peppermint tea 😉

Copic Map:

Bunny: E40,42,43,44, N1

             Ear - E000, E00, R20

Hat: R29, 22, 39

Candy Cane: R22,29,39, T1

Enjoy the day and keep creating!

Susan

Christmas Dinosaur

Welcome to my little creative space.

Today's card is a "cousin" to the Pilgrim Dino card seen here 

This is the Christmas Dino from this month's featured images at klmdigitaldesigns.com.

I have again used a variety of materials to go with my image.

Stash papers in red and star-printed kraft provide backdrops for the Spellbinders arch.

 I printed the dino onto card stock 3 times, creating three 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 panels. I used one printed image to cut out the hat. The second panel I cut using the Spellbinders Essential Arch dies and then stenciled the arch with  Distress Inks and stencil THMM133 from Stampersanonymous.com for the background.

The third panel I embossed with the Reptile 3D folder from Tim Holtz. 

I sprayed the embossed dino panel with Distress inks and quickly dried it. Then, used inks and stencil brushes to add more depth and shading. Once I achieved the look desired he was fussy cut.

I colored the hat with copics and glued it in place on the dino.

The dino is popped up with foam tape. Mini rhinestones from Hero Arts were added to the Christmas lights to make them sparkle a bit more. A Sizzix Thinlits set provided the holly accents for the corners.

The sentiment inside completes the front, "Ra Ra Ra Rawr".

Hope you enjoyed this card,

Susan

Quick Gift idea

Hello there. I'm glad you stopped by.

Today is a speedy gift solution using a pre-colored image from klmdigitaldesigns.com, the medium tag from Tim Holtz/Sizzix tag dies, and a few embellishments to personalize the project.

This is a tag, ornament, and money or gift card holder all in one.

I knew I wanted to add a greeting to the Gnome so I opened the PNG for this project and dropped it into a Pages document (or Word Document). I added a text box, typed the message in my choice of font, and sized and positioned the box near the gnome. I used the group option and sized the whole image to fit the tag size I wanted to use. The image was printed on a piece of white card and then cut with the tag die. 

The students I made these for recently changed schools so I traced the pennant in the new school color then cut and glued it over the blue pennant.

I used some pinstripe press-ons from Love from Lizzie to personalize the tag a bit.

Next, I layered the tag onto a piece of card matching the school color. This piece was folded up on the bottom to create a pocket for the gift. I used a circle punch to cut a section out for ease of card removal. I used very thin double-sided tape to close the sides of the pocket.

The pocket was stamped with a to/from stamp then a gold cord was threaded for a hanger and a red and white baker's twine bow was added.

Even with the personalization, it took me about 30 minutes to make both tags.

This can be tied to a package or hung in the tree.

I hope this helps a little with your holiday wrapping.

Gno-Tem Pole

Welcome to my little corner of creativity.

Feeling a little like Christmas, this Saturday post-Thanksgiving. I'm not quite recovered from days of cooking, cleaning, and a house full of family! The latter was WONDERFUL. I had all of my grandchildren together for the first time EVER. Believe me, I celebrated that! But I'm a bit too tired to start the Christmas decorating. Maybe tomorrow I will begin decking the halls. For now, the Gnomes have it under control.

Gnomes are colored with Copics in their finest holiday colors. I drew in the holly boughs to match the music, then fussy cut the whole thing and layered onto an old page of a caroling book. Do you remember the little books published by the John Hancock Company?

I had some pretty holly print paper scrap, added a touch of gold foil paper, and mounted it all on kraft.

I think this is my favorite holiday card yet!

Image - klmdigitaldesigns.com

Copics: Reds, Greens, and  the E42,43,44 series

Enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend.

Snowball Gnom Flurry kisse

Welcome! Are you ready for some snowflakes?

I LOVE this gnome and sentiment! "If kisses were snowflakes, I'd send you a blizzard!"

He is a digital image from klmdigitaldesigns.com, colored with Copics, fussy cut, and popped up with thin foam on a hand-dyed background.  Great as a holiday card, but I was thinking more for that long cold stretch in January, or even Valentine's Day!

Copics: E000, O4, E00 (skin)

            E41, 43, 44 (pants and mitten)

            BG000, 01, 05, 07, Clear Blender (hat, coat, and snow)

            C0, 2, 4, black Multiliner pen 0.1 (beard)

           Sakura Gelly Roll pens Clear Star and white

Gnome gift Tags

Hello there. Welcome to my little blog.

Today I am sharing one way I use the pre-colored images from klmdigitaldesigns.com. The flexibility of sizing allows one to use the same image in multiple ways.

Once I receive my images, I make sure to save them to an external storage device. I find a thumb drive works best for me. Just back the images up onto something. For this project, I printed the images in sizes to fit my tag dies.

I use an Apple computer, so I drop my images into Pages and size them according to my needs. It helps to have an idea of what you are going to use the images on. That makes sizing a snap! In this case, I wanted to make a package of holiday gift tags using the smaller tag die. I estimated the approximate size of the gnome based on that die. Then, I dropped and sized one image. Last, I copied and pasted it three times. That gave me four images the exact same size. I used a Scan N Cut to cut them out, but usually, I just fussy-cut the gnomes.

 I used blue scraps from my pile of handmade backgrounds to die-cut my tags and gave them a little spritz of Distress Mica Stains. Then, I stenciled some white cardstock and die-cut a coin envelope to put the tags into. I'll add a small label and ribbon right before I give this package away. They are the perfect size to drop in your purse and hand them out to those you cross paths with. I like to do that with the dentist's office, and the teller at the bank. Just a bit of holiday cheer.

The second tag uses a  variation of the first. This is a bigger tag to go on a gift bag for a birthday.

Here is when the versatility of digital stamps comes into play. I can change the size of the image to match my project. I cut a piece of background with the perfect color combination for this tag.

    If you make your own backgrounds, you know it is darn near impossible to have a clean back. I just trace the finished tag onto card stock, cut it out and glue it to the back. This gives a nice clean area to write a message.

Materials:

Digital Stamp- klmdigitaldesigns.com

Sentiment Stamps - Happy Holidays, Stampendous

                               Just for You, Scrapbook.com

Dies- Sizzix/Tim Holtz Thinlits Collector #665926

          Sizzix/Tim Holtz Thinlits Framed Tags #666065

Stencil- Stampers Anonymous #THMM133

Distress Mica Stain

Gold Icing Paste

Cash Frog Christmas

Hello there. Welcome to my blog.

Today I am sharing what I hope will be a cash holder, for the teens, at Christmas time. Over the years I have found they prefer cash over gift cards so much more. I'm always on the lookout for a fun way to package a few dollars for Christmas. When I saw this cute frog image, I knew I wanted to use him on the small coin envelope from Sizzix.

I used my Epson printer to print the image and sentiment on white card stock and colored the frog with Copic markers. I cut the envelope from Kraft stock with the Sizzix Collector die, then stamped it with a mistletoe die from Stampin'UP (retired). The back closes with a washer/string closure as seen below. The overall size is approximately 3x4 inches.

Add a little glue and it's done. 

 

Materials:

White and kraft card stock, scraps of red, green 

Digital Stamp- Christmas Frog - klmdigitaldesigns.com

Stamp- Peaceful Wishes, Stampin'UP

Sizzix/ Tim Holtz Thinlit - Collector #665926

My Favorite Things Stamps- Stitched Fishtails

Coloring mediums - SU Water-based markers in green and 

        brown

  Copic markers- Y02, G20, YG13, 17, 67, R22, 27, 46, 59, 

C1, C2, Multiliner black, Wink of Stella

Eyelet setter, eyelets or brads, baker's twine

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day.