A Wintery Feeling

 This cute card is from Spellbinder's 2023 Advent Calendar Day One. The box had this adorable little car and so I jumped straight into making it a little ride to "Grandmother's House" with the woods and the snow.

The lights are from Chibitronics. The background was actually pretty easy to make too! I masked off a line for the snow and then blended a blue background and started stamping trees. I didn't even try to mask I just stamped two different colors to make some look more like they were in the background. I am very pleased with how this came out! 

I'm playing along and entering my project here:

Inspiration Station Challenge - December: Inspiration Photo - I was inspired by all the shiny lights! Plus it's a car so we've got some transportation vibes going! I absolutely love the glow of the parade.

Double D Challenge Blog - Winter/Snow Scene - It's a pretty drive through the snow. My card gives me To Grandmother's House song vibes!

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog - Simon Says "Let It Snow" - I have snow-covered greens on the patterned papers to accent all these sweet images.

Border Attribute:  Image by starline  on Freepik 

Masking Project

My First Masking Project! I see so many beautiful layered cards, so I decided to go for it. It's funny that the process is a lot messier looking and backwards!

I started with my characters that belonged in the front.

Added a full stick sticky note to mask over all of the first stamps. Then continued for each layer.

Not very pretty but then I masked off areas for the background too. 

 Tah Dah! I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. I will definitely keep working on getting better with this technique, and maybe try slimline cards so I can have the whole crew. 

Sepllbinders Ornament Set

 I'm back from vacation! Sorry for the long interruption! It is good to be home although I brought back a cold, which is less fun. I have a few more Christmas Cards to share before the end of the year! So this is four cards from my Spellbinders Set . They are SUPER easy to make. I know you can shade and make them fancy, but for this first go around I just did the basic die for each of the cards. I love how simple they are but also how many ways to mix and match.  

For this little reindeer I used Chibitronics again. I suspect you will hear that word a lot! They are just really easy to use and yet add so much to the cards. Next time though I want to get the slow blink red effect light, which will be even better. 

A fun idea is to also use a brad to attach the bear, so this one can actually come off the card and become an ornament!

Meet Dudley

 

This is Dudley! Dudley lights up and is one of my new favorite stamps from Whimsy Stamps. I have a video of his lights up on my Instagram!

It's easier to make than it looks in the video! First I stamped and colored Dudley and cut out his light bulb with an x-acto knife.

Dudley  has vellum over the cut out light bulb. I stamped the image on vellum just lined it up and glued it down. I placed the green and red frames over it after gluing down the vellum and using a pencil for marking where to cut out holes on the frames, and where to place the light on the base card. I might have to add extra pictures for this step next time I make a light up card. 

Then I cut a hole on both of the card frames. I used a  a pencil inside his cut out light bulb to mark where they light needed to go on the base card and also to help align the squares for the frames. 

I used Chibitronic lights for creating my circuit. It is so easy to use and line up! I am in love with their supplies and bought more on Black Friday!

Here is my circuit , see just a little tape and done! Put on the dimensional tape around the frame and now you have a light-up Dudley!