Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Christmas In July

Hello Crafty Friends!

Well, what can I say? Nancy and I like the Christmas In The Air Feature so much that we were eager to continue over the Summer too.

Today I'm sharing a couple of projects made for July's Christmas In The Air feature over at STAMPlorations. In this special feature Nancy and I are sharing a couple of Christmas projects each.


My first card features the new Good Tidings Clear Stickers and my favourite snowman from the Yuletide Cheer Digital Stamps - set of 3. Here they are ... the jolly snowmen ...


My background was created using Turquoise, Purple and Ultra Marine Brusho crystals on photo paper/card. I started by sprinkling a bit of each colour on my photo paper/card and spritzed with water to activate the crystals. The purple looked a bit too dominant, and I added some Ultra Marine on top lightly misting until I got my desired effect.


Originally I had intended to use the background with the purple flecks toward the top, but after I had coloured and fuzzy cut the snowmen, I decided the purple flecks looked better towards the bottom.

I attached my elements in place added a doodled border and finished off with a sticker sentiment panel.


Next up is a card using one of Sanna's new stencils, Christmas Wreaths ...


My little eye shadow brushes came out again to play. I used them to blend the following inks through my stencil: Cerise and Grenadine Izink inks for the berries and Verveine, Menthe and Emeraude Izink inks for the leaves



I rounded the corners of my square base card and edged my card with a gold pen. To finish I added a gold edged sticker sentiment panel and a couple of golden pearls.


Pop over to the STAMPlorations Blog to check out the lovely projects my teamie Nancy made. The Christmas In The Air feature also doubles up as a mini blog hop. Shery will randomly draw one winner of a $15 gift code from all the comments left on the Christmas In The Air posts on the STAMPlorations Blog, on Nancy's blog and on my blog.

Should you find yourself placing an order, feel free to use my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA at checkout for a 20% discount on your order. Please note that my discount code can not be combined with any other coupon code, but you can use it as often as you wish. I've got to be honest, if you use the code and/or the link to the STAMPlorations Shop I provide in my posts for your purchases, I will get a little reward.

Hopefully Nancy and I have inspired you to add to your 2020 Christmas stash.
Wishing you lots of fun hopping along.
hugs
Monika xxx


here is what I used from the STAMPlorations Shop

- Main Store
Good Tidings Clear StickersSimple Christmas Clear StickersChristmas Wreaths Stencil - Sanna Lippert Design
preview-goodtidingsstickers.png preview-simplechristmasstickers.png preview-christmaswreaths.png

- Digital Store
Yuletide Cheer Digital Stamps - set of 3
preview-yuletidecheer.png

Current offer at STAMPlorations

15 comments:

  1. Oh my gosh your cards are both so darling! I especially love those snowmen!

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  2. Awesome cards! Love the textured background you created for the cute snowmen! And beautiful design with the Christmas Wreaths stencil for your second card!

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  3. Delightful cards. Thanks for sharing your crafting techniquest for these cards. I especially like the results of the brusho crystals on photo paper. This makes a great background. tfs-stay well.

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  4. Monika, I just love those little snowman they are so adorable.....tfs

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  5. Great background for these cute snowmen and pretty wreath card.

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  6. love the background for your snowman, and your wreath is gorgeous :)

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  7. Such great cards--love them!

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  8. Awesome cards! The BG for the snowmen is just delish!!

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  9. Love the snowman card,
    fabulous background.
    The second card looks
    so neat.
    Carla from Utah

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  10. These are so fun and festive-love
    the cute snow people!

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  11. Gorgeous cards! I love Christmas in July!

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  12. so creative, I love your cards!

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  13. Just love your work. Thank you for sharing.

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  14. The background for the snowmen is wonderful. It looks like the sky is stormy. NICE

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Thanks so much for stopping by. Your comments are very much appreciated. Have a lovely day! Hugs XXX