Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

It's the night before Christmas

and all through the house..........

I've always loved that rhyme!

I used to like 5pm on Christmas Eve

too.  That was when all the shops

would be shut and "what was forgot

was done without"!  

Nowadays, there's always a shop 

open somewhere.................

Reminiscing over, we have a

beautiful card from Helen Chilton

today and here she is:

Here's a card to wish you all a Happy Christmas!

Here's how I made it:

Mask off the snowy layer at the bottom and sponge some

 VersaMagic Sunflower Yellow and Mango Madness onto the sky

Using Direct to Paper method, rub on some Sea Breeze 

and then add Night Sky round the edge

With the snow mask still on, stamp some branches in the distance 

using Whey and Aspen Mist.

Start to stamp the birch trees in Eggplant, 

quickly adding Stampendous Frantage Shabby White 

embossing enamel while wet

Remove snow mask and stamp the foreground trees

Rub some Eggplant lightly onto the snow to give it dimension

Stamp the greeting from the JOFY set in Eggplant -

curve it to fit round slope.

Finish by adding foliage, pine cones and robins.

Here's a close up of my double sided card.

Stamps used:

Card-i-o: Tall Trees, Festive Tweets, Festive Fir Cones
PaperArtsy JOFY 06

Other Materials:

VersaMagic inkpads: Sunflower Yellow, Mango Madness, Eggplant, 

Aspen Mist, Sea Breeze, Night Sky, Whey

Stampendous Frantage embossing enamel: Shabby White

Truly a card for someone special Helen

thank you very much and on behalf

of all of us

Merry Christmas to you

Mickie xx