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Hi There

Hope you are all wrapped up

warm - it is seasonally cold

out there!  Well, for us it is

but I expect those of you

south of the equator are enjoying

much warmer weather......

Celebrating the season here is

Claire Jackson and she's made 

all her Christmas cards too.....!

"If you’re like me with Christmas looming 

large you’ll be starting to panic that 

you haven’t made enough...or any...

Christmas cards.

The secret is to have a simple design

 that you can batch make.

Cut a square of card 10.5x10.5cm. 

Mask off some hills and colour the sky

 with weathered wood and salty ocean

 Distress Ink. 

Remove the mask for the background 

hill so that you can add a little shadow 

as if there is a bit of a valley.

Using a stencil (this one is from Kaisercraft)

and white acrylic paint add falling snow. 

If some of the circles are bolder than others

 it helps to give the feeling of depth.

Stamp a fence line and some grass in 

Archival ink. I used watering can as it is 

a little softer than black.

Following your die cutting machine’s instructions,

 die cut and emboss the snowman die.

 Colour him in with pencils or pens.

 Die cut the sentiment from white card.

Mat the background onto blue card and

 assemble all of the pieces.

I had my snowman before I bought the 

sentiment but here are the 20 cards I 

managed to make in an afternoon with 

a Distress Ink background and stamping.

 Instead of the acrylic paint I added 

white gel pen to the grass.

Products used:

Find It Media Dies
White card
Distress Ink
Archival Ink
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish chalk paint
Masks and Stencils
Build a scene stamps
Watercolour pencils

Wow Claire, that is being

organised!  Thank you for

the inspiration

Are you all up to date with

your Christmas preparations?

No need ask if I am........ but

I have got my cards done!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx