Thursday 8 December 2016

Project: Christmas Scenes for MAWTT



There are few things I love more than a good Christmas scene. I love this time of year and all of the festive things that go with it! So to celebrate, Jan is hosting a Christmas Scene challenge at Moving Along With the Times and we want to see you create a project that depicts a cozy/festive/wintery/Christmasy scene.

I loved this so much I made two. The headline card features a great little stamp that Claire got me as well as a new sentiment I picked up in the Michael's Black Friday sale this year. I heat embossed it in black on a stitched rectangle die that I stole from Claire's stash...she really shouldn't be so generous with her stuff...or maybe she doesn't know she's being generous? ;) I used Distress Inks to watercolor the background, going from grey to light green and then blue at the top. I kept the area around the house blank and then used Wink of Stella shimmer to give it a lovely snowy sheen. The ribbon was a scrap on my desk and happened to go perfectly so I added it to the bottom for a little contemporary touch.


This second card features a big stamp that is also from the Michael's Black Friday sale. I used Stampin' Up khaki dye ink on brown card to get a stain look and then added a die cut sentiment from Dies R Us. The background paper is at least one or two years old...can't quite remember the origins there! I added tiny white enamel accents to make it look like snow and make it pop a bit.

I hope you have fun creating some scenes, can't wait to see what you come up with!

5 comments:

  1. Hi Jessie,
    what a very wonderful card and such a super scene too.
    Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.

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  2. WOW!!! You really worked that cottage stamp man, I love the headline card, absolutely beautiful. The new sentiment is yummy. Re: my generosity, our stash is shared remember...And now can we talk about that giant new stamp of yours..DO WANT. Love that second card you made with it. I remember that paper, I think I have some too, I think we bought it at the BF we did together in Dtown. Cx

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  3. Ah these are both brilliant, what great cards, Love Hazelx

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  4. Both gorgeous cards, thank you, xxx

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  5. These are stunning cards Jessie… love the first one, such a peaceful scene and I love the gorgeous watercolour sky… the house looks cosy and inviting, sums up Christmas really well.
    Love the forest scene in the second card… and the gingham border looks really fab with it!!
    Sorry I'm so late commenting hun
    Love and hugs, Sue B xx

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