A Peek-A-Boo Christmas

I just love the Festive Friday Challenge, not that I have had the chance to join in lately, but hoping that will change in the coming weeks.  I was extra inspired to join in this week because last weekend at the Stampin' Up! Convention I got to meet the very lovely Nicole who runs the challenge!!!  I just love Convention because I get to meet in person those I know on-line.

 In a double Convention hit this week I have chosen to use one of the sneak peek items that will be in our upcoming Annual Catalogue in September.  We got to use this new Big Shot Die at the I Am Creative class on the Friday night, I can't wait to get my hands on these when the new catalogue comes out, I can see so many options for this one!

I have also used the DSP from the Christmas pack - I just love the way the pattern on this one seems to sparkle and it went so well with the Glimmer Paper '25'.  

The window opens up to show a cute little image underneath, aren't these cute?  They come in a variety of shapes, all open up to reveal a surprise underneath.  For this one I chose to use another image from the stamp set we used in our creative class, I inked this up with a Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker so that the '25' on the stamp did not get inked.  This is another of my attempts to use this set as more than just an advent set.

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Non-Traditional Christmas

Last week I joined in with Festive Friday challenge and used what I considered to be non-traditional colours for a Christmas card, and was really happy with the end result.  Yesterday I made a card for this week's sketch challenge at Festive Friday and decided to carry on the idea of non-traditional colours - though I am not 100% sure I have hit the mark.  Let me know what you think in your comments, I am open to honest feedback on this one.

I haven't used this stamp set in ages, I just loved it when I first bought it.  I guess using Pedal Presents earlier had me thinking of this set too because you can put all sorts of things in the back of the truck. I stamped in StazOn onto water colour paper and then used my blender pens to colour the image.  The tree I inked up with my Stampin' Write markers straight onto the stamp so I could colour the trunk and branches different colours.  I used the stamping off technique to repeat the trees on the background.  You can't see it well in the photo but I used my blender pen on the windscreen and side window as well as the hubcaps.  Lesson learned that the sparkle takes for ever to leave your Blender pen, so now I have a "gold" and "silver" tag on each end of one of my pens!

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Anybunny for Framelits?

Today I had a lovely surprise when I opened my front door to find a brown Stampin' Up! box on my doorstep.  It was my items from pre-order for the Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue and I was sooo excited to start playing.  This next mini catalogue would have to be my favourite ever, so many beautiful things.  The great part about being a demonstrator is that I get to purchase them a month earlier than they are generally available. 

This is the second card I made today, a cute little easel card using the new Framelits Labels collection dies and the Everybunny stamp set from the main catalogue.   These little bunnies are just too darn cute!  On this card I have combined three of the stamps using masking techniques, the little girl bunny with the basket, the boy bunny with the egg, and the mushrooms.  I love how it has come together to create a little scene.  You can't see it so well in this photo but I cut the little girl bunny out and added her to the card using Dimensionals.

It wasn't until I went in search of a tag for my sentiment that I realised how well the Lots of Tags Sizzlet die matched the new Labels Framelits!  I can see me using these together quite a bit in the future.

I am entering this card into the Festive Friday challenge this week.  I haven't had chance to join in with the challenges there this year, and was very excited to see that the next few weeks will be Easter themed!  This week we had to choose a card that inspired us and then create our own version.  My inspiration was not a single card, rather all of the beautiful easel cards I have seen, most of which come from the very talented Bronwyn Eastley.

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