Crafty As L

The last Sunday in the month means it’s the C-word.   Yes, it’s Christmas! The stamp set I’m using this week is Christmas Hats by Colorado Craft Company which features the cute drawings by Anita Jeram.   To begin, I stamped the cat, masked it and then stamped the dog.   To colour, I used a technique demonstrated by Jennifer McGuire, in which the negative mask is used so that ink can be blended onto the image. After colouring the dog, I then masked the hat fur and coloured the body of the hat red. You can see that I forgot to protect the area at the edge of the mask when colouring the hat so had to cut out the image.   Since I’d overlapped the images, I had to partially die cut each image and then fussy-cut the bit in between. The animals were masked and I also added a mask for the ground before white heat-embossing snowflakes (Avery Elle Snowflakes stamp) and blending Distress Oxides in Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire to the sky. Somehow, I managed to get ...

Bereavement cards are always difficult to make, knowing that the person you’re making the card for has lost someone dear to them.  Our friends recently lost their beloved dog, Dooley, so I wanted to send a card to let them know that we were thinking of them.  The inspiration for this card was from a Pinterest post for a cat version. It’s quite a simple card starting with a heart die-cut from black glitter paper and then cut out the dog using Stampin’ Up! Dog Builder punch.  Using the same punch, I cut a heart from some red glitter card. The sentiment is from a set by Waffle Flower called Rainbow Bridge.  I like to stamp the sentiment on black ink and then add clear embossing powder on top. A black mat is the final step to frame the top layer.