Merry Christmas Ella!

This is for my Penguin loving pink and purple girl Ella, who by the way IS VERY COOL.  This is a digi stamp from SKDigis called Chilly the Penguin and boy was she fun to color and glitter up.  The sentiment also came with Chilly.  Ella loved it.  I printed the digi on white cardstock and colored with Copics.  Layered that onto Spellbinders Scalloped Ovals and then onto an embossed snowflake paper.  The embossing folder is by Darice and is called Snowflake Swirl, it is fast becoming my favorite Christmas embossing folder.

 

Warm Winter Wishes

This cool Christmas winter scene is a stamp from Penny Black called Village Christmas if memory serves.  I found an example already colored on her site, so used that as my guide because I liked the color tones used.  Mine turned out OK, but definitely not as professional as the one that served as my example.  This is the first time stamping and coloring a whole scene.  The sentiment is a digi from SKDigis, I put a little shading on it and topped with a couple of rhinestones, attached that to a ribbon band and that was it.  The pretty patterned paper is from Graphic45’s 12 days of Christmas.

 

 

You are so cool!

This is a sweet little Penguin digi image from SKDigis called Chilly the Penguin.  Colored her up in non-traditional Christmas colors, pastel greens and pinks are Ella's favorite colors and added some pretty background papers that I embossed with a Darice folder called Snowflakes and Flourishes, fun die cuts and lots of glitter and sparkle.  I thought my Granddaughter would like the “cool” sentiment and this fun winter scene theme.

 

 

I'm Guest Designer for SKDigis "In the Spotlight Monday"!

Hi, I’m Barbara and I’m "addicted to digi stamps".  I don’t think I need a 12 step program YET…SKDigi’s have too many cute images I need to try.  What a privilege to have been asked to be a guest designer there, I am honored, thank you Sonia.  I have been a card maker for three years or so and my husband of 46 years (and counting) encourages me in this.  He’s known for bringing me a glass of wine to my craft room in the afternoon and therefore...I'm Happy as a Clam in White Wine Butter Sauce. 

I chose to make two cards with this wonderful Christmas digi called Mistletoe.  The first card is very traditional in style and color.  I printed and colored the image using Copic markers, the leaves are done using G07 Nile Green and G14 Apple Green and the berries with R37 Carmine.  Used Spellbinders Classic Squares to cut and then layered that image onto white cardstock that was embossed with a Darice embossing folder called Snowflake Swirl.  I added glitter to the Mistletoe image and also to the Memory Box Frosty Border die using Glitter Ritz Cool Highlight.  Layered some pretty green ribbon over the red ribbon to back the Frosty Border die.

 

My second card using the Mistletoe image and greeting I made by taking the image and shrinking it down to create a border band and printed and colored with Copics YG03 Yellow Green for the leaves and for the berries I used R32 Peach.  I used Stickles Diamond to add a soft glitter to the images and then layered that atop white card stock and that onto peach cardstock that also had been embossed with the Darice embossing folder Snowflake Swirl.  I added a peach ribbon for interest and there you have it. 

So as you can see using the same image in two ways (and counting) gives you a completely different look and feel making it a very versatile digi.