Saturday, September 8, 2018

Joyful Christmas Mice

Hello Blogger friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with The Charmed Life Blog.
 
It's a rainy Saturday here in Pittsburgh. In fact we are supposed to get 5" of rain this weekend. The remnants of the tropical depression Gordon. It will be a good time to stay inside and spend some time in my craft room. That way I can watch the rain from the window.
 
First up today will be to process our garden tomatoes. My hubby picked about 20 lbs. of tomatoes and I will be canning them. But first, I do have a card for today. This one I created for my weekly DT post on the CottageCutz Blog. So let's get started with some details.
Step 1: I started off by die cutting all the pieces that are part of this die set. I use various colors of cardstock. But you could cut them in white cardstock and then color the pieces with pencils, alcohol markers or water color. 
I simply followed the package coloring and used similar cardstocks. Our artist does such a great job of coloring the images, and I always love the colors she uses.
My Joy word is cut from the new die Love, Peace & Joy. I cut it 2x in red cardstock to give it a bit more dimension on my card.
Wanted just a bit of snow in my outdoor scene so I cut a snowbank in white glitter cardstock from the Snowman Lane die. Click here to see another card I made using this die.

The last item for my card prep is the background clouds. I wanted this to be a daytime scene. Although with the lamp pole you could certainly make a nighttime sky and have a great night scene. 
I used a mini-cloud stencil and distress ink to sponge in some clouds. I stenciled right on the white card base, making this more of a one layer card.

Step 2: Now that all the pieces of the card are ready, it's time for card assembly. I started with the snowbank.
Then I attached the Christmas Mice die cut pieces with a combination of glue dots and double sided adhesive.
The Joy sentiment was attached with Ranger multi matte medium to complete my card. I don't often do one layer cards because I like the addition of designer paper and layers but I like how this one turned out. I plan on making several more of these for Christmas. 
Card Base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Well, that's my card for today. So until next time...…..God bless.
 
dies I used to create card:
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzchristmasmice.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzlovepeaceandjoy.aspx
 
http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzsnowmanlane.aspx

I am also entering:
1.  Brown Sugar has an all creatures great and small challenge.
2.  Winter Wonderland has a Christmas Joy challenge.
3.  2 Crafty Critter Crazies has an anything goes with a critter.
4.  Crafty Animals has an anything goes challenge.
5.  The Merry Christmas Challenge has an anything goes.
6.  Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge is anything goes + include word Joy.



7 comments:

  1. What a darling image, I really love this one will have to go and check this die set out.

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  2. Awwww, what a cute Christmas card! Love it! :)

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  3. Beautiful make. Love this project. Thank you for joining us at Crafty Animals. Hugs Traci DT xx

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  4. Absolutely adorable. Thank you for joining at CHNC in the Anything Christmas with an optional theme of Include the word Joy.

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  5. Totally adorable card. What a great die cut! Thanks for joining my Christmas Joy challenge over at Winter Wonderland.
    Love n hugs
    Marie

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  6. Such a cute design and I loved seeing your step by step too.

    Thanks for joining us at 2 Crafty Critter Crazies.

    Helen x

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  7. Wonderful :)Thanks for playing with us at Brown Sugar Challenge:)Ines DT

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