For Robin's Snow, dudette F4A challenge yesterday!
Before Christmas I left a comment on an upload of Claudia's which used this sentiment (her upload is HERE); I said how perfect it would be for my DH who is a total Grinch when it comes to Christmas. What a wonderful surprise to find a card from her on Monday morning as I struggled back to work, containing a few cute knitting sheep and the sentiment. So I've made DH's card already before I forget what I had in mind. I wanted the Grinchy sheep outside in the cold looking in at a warm cozy Christmas scene, so that worked perfectly for Robin's challenge.
Background: stamped the trees, embossed them, sponged the sky with blues and added chunky white EP for snow. Then several layers of torn glitter card.
For the house - it's pearlescent card embossed with a Taylored Expressions ef after cutting the window out. It's layered up on thick foam, with acetate for the window; I coloured the Purple Onion tree with pencils and Sakura pens, then masked it and sponged in the warm light. Added Stickles for the tinsel on the tree, and some TH tinsel trim to decorate the top of the window. Outside I added a little window box cut from a scrap and filled with greenery.
The sheep is stamped on thin watercolour paper and minimally coloured with pencils, then popped up on foam and a final layer of glitter snow added.
I trimmed the sentiment, sponged it with blue, added white gel pen dots and edged it with silver before popping it up on foam.
The non-house edge of the card is finished with a silver pen - with more time I might use Stickles and make it look a bit neater, but I love how this turned out. Thanks so much, Claudia!!
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Stamps: Unity: Love Ewe, Purple Onion: Retro Christmas Tree; Denami Design: trees
Paper: white card, pearlescent card, glitter card
Paper Size: 5 3/4" square
Ink: Versafine Black and Olympia Green, distress inks -chipped sapphire, stormy sky, mustard seed
Accessories: IO window dies and pine sprigs, TH tinsel trim, chunky white EP, clear EP, TE brick wall ef, acetate, Stickles, Sakura glaze and stardust pens, lots of foam tape, Top Dog dies for santa hat (penguin set)
Wow...this is awesome! Love all the details...the brick fascade, the sparkly snow, the night sky...and of course, the baah humbug sentiment. . The expression on the sheeps face is sweet...he's longing to go inside!
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