There's Snow Place Like Home!

Especially on a bitterly cold day! Brrrrr!

But I do LOVE winter; it gives me more time to craft instead of weeding a garden  ;)

Here's a card featuring my newest digistamps, Penguin and Igloo. They can be purchased over at my DigiDrawn site!

This card also marks the first time I've tried a new toy I received for Christmas - my Copic airbrush! I used it to colour the background and the swirls with B91 and B93.

My Cuttlebug was used to emboss the background as well as to cut my swirls using three new Sizzlet dies I picked up at Michaels for 50% off yesterday (can't beat that!)

The ribbon is from my stash and the sentiment is computer generated.

Copics used:

Penguin: B91, B93, B95, C0, C3, C4, C6, C10, Y32, Y35, Y38

Igloo: B91, C0, C3, C4, C5

Keep warm - stay indoors!

Christmas Cards 2010

Now that my cards have been sent out awhile ago, I can finally post what I did for this year's design, hopefully without ruining the surprise for the recipients.

First, I knew I wanted to use my own drawing of CranBeary bear (one of my digistamps over at my DigiDrawn site) as the focal image. Next I found my Sizzix Round Tag die and ran it through my Cuttlebug. When I looked at it closer, I realized it bore a good resemblance to a Christmas ornament, so I coloured it in that way, attached a real ornament hanger and hooked it over CranBeary's candy cane.

The paper used for the snowflake background is "Christmas Magic - Silver Snow" by Fancy Pants Design. A Martha Stewart snowflake punch was run along the bottom of the cardfront, and another Sizzix Scribbles Swirls die was used to punch out the green swirls, matching the cardstock for the background mat.

The longest part of the process was colouring in over 30 CranBearys in Copic markers and cutting them all out!

At least this year, I smartly chose an image that is mostly white!

Happy Holidays!