My card today was totally inspired by the snowman card by Vera Rhuhay on the Mama Elephant blog this week - I really liked her idea of making a tree from the little characters (a bit like the kitty tree which will be back in stock in a couple of weeks hopefully) but I thought it would be fun to use the elves and make them all green to look more tree like!
I stamped all the elves in one go straight from the sheet just using a bit of tape to temporarily fix it in my stamping platform before colouring them all with pencils and die cutting them with the matching dies.
I kept the colours minimal - just 3 shades of green for their dungarees, hats and boots and one red for the shirts and accessories with tiny highlights of yellow and blue, the uniformity of colours gives the idea of a tree and decorations.
To make it into a card I did a soft blue sky blended with ink leaving a white snowy hill to stand them on and then just lined them up adding the ball on top from the same set as the tree topper with some rays of light which were taken from Concord and 9th Merry and Bright stamp set which is where I took the sentiments from too.
There are so many little agenda stamps that would work for this idea - I might be making lots of weird trees for Christmas this year!
NEWS FROM THE STORE
Last week was crazy busy both in the store and because I had lots of medical appointments and a whole afternoon with the accountants as its time to pay lots of taxes so I didn't manage to get any of the stock loaded to store that I had planned to last week.
So I am working a little today to play catch up and Flora and Fauna will be live today.
We got the new washi tapes from AlteNew late on Friday so will get those processed today and they will hopefully be live today or tomorrow.
We also got the latest release from Lil' Inker Designs - I will work on that tomorrow.
We also have some new Christmas themed papers and accessories from Echo Park / Carta Bella which I will get sorted as soon as I can.
The new release from Waffle Flower crafts is in transit and will be in store this week.
We will be hopefully be ordering restocks from Avery Elle, Lawn Fawn and Mama Elephant this week if they have their Christmas products available yet as many have sold out at their end too. It's also the start of the month so we'll start to get emails to order all the new monthly releases from MFT, Neat and Tangled, Mama Elephant and Concord and 9th.
We've also kicked off a new colour challenge for October based on Halloween colours in our customer only facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/shcvips/ You have to provide an order number to gain access to this group so find one before you click the link as you have to answer the questions to get in.
Right, time for breakfast and then a little weekend overtime........
Catch you later
Tara
I stamped all the elves in one go straight from the sheet just using a bit of tape to temporarily fix it in my stamping platform before colouring them all with pencils and die cutting them with the matching dies.
I kept the colours minimal - just 3 shades of green for their dungarees, hats and boots and one red for the shirts and accessories with tiny highlights of yellow and blue, the uniformity of colours gives the idea of a tree and decorations.
To make it into a card I did a soft blue sky blended with ink leaving a white snowy hill to stand them on and then just lined them up adding the ball on top from the same set as the tree topper with some rays of light which were taken from Concord and 9th Merry and Bright stamp set which is where I took the sentiments from too.
There are so many little agenda stamps that would work for this idea - I might be making lots of weird trees for Christmas this year!
NEWS FROM THE STORE
Last week was crazy busy both in the store and because I had lots of medical appointments and a whole afternoon with the accountants as its time to pay lots of taxes so I didn't manage to get any of the stock loaded to store that I had planned to last week.
So I am working a little today to play catch up and Flora and Fauna will be live today.
We got the new washi tapes from AlteNew late on Friday so will get those processed today and they will hopefully be live today or tomorrow.
We also got the latest release from Lil' Inker Designs - I will work on that tomorrow.
We also have some new Christmas themed papers and accessories from Echo Park / Carta Bella which I will get sorted as soon as I can.
The new release from Waffle Flower crafts is in transit and will be in store this week.
We will be hopefully be ordering restocks from Avery Elle, Lawn Fawn and Mama Elephant this week if they have their Christmas products available yet as many have sold out at their end too. It's also the start of the month so we'll start to get emails to order all the new monthly releases from MFT, Neat and Tangled, Mama Elephant and Concord and 9th.
We've also kicked off a new colour challenge for October based on Halloween colours in our customer only facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/shcvips/ You have to provide an order number to gain access to this group so find one before you click the link as you have to answer the questions to get in.
Right, time for breakfast and then a little weekend overtime........
Catch you later
Tara