WARM holiday wishes: Festive Friday!

WARM holiday wishes: Festive Friday!

I LOVE Festive Fridays!  

(EDITED to add MUCH more at the bottom of this post!)

Time for a new Christmas Card!  

I love a simple card that takes just a few stamps, 

a few sheets of paper, and you can make a lot of cards in very little time.

Since this is paper pieced, there is minimal coloring and I used only 5 Copics.

2 shades of yellow for the hair, 2 for the face and a red for the rest.

To keep this card even simpler, you can eliminate the fussy cutting by stamping on white paper and placing 

the patterned paper farther above the image.

(Myself, I LOVE Fussy Cutting, I am weird that way!!)

The challenge this week is Trigger Based, a simple photo an key word.

I did not use the key word, instead the feeling of the trigger photo and a peaceful feel in the card.

Quietly she stands in her little red clothes.

Most likely waiting for her friends to join her to have a bit of a snowball fight!

Reminds me of myself when I was very young - I was quite the snow baby!  

[Still must go to the mountains every year!]

Check out the Designer sampling of Friday Festive Inspiration Cards, 

[HERE] and PLAY ALONG too!

Such fun to get a jump on the encroaching holiday!

Supplies:

Girl Stamp: Jill Penny Designs for Stampotique

Sentiment: Savvystamps.com

DP: Blue Paper :Me and my  Big Ideas Blue with White Glitter Dot Paper 

from JoAnns Fabric and Craft Store

Red Paper: Unknown Scrap 

Copics: Lipstick Red for Clothes, Skin White for the face, Flesh Pink for the cheeks, 

Hair: Light Yellow, Yellow

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Festive Friday: Trigger Challenge!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesdays: Anything Goes!

The more and more that I thought about making a NON Fussy Cut version of this card, the more I realized I have enough paper left to make about 10 more cards or so.

Here is my FINAL Card that I made several of:

(NON Fussy Cut)

And PUT a bird on it!

This is how I came to it:

SUPPLIES Gathered:

Girl Stamp: Jill Penny Designs for Stampotique

Sentiment: Savvystamps.com

Unknown birdie and trees stamp set (pictured)

Supplies: 5 sheets Cardinal Red Cardstock

13 Sheets White (a few extra for error) 3.75 x 8.8

(Michaels in the US sells this size in precut stacks packaged.)

1 12x12 DP Snow

1 8.5x11 DP For coat

White Signo Pen (optional can use pencil)

Trimmer, scissors, Red Twine or  floss, Foam Tape, Quickie Glue Pen or Glue Stick/Tape Runner

Copics

I cut all 13 3.75 x 8.8 to 5 inches

5 inches for the card insert, and the remaining for card front.

The SNOW DP was cut into 3.75 x 2 inch strips and adhered to the top of the cardinal cardstock.

I made a template on a card front by trimming down slightly to have a snow "wave"

repeated for all.

The girl image was stamped slightly under the wave beginning and repeated for all.

Image stamped  (inking only center of the stamp) on DP using for paper pieced coat

Cut all "coats" adhere with Quickie Glue Pen (or tape runner/glue stick)

Color hair start with lighter yellow to fill and edge with darker

color scarf and stockings

Skin white for face, then circles of fruit pink for cheeks, repeat for all

Stamp a majig Sentiment and add twine/floss bow

Foam tape backing

I needed to run to the store to get more red floss, so before I went I asked Scott what he thought

Now once I showed my husband my idea for the final card, 

he told he loved everything, however, she looked lonely.

Maybe add a little puppy or a bunny.

I mulled this over all the way to get the floss and back.

Maybe he was right.  I scanned my stamps.

Eureka, I found this set with mini birds. So I added the cardinals

(Of course my husband is from Missouri, though it is not the state bird, it should be they have so many Cardinals.)

So I added the Cardinals!!

Repeat until done!

Final Card.

My husband was right. 

So I told him he was brilliant!