Hello everyone. Only 3 days till Christmas and I’m almost ready. 😆 Anyway, I wanted to pop in quickly to share a set of last minute Christmas cards.
Rather than buying a Christmas sloth stamp set, I stretched the adorable Be Slothy stamp set from Time For Tea Designs instead. Just like I did here stretching the otter stamp set, I added the Santa hat from Gerda Steiner Designs On the Table stamp set to make them festive and Christmassy. All images were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on scraps of Xpress It cardstock, coloured with Copic markers then die cut out with their matching dies.
The snowglobe was created with the Snowglobe Bases and Circle Basics dies from Memory Box. The larger circle and base were die cut from Xpress It cardstock and shading was added to the base with cool gray Copic markers. Partial die cutting was used to shorten the base for a better fit. The sentiment from My Favorite Things Bitty Holiday Wishes was heat embossed on the base with silver embossing powder.
The circle die one size smaller was then used to die cut from leftover pieces of the gorgeous Blurry Flurries pattern paper from Whimsy Stamps. Love this paper and couldn’t let them go to waste (right, Alice?). 😉 They make the perfect snowglobe background, don’t you think?
Found some blue and aqua panels (there were not enough of one colour) from my stash for my background. Blueprint Sketch and Peacock Feathers distress inks (DI) were then blended on the blue and aqua panels, respectively, for an ombré-ish effect. 😉 White gouache paint splatters were added for a snowy look.
Assembled onto a white card base, then added snow over the sloths with a white gel pen to finish.
Thank you for joining me today. Have a Merry Christmas!
Challenges:
Pixie’s Snippets Playground - #418 Christmas/New Year’s (all papers were snippets from my stash)
21 comments:
I'd never have thought of a sloth being a Christmas animal. Love how you added the hat and sentiment.
Merry Christmas ♥
A really adorable set of Sloth festive makes and great use of your paper snippets.
Hope to see you up in the Snippets Playground Treehouse for some mulled wine and mince pies after you've finished playing on the swings!
Hugs, Sarn xxx
Sweet beautiful cards with the adorable sloths!! Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
Fun idea to add the Christmas hats to those adorable sloths. Wonderful festive and fun Christmas cards, love the snow globe, the papers and those splats! Thinking of you Trina x.
I love the way you stretched one stamp into many adorable different looks. I wish you Christmas Blessings and good health. Merry Christmas, Trina.
Beautiful, Trina! Such a great set of cards, and I love that bold and brilliant blue to set your merry sloths off - perfect! Thanks so much for playing at Sparkles!
WOW! Incredible set of lovely snowball cards. I love how you used the contrast to accentuate the ball. Stunning cards, Trina.
Happy Christmas, lots of health, peace and joy.
BożenA xx
Wow, you did it again, Trina! You're sooo good at combing stamps and dies from different sets! These sloths are so adorable with their Santa hats! Your gorgeously ink blended backgrounds with white Gouache snow perfectly match the pattern paper! Great attention to details as always, like not forgetting adding a slight curve to the sentiment on the snowglobe base!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family!
Hideko xx
What a fun way to stretch your stamps, Trina! And your inked backgrounds are fantastic as always! Thank you for the beautiful snowflake Christmas card with that awesome ink blending! Have a wonderful Christmas, my friend!
These Christmas sloths are so adorable Trina!! I love the different colours of backgrounds ... all of which are gorgeous colours. The fun images with the Santa hats are so cute inside the snowglobe! xx
Well done, Trina!! A perfect use of that beautiful Blurry Flurries paper for the snow-globes balls!! ( Waste isn't on my vocabulary, what means? :D :D LOL )
LOVE so much this set of cards, you are always so clever stretching stamps and dies to create something new! The Santa's hat looks fabulous on the sloths heads! And LOVE your gouache paint splatters!! I tried but made some BIG splatters, not too good as yours!
Sending you my best wishes (even if I'm late, I know... :/ )for a joyful and heartfelt Christmas!
Hugs!
Such an inspiring set of cards - I need encouragement to use more of what I have and not want to j=buy so much new! Very cute and great colors! Thanks for joining us at Sparkles.
Oh, Trina, these take cute to a whole new level! What a sensationally adorable set of sloth themed holiday greetings. Love them to absolute bits!
Autumn Zenith 🧡 Witchcrafted Life
Fabulous set, Trina - so clever to give the sloths a Santa hat!!
Love your adorable Santa sloths! Great cards, Trina. Thanks for playing again at Christmas Kickstart, Jo x
Aw! These are sooo cute!! Fun cards!
Thanks for sharing with us at Sparkles Christmas Challenge!
As always Trina - your cards are fabulous! So clever to dress the sloth for Christmas fun and frolics - does a sloth even do fun and frolics I wonder?
Hugs
Di xx
A super cute cards. Thank you for sharing with us at THAIC Challenge. Marlene
Fabulous collection of cards, Trina! I love your details and how each one is so unique! Thanks for making me smile :)
Your sloths are so cute. Fabulous cards, thank you for joining in at the Cutie Pie challenge. Lynne DT
Fabulous selection of cards, super cute! Thanks for joining us at the Cutie Pie Challenge:)
Wendy DT x
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