Warm Winter Wishes from Mr Frosty

Hello Nomad friends.  Rolling out Rubber Dance's fun and sweet Mr Frosty stamp today and I've given him a beautiful Aztec paint sunset for a backdrop.  Don't see so many of these at this time of year but a girl is allowed to dream....... Sunsets I mean, not snowmen LOL.

Experimenting with some photo staging.  How'd I do bwahahahahaahaaha.  

OK, aztec paint applied with an old credit card and cut with a fancy die.  Mr Frosty stamped, fussy cut with side extensions and coloured with distress markers.  I stamped two sentiments from the Frosty Friends stamp set and edged my snowdrift with black ink.

Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget to check out the Rubber Dance blog and shop for inspiration and awesome stamps.  

HUGZ

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Mr Spoon

Hello Nomad friends.  I always fancied being an astronaut.  Or a jet plane pilot.  Or a tree surgeon.  Well, keep your options open I say........  Loving this huge astronaut, that I picked up in a pre-christmas sale at Funky Fossil, and first time trying the floating technique, inspired by the lift challenge.

I made my floating circle with scraps of green and blue glitter paper and a scrap of acetate packaging.  Then I need to pop up my astronaut as well over the black glitter background.  His air hose is a grunge die from Studio Light.

Thanks for dropping by.  HUGZ

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95% Chance of Snow

Hello Nomad friends.  I finally succumbed and bought this sizzix Snowscape colorize die.  This one is so fun and easy to use and I hit the scraps and found this lovely slightly textured purple paper that I have had for a while read very very long time.  I decided to make a snowscape with slightly alternative colours.  If the sky turns shades of purple it's a good indication of snow to come....... 

The snowman is also sizzix.  I mounted my die cut pieces on a white textured base card and stamped the tiny text stamp is from Gummiapan.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Jingle Belles Rock- Something Old Something New new snowscape, old snowman

Starry Starry Night

Hello Nomad friends.  How's it going??   I made a snowy scene card.  That's close enough to snow for my liking.

I've used the lovely Memory Box Country Road Oval and Merry Christmas Noted Script dies cut from a scrap of gold card.  I layered the Country Road Oval with various snippets including a blue metallic sky embossed with Memory Box Grand Galaxy embossing folder.  I used sharpies to colour the trees and also a gold sharpie to colour the lights in the church and the road.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Valentino

Hello Nomad friends.  The snow has stopped.  The rain has begun.  There is a lot of weather this winter.  Time for a splash of red to warm us up.  

 

I made a fancy base card by doing a bit of 1 and 2 inch scoring from both vertical edges. I took a piece of red card and cut the top with Kort og Godt notebook edge die.  First time out of the packet!!  I used a vintage kort og Godt picture for my pretty lady and a sentiment that says my treasure.  The hearts are Studio Light dies.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Paw Prints

Hello Nomad friends.  Sharing a little sparkle this evening inspired by the Poppystamp challenge.

I wanted to try out this unused Poppystamp Arched Deco Plate.  Magnificent die.  Note to self: add adhesive backing before cutting!   All that detail was a little tricky to glue after the fact, but I managed, onto a lovely cream glitter card panel.  I die cut Whittle Cutie Dog, also unused!!, from kraft card and gave him a little bit of colour on his nose.  I added a small scrap of thick card behind his ear to make it stand out a bit.  Then I went hunting for a sentiment and found this beautiful one from Aall&Create, which is also new from the A4 dog stamp set!!  Gotta love a big stamp and using NBUS!  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Happy New Pig

Hello Nomad friends.  This could be the fastest conversion of NBUS to US in my life!!  I just got a delivery of Funky Fossil stamps and dies and ooh, these steampunk animals are just adorbs.  So I made a new year card with sparkly fireworks.

 Uh, OK, you are looking at the 2025 aren't you and feeling like you hit time warp.  Well, that's all De Egels idea!!  They wanted new new years cards so asked for the 2025 to be visible.  I understand that, and actually it's a cool idea cos now I am ahead of the game!!   There comes a point in the year where you need to give up sending xmas cards and a few New Years span the gap.  I rarely have them ready, but now I do!!!   

The background firework paper is a new favourite for me.  I bought some scrapbook kits from Carol Wilson in a sale and the papers are mostly gorgeous.  Cool and unusual designs with some glitter and embossed highlights.  Really pretty.  But New Year needs bling so I ran a bead of glitter glue around the paper panel.   I cut Funky Fossil Pipework Numbers using the dies and stamped, coloured and fussy cut the steampunk pig.  Awesome.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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