25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 8

Good morning!

Hope you're all doing well today.  It's day 8 of this 25 days of Christmas challenge that Linda & Kathy enrolled me in to doing.  It's actually been quite fun.  Makes me get to the craft table to make stuff and I'm proud to say I'm using a lot of my old stash to create these projects.  (Yay me!!)

Over the weekend I tried to finish more projects from the La-La Land Palooza retreat as well as more Christmas cards.  I'll share more of the retreat projects once I finish the bigger projects.  Still have a few more images to color and last details to finish.  The Christmas projects will be shared but for today I thought I'd share this card...

Here's my Asian version of Christmas.  Featuring Haruyo from Sister Stamps.  I used some pretty pretty washi paper and matted each red & black Tsumugi paper from Hanko Designs.  I had some left over red snowflakes so I added one to the right corner with a green gem.  The sentiment is a laser cut saying from Island Scrapbooking.  I separated them from each other, which made it much easier to center.  I'm so happy with how this one turned out.

In case you were wondering about the supplies used, most are from Hanko Designs:
Holiday Plum Blossom, Green Sakura, bright red Tsumugi card, black Tsumugi cardstock, Island Scrapbooking laser cut sentiment, CC Cutters snowflake, Haruyo from Sister Stamps.

I'll be back for another Christmas share tomorrow.  Until then, thank you for stopping by!
xoxo,
Leanne

A Christmas card - Holiday Anya 4

Hey everyone!

**So excited, my card was featured on the Wow'd Me Wednesday post at TGF!!**

Happy Sunday!  Hope you're all having a great weekend.  I spent all day Saturday in a gym reffing volleyball, so today I'm definitely going to relax and put in some crafting time.  I recently received a bunch of new TGF stamps and couldn't wait to ink up the adorable Holiday Anya 4.  I think she is very sweet.  This is officially my very first Christmas card of the season...

I had some fun with some mixed media sprays I purchased at a local scrapbook store.  They are the new sprays from Prima and I picked up 3 to try.  I was excited to try them out as soon as I saw a sample of what they can do.  After this project I just might go back to pick up some more colors.

To create the background
I cut down a white piece of Strathmore Smooth Bristol paper in to a 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" square.  Taking the washi tape I taped off about a 1/2" border all the way around.  Next I layed down the stencil on top and started to spritz first the Peony and then the Lime green colors on to the paper.  Once everything was dried I pulled off the stencil and then the washi paper.  Love the framed look of it and the cool thing about these sprays is the nice shimmer they give off.  Here is the finished background...  Pretty cool! 

As my stencil was drying I pulled out the discontinued TGF snowflake die and cut two from the same Strathmore paper pad.  Below is a picture of the background with the sprays, stencil and die.  This was a really easy process and I love the result!!

The sentiment is a laser cut word from Island Scrapbooking.  I used another spray, Tea stain, to spritz on top of the word making it go from white to this really pretty shimmery light gold. 

I colored up Anya in red and had fun with the Christmas tree.  After coloring I fussy cut her out. Isn't she a cutie?  I could easily make a few more with her as the focal point.  

Holiday Anya 4

I glued her down in the center of the card instead of popping her up.  I'm probably going to mail it so having it sent flat makes it easier on shipping.

And for those of you who like sparkle and bling, I actually sprayed the whole front with my go-to pearlized spray.  Although you can't see it in my pictures I'm sure the recipient will be able to enjoy it. 

So happy I've gotten at least one Christmas card under my so called crafty belt, let's see what I can come up with next.  Thanks so much for stopping by!  Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

Challenges:

Christmas card challenge: Anything Goes

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