Believe in the Magic

Hello!  It's Sara, from Much Love, Sara. Before I begin today's inspiration post, I'm super excited to announce the winner of our collaboration with My Favorite Things.  Congratulations to Greta H!  

Have you started your Christmas cards yet?  I somehow have managed to have mine ready to mail - which NEVER seems to happen this early!  If you're still planning your cards out, Picket Fence has a bunch of great Christmas stamps and dies to choose from. Today I'm sharing a fun card I made using some of those Christmas items.   

The Santa on today's card, comes from the Picket Fence Studios Believe in the Magic Stamp Set.  I stamped the image onto white card stock, using a light colored ink for no-line coloring.  Then, I colored in the image using colored pencils, and a white gel pen for highlights.  Once the coloring was done, I fussy cut the image, and set it aside - far aside.  I was not risking another craft fail with this year's coloring of Santa.  

While I still had the Believe in the Magic Stamp Set out, I stamped the sentiment onto vellum, and heat embossed it in gold.  The sentiment was also fussy cut. 

 

On another piece of white card stock, I taped the circle from the 2-1/2" Blending Stencil.  I then used my Life Changing Blender Brushes, to blend inks onto the panel.  Once I had the blend how I wanted, I blended a lighter ink right around the edge of the circle, before pulling up the stencil, and blending the same ink into the masked off portion of card stock.  I again covered the "moon" with the stencil, and sprinkled water droplets, and some watered down Sparkle Paper Glitz. 

While that panel dried, I die cut the Slim Line Our Town Cover Plate die from black cardstock, and then cut a second strip of the house from gray cardstock.  I added the die cuts on top of the ink blended panel, and trimmed the excess off.  The panel was matted with black cardstock.  I filled in the windows of the little houses to create the golden glow.  

Before assembling the card, I dry embossed the front panel of the card base, with the Arctic Winter Stencil. This can be done on most machines, with the correct plate sandwich. 

I hope you enjoyed today's card.  Find more cards using products from the October Release over on my blog.  Have a fantastic Tuesday! 

Much Love,                                                 

Sara