News — #christmas

We are counting down the days to Christmas here at Picket Fence Studios by sharing a very merry  project each day leading up to the 25th.  Nancy here today with a Christmas card I actually created back in August. I work on Christmas cards all year long yet some how I still manage to be short when it it is time to address and mail. Does that happen to you?  I stamped the image from the Christmas Hello set which is part of the Animal Crackers line onto Copic friendly cardstock, cut out with the matching die and colored with...

Michelle here, continuing the countdown with 22 days left!  I am the ultimate Christmas shopper proscatinator! Every year I tell myself this will be the year I have all my shopping done/ wrapped the week before Christmas. My saving grace is the fact that my Christmas cards are done. Leaves plenty of time to shop and decorate the house! For today's Christmas card I used the following products: Seasonal Christmas Flowers Stamp Set Seasonal Christmas Flowers Coordinating Die Winter Rings 6x6 Stencil A2 Evergreens on a Hill Cover Plate Die A Christmas Classic- Sequin Mix I inked up some teal...

Happy Sunday! Eugy here and today I’m sharing these two Christmas cards I made using non traditional color palette. I started making my cards with background preparation. I blended some distress oxides and added splashes of water and white gouache. The backgrounds turned out to be very cute and delicate, and I wanted to add some contrast. So I collected all my dark-colored materials and started creating.  The base of the first card I cut out with with the second largest die from the 5x7 Double Stitched Layering Rectangle Die set from the November release. After that, I added some dimension using Christmas Ornaments Stencil and the Blackboard Paper Glaze Velvet.  Then...

Hello there! Michelle here, sharing a non traditional take on a Nutcracker. while scrolling through Google images, I came across some pastel water colored images I wanted to recreate.  This A2 Tall Nutcracker Die, is my FAVORITE new product!!! I used pink, gold, white and black cardstock to dress up the nutcracker. I backed him on vellum cardstock. I dressed up his hat with a holly sprig from Santa's Hot Cocoa Mug Die and used the snowflake die for the background. I inked up the background with distress oxide inks in shades broken china and stormy sky. I added some splashes of...