News — #christmascards

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...

Hello all friends and Welcome to The Picket Fence Studios Christmas Countdown!   Christmas is approaching and we want to make sure we have all  the cards needed  for this magical time. I make a list of people to whom I want to give a card, or tags for packages to be prepared, how do you do it? Today I show you this card I made with the no line technique, colored with pencils. I chose this very funny Santa that has a very long list of names, the stamp is Name off the Good  For the background I used  Winter Wonderland Trees to...

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, Picket Fence friends!! Brenda here with you today to share a sweet winter scene card featuring the Frolicking Winter Friends Stamp Set!! I began by stamping the adorable mice from the Frolicking Winter Friends Stamp Set onto white cardstock with Black Hybrid Ink. I colored them with Copic markers, added highlights with a white gel pen, then cut them out with the Coordinating Dies. The background was created by stamping the snow and snowbanks, also from the Frolicking Winter Friends Stamp Set onto a panel of white cardstock with Black Hybrid Ink. It was also colored with Copic markers....

Hello dear friends and have a great week everyone! Today I show you a super colorful and fun card with this sentiment as the main character. For my snowy scene I used this die set  I've Been Goodish Word Dies  I colored the whole word with markers to highlight the phrase. I chose the Frolicking Winter Friends  set with these adorable mice playing with the letters. For the landscape I used  Slim Line Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Word Topper Die  cut that completes my landscape. I hope you like my inspiration, see you next time. Claudia