Pic'n'Mix Christmas!



Morning! I thought I'd do a bit of a combo card - there are a fair few products on this project but I wanted to show that not having Christmas sets shouldn't ever be a problem.

Let's play spot the set again!!

First up..Louie's ABC's. It's size is just brilliant - I've used it for both cards and layouts and it's one of my most used die sets.

The Cole's ABC's dies are not in stock right now- but a perfect substitute for 'world' would be Quinn's die set or Paper Smooches 'Alphawhimsy'.

 

I love the Snow Days paper, that I've used to back the die-cut negative space and also die-cut the 'world' out of

 You can see the vellum trees cut out.. you could use this scalloped set for the same effect



The Snowflakes are from this set

and the cute little musical notes are from the Year Four set



 

And - lastly but by no means least, are the inks I've used- they're both Hero Arts ones- one is the gorgeous silver one

and the Pale Tomato ink

 

 



Well- hope you've enjoyed this 'little bits of everything' on a project. Take a look at your stash and see what seasonal projects you can create with non-Christmassy stash.

See you next week,

 

Keren xx

Mystery Christmas Set!

Morning, morning! I was hunting through my sets and decided to do a Christmas card but using an utterly non seasonal set. Guessed which set?

Milk and Cookies! So which other sets did you use, I hear you ask? None! As soon as I looked carefully at the set., I saw the straw and immediately thought candy canes! Due to the perfect flexible nature of the photopolymer, these babies can be curled & altered. I really took the straw to the max- it only just stayed in that position. Once I curled and stamped to the left, I curled the other way & stamped again.

I trimmed out most of the middle of the milk bottle & around the edge, so we could see the canes showing through.

The wreath? How did I make that? See the closeup...

I used these two elements-

The little circle is the centre of the wreath. The single line (which is normally used as the meniscus) 

I simply curved around a little on my block and put one end on the circle & just systematically moved it around.
Just shows how with a little sneaky thinking you can create something completely unintended from the set.
Go and twist your sets! See what you can come up and PLEASE post a link - we would seriously love to see how you do it too!

Until next Tuesday!

love Keren xx