Hey Crafty friends! It's been a while since I posted on my blog but I just had to share this card with you here as I just love these cute little Gingerbread Agenda stamps from Mama Elephant. I couldn't resist making a couple of tags to go with the card too.
To start the card I cut a panel of smooth white heavyweight cardstock to just larger than 5.5" x 4.25" and blended on ink using Distress Inks in Festive Berries, Worn Lipstick and Spun Sugar. I applied Spun Sugar all over the panel first, then applied Worn Lipstick all around the edges trying to keep the centre from getting too dark, then I applied the Festive Berries around the edge, carefully drawing the colour in with my blending brush. To add some interest to the panel I smooshed some Festive Berries on to my mat, loosened it with a few drops of water and then splattered on ink all over the panel with a small paint brush. I set the panel aside to dry and in the meantime ink blended on Spun Sugar all over another piece of white cardstock measuring 4" x 5.25". Once my ink splattered panel was dry I ran it through my die cutting machine along with the Mama Elephant Little Globies Cover Plate. I also ran the Little Globies Cover Plate through my machine again with a piece of white heavyweight cardstock. With the plain white negative pieces I used the stitched hill borders from the Landscape Trio die set to create some snowy hills to sit inside my snow globe cut outs. I set all my die cutting aside to work on stamping and colouring my Gingerbread people.
I used my Silhouette machine to cut out all the little Gingerbread Agendas. I then stamped them and coloured them with my Copic markers. The pinks and reds I used are my favourite combos and I use them a lot in my projects!
Before assembling the card I took some glittery gold cardstock and die cut the bases for the snow globes. I applied some liquid adhesive to the back of the snow globe panel and adhered it to the panel covered with Spun Sugar Distress Ink. I then placed the stitched snowy borders in to the snow globe openings and adhered the gold glittery bases to the front of the card. I used my Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen to apply a thin layer of shimmer on to the hills and then glued my gingerbreads in to place.
To go with the card I created the cute tags using some more Mama Elephant goodies. I used the smallest tag die in the Tags A Lot die set and applied the same Distress Inks, along with some splatters. With the some left over ink blended cardstock from the card I cut two hexagonal shapes from the Winter Taggins die set. I also created two stitched hills by die cutting a white hexagon shape and using the same hill borders to create snowy hills. I cut two snowflake tags from white cardstock with the Winter Taggins set plus 2 white bows for layering and also 2 bows from gold glittery cardstock. The gold elements helped to tie the two projects together. Before assembling all the tags together I stamped a sentiment from the Mama Elephant Mixed Holiday Greetings stamp set in Versafine
Clair Nocturn Ink. All my layers were adhered together with liquid adhesive and then my little gingerbread people on top. I used some bakers twine through the holes at the top. As a final touch I used a white Gelly Roll pen to add dots to the cheeks and some highlights to make things pop!
I really hope you enjoyed this project! Please feel free to drop me a message if you would like anything explained or have any questions... I love getting messages and spreading the crafty love!
Hopefully I'll be back soon soon with another festive project to share xxx
