My Favorite Things - October Release Preview

 

Welcome to my blog and the first day of showing you a card made with the brand new release from MFT which you can buy at 10am Eastern tomorrow the 31st October.  My card today reveals the new Stacey Yacula illustrated stamp set called 'Christmas Characters'.  Here are the products used in the making of this project:-

Christmas Characters

Blueprints 27 Die-namics

This is a one layer card and whilst there are coordinating dies for Christmas Characters I didn't use them for this card.

I started this project by stamping the images on masking paper using Memento Ink and carefully fussy cutting them out.   I stamped the images in the foreground first and then overlaid the corresponding image in masking paper.  I then continued to stamp the images behind the characters and cover those and finally the images in the very back which I also covered.

Before ink blending the sky I made sure my masking was stuck down snuggly and then I used Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet and Black Soot Distress Oxide Inks to blend the sky -  a favourite combination of mine.  I splattered the pretty sky with white acrylic paint loosened with water and die cut the panel using A2 Stitched Rectangles Stax Die-namics.  I popped the panel in my Misti and stamped the sentiment.

I coloured the scene using the following Copic markers:-

Elf/Penguin - T6, T5, T4, W0, W00, R000, Y38, Y19, R39, R29

Moose/Mouse - W5, W4, W3, W00, R000, T7, E44

Blushes - R22, R21, R00

House - C3, C1, C0, C00, RV0000, BG11, E44, E43

Fir Trees - YG95, BG93, BG90

I highlighted with a white gel pen.

To finish the card I mounted the panel to fractionally larger panel in a dark grey.   If you  have A2 Stitched Rectangles Stax Die-namics in both sets 1 and 2 you can easily make these close in size panels which kind of frame your scene.

I attached the panel to a white die-cut of the Blueprints 27 Die-namics and backed this with white craft foam and adhered it to an A2 white panel then to the card base.   My cards feel very sturdy and substantial when handled, I love that quality feel.

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