Away in a manger

Hey, hey! I hope you had a lovely Christmas. We had a calm family day with some yummy food and good movies. Just the way we like it. <3

I know I'm a day late with this card, but I still hope you can enjoy it. 

For a long time I had been looking for a cute nativity stamp set, but none seemed right, but when saw this one from Paperbabe stamps I knew that was the one. I like that it gives you many possibilities on how to put the elements together.

On this card I created the scene with the holy family and a couple of animals. I raised different parts on foam pads to give the card some dimension. I did the colouring with polychromos. On a seperate piece of paper I stamped a sentiment (the sentiment is a stamp from Hobby Lobby) and glued it above the stamped scene. I finished the card up with two crystals.

I wish you a wonderful day and happy holidays! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

Paperbabe stamps: Anything goes

Pixie's crafty workshop: Challenge 418 - snippets + Christmas/New Year theme (the snippet used is that light blue piece of paper, I think it was just about a cm longer than what I used on a card)

NBUS: Challenge 33 (I've never used this nativity stamp set before)

Girlz creative: Christmas

Ally's angels: Anything goes

Mugs and kisses

Hey hey! How are you doing? Are you ready for the weekend? I sure am. We are meeting with some friends so I think it'll be a fun one. Do you have any plans?

Before I show you the card I want to tell you about a yummy crafty candy my mom has on her blog. Click here if you want to check it out. :)

So, now let me show you my card.

I used quite a lot of scraps on this card, e.g. the wite corrugated cardboard, the colourful Christmas tree paper and even the green stars are cut from those small pieces of paper. It feels really great using those small paper scraps and snippets.

The image I used for this card is from The greeting farm and it's called Holiday Anya 6. Isn't she adorable? She's one of my favourite TGF stamps. :) I coloured her with polychromos. On the mug I put a silver snowflake sticker that's been in my stash forever. The sentiment comes with the stamp too.

The triangles paper was actually just a white cardstock over which I stamped with a stamp from Paper babe stamps. I embellished the card with some round and star shaped sequins.

Have a wonderful weekend!

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

Ally's angels: Anything goes

Stempelgarten: Favourite stamp

Pixie's Crafty workshop: Challenge 415

Creatalicious: Anything goes (optional stars)

Coffee loving cardmakers: Fall/winter coffee lovers bloghop

Don't be afraid to sparkle

Hello everybody! How are you doing? I hope you are staying safe and healthy. The last two weeks have been pretty hectic for me and I barely had any time for crafting. However, collecting minutes and staying up late(r) I still managed to finish the card I am about to show you. 

This card is pretty simple (especially for me lol), but I am still happy with how it turned out, even though I didn't use any design paper or embellishments (shocking, I know - I can't even believe it myself lol). Originally I wanted to use gold glitter paper, but I didn't have any at home and I didn't have time to go to the store and buy some. So I used some of that beautiful gold washi tape to create the background and some corrugated cardstock to give the card some dimension. I really wanted to use the "Don't be afraid to sparkle" stamp from Paperbabe stamps, but I didn't want to just stamp it. For some reason I was determined to emboss the sentiment with gold embossing powder. Well, my embossing pad's days are counted, but somehow I still managed to get it to work just enough to emboss the sentiment and some stars, which are also a Paperbabe stamp. After the stars were embossed I cut them out with my scissors. From a gold cardstock I cut a star and embossed it with polka dot embossing folder. I glued that on a piece of cardstock and after that put it on a card. And that's it. It really was that simple.

I would like to enter my card to the following challenges:

Paperbabe stamps: Sketch

Word art Wednesday: Anything goes (with sentiment)

Let's craft and create: Anything goes (optional: use paper strips instead of ribbon)

Creative inspirations: Anything goes

Cardz TV: Anything goes