Christmas All Year Round - #2

Welcome back to the second Magnolia-licious Christmas All Year Round Blog Hop. I'm so excited to be participating again and big thanks to all the gals who participated and all who visited and left their comments in our first one. So I hope you'll enjoy this one and will be inspired to get some Christmas cards made for next year or at the very least, get some ideas for your cards for next year.

If you arrived here from Aletha's blog, then you're right on track. If you are starting here then you need to go back to Julie's blog to begin the hop.

My card was inspired by Chris Dark's work. Here is a link to her fabulous blog! She is an amazing artist. In fact her work is featured on the cover of the very first edition of Magnolia Ink Magazine and she has some beautiful cards on the inside also. So I pretty much cased the card she did, and it has really inspired me to work more with my Distress Inks. Thanks Chris for such inspiration...

Here is my version, using Jolly Tilda (#3005) and the Snowy Circle (#482). You can purchase these from the Magnolia-licious store.



Here's a closer view of Tilda sitting of the circle...



I cut out an extra pair of arms so that I could pop them up over the presents. The circle was colored with Distress inks as well and then I went over it with Stardust Stickles. I also painted some Startdust Stickles (my fav!) and kind of brushed over several places on the image and especially her socks.

Here is a side view to show her arms popped up...



The flowers, pearl spray and ribbon are all from my stash. The pearls in the centers of the white flowers were sprayed to match the color I needed with my ABS and Copic Marker. The Snowflakes are made with my MS punch and painted with even more Stickles. The white flowers are made with my new Nellie Snellen punch.



I didn't know how to finish the inside of my card, so I decided to repeat the presents by using Basket Filled with Presents (#446) It is also water colored with Distress inks.

Here is the inside of my card...

For the bottom portion I just stamped the Snowy Circle again, on Magnolia dp, water colored it and used Stickles. All my panels are Magnolia dp, sewn on my machine and distresses with Vintage photo. I also used Nestabilities Large Circle Die and Large Scalloped Circle die.



Here is a closeup of the basket...



Right, now it's time to hop on over to Carole's blog and see what a delicious card she has made. Thanks for doing the Blog Hop today...