Vintage pick-up truck slimline card

 Hello everyone !

This vintage pick-up truck is such a great die set to use on Christmas cards and it is a die you can find at Elizabeth Craft Designs. Here's a card made with this die set.

Here's a quick tutorial on how to make this card.

Step 1: The card base

• Cut a White Soft Finish 9 X 8 inches piece of cardstock , fold in half at 8 inches to make a 9 X 4 inches slimline card.
• Cut a 8 3/4 X 3 1/2 inches red cardstock rectangle  and adhere on the card base with some Clear Double Side Adhesive Tape.
• Cut 2 White Soft Finish Cardstock pieces measuring 8 1/2 X 3 1/2 inches.
• On the top part of one of the white piece, using a sponge finger dauber  and some Distress Oxide, make a night sky (colors used here are Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch and Black Soot).

Step 2: The village

• In the remaining white rectangle, die cut one strip of the house from the die set Village Edges #1691, on the right side of the card.

• White some Fine Pointed Scissors, cut a hill shape on the left side.
• In the back of the houses, glue a piece of yellow cardstock.
• Mixed a small part of Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter with some Transparent Crystal Craft Drops. Using a small brush, apply the mix in the windows. Let dry.
• Using a make-up applicator, apply here and there some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide.
• Adhere the house strip on the card base with some Double Side Adhesive Tape, leaving a small opening to insert the trees from the next step.

Step 3: The pick-up truck

• Using the Planner Essential 16 - Christmas Tree Page #1677 die set, die cut all the parts of the truck, the tree to put in the back of the truck and 5 other trees, in the colored cardstock of your choice.

• Adhere all the parts of the truck.
• On the trees trunks, draw a line with a brown marker.
• Dip the edges of the trees in some Kid Choice Glue and in some Glitterbitz Frosty Sparkle,

Putting everything together:

• Place the truck on the card and the trees in the background.
• With some a fine pointed white marker, draw some lines on the truck (like snow traces).

And voilà ! 

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Santa Tags

Hello everyone !

Today I present to you a special delivery I made for someone you needed tags. What better way to say Christmas than Santa in a chimney !

Here are the steps for making those tags:

Step 1: Tag base

• Using some White Soft Finish Cardstock die cut twice the smallest tag from the set Planner Essentials 26 - Pocket 4 - Tags & Toppers #1744.
• Put one tag aside to cover the back when all the inking is done.

• On the front tag, using a finger dauber sponge, ink the top part of the tag to make a night sky with distress oxide (colors used here : Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Salty Ocean, Blue Print Sketch and Black Soot).
• Once done with the colors, sprinkle some water here and there.
• Let dry.

Step 2: The chimney

• Cut a light grey piece of cardstock 2 1/4 X 1 1/2.
• Using a embossing folder with some brick pattern, embossed the grey cardstock.
• Using a finger dauber sponge, ink very lightly the front of the bricks with some Weathered Wood Distress Oxide.

• Cut a dark grey piece of cardstock 2 3/4 X 3/4 inches.
• Before all the other steps, double the colors cardstock you will use with some Clear Double Sided Adhesive Sheet. It will make it much easier to assemble everything. Also, on a small piece of White Soft Finish Cardstock, adhere some Clear Double Sided Adhesive on both sides of the cardstock. This will be to make the snow on the chimney.

• Using the snow die cut in the Christmas Door #1689 set, die cut 3 pieces in the white cardstock with double sided adhesive on both sides.
• Take off the release sheet on one side and dipped in some Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter, burnish with the fingers until really shinny.

• .Adhere the light grey piece on to the bottom of the tag.

• With a finger sponge dauber shade the edges of the tag (including the chimney part) with some Black Soot Distress Oxide.

• Adhere the dark grey piece on the chimney leaving the opening of the chimney unglued.

• Release the back of the snow pieces and adhere to the dark grey piece of cardstock like shown in the picture

Step 3: Santa

• Using Santa Claus #1567, die cut all the parts of the Santa, except the pants and shoes, in some colored cardstock double with the clear adhesive.

• Color Santa's face using a finger dauber sponge, ink the face with some Tattered Rose Distress Oxide. Very lightly, had some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide on the cheeks.
• Color the eyes with a fine pointed black marker and make a small dot with a fine pointed white marker in each eye.

• Assemble all the pieces of the Santa.

• Insert the Santa in the chimney.

• Glue some peel-off stars in the sky.
• Attached a slim red ribbon and tie it.
• Glue the back of the tag to the remaining tag with some Kids Choice Glue or some Double Sided Adhesive Tape.

Here's a final look on the finish tag.

And here, all package and ready to be delivered !

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Snow Angels...or Snow Fox Angel ?

Hello everyone ! Now that Halloween as gone, time to focus on my favorite time of the year to make cards...and oh well...my favorite time of the year for a lot of things !

My inspiration came an artist that I love, Sandy Allnock. She made a video on coloring snow angels and I knew right away that I needed to apply that to some of the gorgeous characters from Elizabeth Craft Designs collection of dies. 

If you want to take a look at the video from Sandy, hop on over her YouTube channel here.

Here is my tutorial to make those 2 cards.

Step 1: Card base

• Both cards are the same size. They are a 6 X 6 inches cards. The little girl cards as a blue-green 5 7/8 inches square and a red 5 3/4 inches square. The fox as a dark blue  5 7/8 inches and a red 5 3/4 inches square.
• Adhere all the layers on the card base for each card.

Step 2: Background

• Cut a 5 1/2 square in some White Soft Finish Cardstock for each card.
• Following Sandy Allnock instructions in her video, draw the tree in the corner of each card, using Copic Markers.

Step 3: Little Girl Angel

• For the little girl, die cut the coat, pants and hat from the Santa Claus die set #1567.
• Die cut the scarf from the Penguin die set #1566.
• Die cut the pony tail from the Princess set #1790.
• Die cut the face and the bangs from the Fairy 2 die set # 1793.

Everything is die cut from some White Soft Finish Cardstock doubled with some Clear Double Sided Adhesive.

• Using some markers, color all the part of the girl and assemble.
• Add some googly eyes and some small pearls to the coat to make buttons.

Step 4 Little Fox Angel

Also from some White Soft Finish Cardstock doubled with some Clear Double Sided Adhesive:

• Die cut the fox from the Fox die set #1682, except for the body.
• Using the Penguin die set #1566, die cut the body and the scarf.
• Using some markers, color all the part of the fox and assemble.
• Draw the mouth and the eyes of the fox, using a fine point black marker and make a white dot in the center of each eyes.

Step 5: Back to the background

• On the back of the little girl and the fox, adhere a non-permanent tape and set on there card where you want them to lie.
• Using Sandy's technique again, drawn the lines in the snow around the the characters to make them look as if they were making snow angels.
• Once you are happy with how it looks, remove the tape on the back of the characters and adhere a mini action spring (Action Wobbles) on the back and than on to the card.

And we are done !!!

And a closer look:

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Happy birthday my little knight !

Hello everyone ! One of my 8 grand-childs is having his birthday this month and of course, I will have to mail his birthday card this year...no party...no hugs...Lets try to make a special one anyway for a wonderful little prince !

I hope you will enjoy the following tutorial.

Step 1: Card Base

• Cut a piece of White Soft Finish Cardstock 11 X 5 1/2 ", score and fold in the middle to get a finish card measuring 5 1/2 X 5 1/2 ".
• Cut a 5 1/2 X  4 1/4" piece of light blue cardstock with white dots to make the sky.
• Shade a stripe 1 1/4" wide with a finger sponge dauber and some Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide to represent the grass.
• Adhere the sky cardstock on to the base card with some Clear Adhesive Double Sided Tape.

• Using the Mushroom House Folding Card #1796 die set, die cut the grass in some White Soft Finish Card Stock.
• Using a finger sponge dauber, shade the grass with some Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide and shade the edges with some Lucky Clover Distress Oxide.
• Wait for the castle to be ready, to adhere the grass pieces on the right spot of the base card. 

• Using the Once Upon A Time Accessories #1795, die cut the 3 clouds in some White Soft Finish Cardstock.
• With a finger sponge dauber, shade the edges of the clouds with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide.
• Wait for the castle to be ready before adhering the clouds to the sky on the card.

Step 2: The Castel

• Using the Castle Folding Card #1797 die set, die cut the castle on some White Soft Finish Cardstock. For the small parts, die cut them on the same cardstock but lined with some Clear Double Sided Adhesive. 
• Shade all the parts of the castle with some Distress Oxide colors of your choice and finger sponge dauber. Here the following colors were used: Tea Dye, Old Paper, Mustard Seed, Forest Moss, Gathered Twigs, Barn Door and Black Soot.

• Assemble the castle as showed on the picture below, adhering the clouds and grass before adhering the castle.

 

Step 3: The Knight

• Using the Knight's Armour #1794, die cut all the armour parts on some White Soft Finish Cardstock lined with some Clear Double Sided Adhesive. 

• Using the Prince #1791 die set, die cut the face of the prince.

• As usual, using finger sponge daubers and some Distress Oxide, shade the knight's parts and the Prince's face using the colors of your choice. Here were used Tattered Rose, Blue Print Sketch, Rusty Hinge, Pumice Stone and Black Soot.
• Assemble the Knights, adhering each piece in place.

Here's some final close-up pictures !

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

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