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Monday, July 31, 2023

North Pole Mini Reindeer by Noelene

 Hello Crafty Friends, Noelene back today with some D.T. inspiration for the Paper Nest Dolls.  As this month comes to an end I am sharing one last Christmas in July card.


I decided to go with my favourite PND reindeer called "North Pole Mini Reindeer"




I coloured my image then cut out to create a clean & simple card on a 5x7 frame base. I die cut the Merry sentiment 3 times & clued the layers for some dimension then adhered it onto my card. Lastly I added the Christmas sentiment using foam tape. 




Copics:
Reindeer: E18, E51, E53, E55, E57, E70, E71, E74, E77, R30
Scarfe: BG90, BG93, BG96
Nose: R27, R29




"North Pole Mini Reindeer" is available in digital stamp here




He is also part of the North Pole set which consists of 7 images that you can purchase in rubber here or in digital here




Supplies:
Stamp: MFT - Birdie Brown Greetings Galore
Colouring Medium: Copics
Accessories: MFT Stacked Merry Die-Namics.


Thanks for stopping by!


Hugs


Noelene x

 

Friday, July 28, 2023

My Sliding Santa Card


 
Hello Crafty Friends! It’s Laurie here! I am sharing My Sliding Santa Card for Christmas in July and as my Design Team Inspiration Card for Paper Nest Dolls using the Vacation Santa Set. There are 7 stamps, which include Surfer Santa, Ice-cream Santa, Santa with Reindeer Floatie, Santa & Mrs. Claus, Palm Tree and Flamingo & Gifts, that come in both rubber and digital stamps. I made a card with Ice-cream Santa from this set as well and will include a link to it at the end of this post.

The Details of My Card


For my card, I decided to create fun interactive slider card using Santa with Reindeer Floatie. I had so much fun colouring this cutie with my Copic markers! I added some white Gelly Roll Pen to his floatie and Rudolph’s nose to give them a shine.

Next, I wanted to see the different layers of the papers behind him. So, I used two different slimline die sets. I picked a water-like paper for the slider piece as if he is going down a river twirling around like at one of those amusement parks. Lol! I kept the cut-out piece from the slider die and glued it through the hole onto the layer below it so that you couldn’t see the orange layer below. This added to my pool like feel.



I used some slider discs to create my slider, but in the past, I have also used pennies. I made sure that my dimensionals were round so that I could get him spinning around.

I decorated my card using some Christmas Chit Chat pieces. I popped up the sentiment ones making sure that my Santa would not get caught on them. A couple of matching glitter dots were added to add some sparkle.

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Copic Markers


Skin: E15/E13/E11/E00/E000
Beard: C3/C1/C0
Reds: R29/R27/R24/R22
Greens: YG67/YG63/YG03
Reindeer: E35/E33/E31/E30/E31/E53/E51/E50/R29/R27/R24
Coconut Drink: R85/R83/R81/C3/C1/0/E33/E31/E30/E53/E51/E50


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Card Recipe for My Sliding Santa Card


Vacation Santa Set, Paper Nest Dolls
Paper Basics – Stamper’s Select White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink
Beach Party 12” x 12” Paper Pad, Carta Bella
Christmas Magic Chit Chat, Doodlebug Design Inc.
Small Slimline with Lift Flaps Dies, Lawn Fawn
Large Slimline with Slider Dies, Lawn Fawn
On the Right Track Discs, Taylored Expressions
Glitter Enamel Dots, Stampin’ Up!
White Gelly Roll Pen, Sakura
Pop-Dot Adhesives, Forever in Time
Granny Apple Green Card Stock, Stampin’ Up!

Finished card size: 5 ½” x 3 ½”

Stamp Size: 3”

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Hope you like my Design Team Inspiration Card using
Vacation Santa Set by Paper Nest Dolls!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Laurie

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Santa on Vacation Card 


Hello Crafty Friends! It's Laurie here! I am sharing my Santa on Vacation Card for Christmas in July and as my Design Team Inspiration Card for Paper Nest Dolls using Vacation Santa Set. There are 7 stamps, which include Surfer Santa, Ice-cream Santa, Santa with Reindeer Floatie, Santa & Mrs. Claus, Palm tree and Flamingo & Gifts, that come in both rubber and digital stamps.

The Details of My Card

For my card, I decided to create a summer beach scene with Santa enjoying his ice cream! I coloured Santa and the palm tree with my Copic Markers. I love that he has a candy cane in his ice cream! Lol! I added Glossy Accents to his glasses and the light bulbs on the palm tree. For the palm tree, I used Clear Star Gelly Roll Pen to make the star sparkle and Silver Gelly Roll Pen on the wires for the lights.

Next, onto the scene building! The sky was created with watercolor paper and blending two blue Distress Oxide Inks onto it with my blending brush. Then, I used my splatter brush to splatter water to create some texture. Once that was done, I die cut some sand dunes and embossed them to give them the texture of sand. Finally, the sun and cloud were added to finish off my scene.

For the sentiment, I wanted just “Merry and Bright” even though the sentiment was “May Your Days be Merry and Bright”. So, I used Scotch Tape (you could also use a post-it note) to mask off the text that I didn’t want. Remember to remove the tape before you stamp though! Once the sentiment was stamped, I heat embossed it in white and die cut it out.

My beachy scene was added to a piece of Make A Splash paper that had palm trees in a bright greens and blue sky to mirror my scene.

The only embellishments added were some red rhinestones scattered around my focal point.

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Copic Markers

Santa
Skin: E15/E13/E11/E00/E000
Beard: C3/C1/C0
Reds: R29/R27/R24/R22
Greens: YG67/YG63/YG03
Ice Cream Cone: E35/E33/E31
Ice Cream: R85/R83/R81/E35/E33/E31/E53/E51/E50


Palm Tree
Trunk/Coconuts
: E35/E33/E31/E30
Leaves: YG67/YG63/YG03
Wire: C3/C1/C0
Red Light Bulbs: R29/R27/R24
Green Lights Bulbs: YG67/YG63/YG03
Blue Lights Bulbs: B28/B24/B32
Yellow Lights Bulbs/Star: Y38/Y35/Y32


Card Recipe for My Santa on Vacation Card

Vacation Santa Set, Paper Nest Dolls
Paper Basics - Stamper's Select White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink
Make a Splash 6” x 6” Paper Pad, Bo Bunny
Watercolor Paper, Stampin’ Up!
Stitched Circle Layering Dies, Memory Box
Slimline Stitched Hillside Border Dies, Lawn Fawn
Spring Showers Dies, Lawn Fawn
Stylish Shapes Dies, Stampin’ Up!
Subtle Textured Embossing Folder, Stampin’ Up!
Simple Strips – Christmas, Taylored Expressions
Versamark Ink Pad, Stampin’ Up!
White Embossing Powder, Stampin Up!
Heat Tool, Stampin’ Up!
Salty Ocean Distress Oxide Ink, Ranger
Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink, Ranger
Blending Brush, Stampin’ Up!
Tim Holtz Splatter Brush, Ranger
Glossy Accents, Ranger
Clear Star Gelly Roll Pen, Sakura
Silver Gelly Roll Pen, Sakura
Red Rhinestone Jewels, Stampin’ Up!
Scotch Tape

Real Red, Crumb Cake, Crushed Curry and Basic White Card Stock, Stampin’ Up!

Finished card size: 5 ½” x 4 ¼”

Stamp Size: 3”

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Hope you like my Design Team Inspiration Card using
Vacation Santa Set by Paper Nest Dolls!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Laurie

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Letters to Santa by Noelene

Hello Crafty Friends, Noelene back today with some D.T. inspiration for the Paper Nest Dolls

This month I have been sharing some Christmas in July inpiration on my blog & today I have kept the Christmas theme going by created a Christmas card using the beautiful PND image called Letters to North Pole.



It was a fairly simple card to make. Again I created layers starting with a 5x7 base. For my colouring I shaded my background after masking my image. I then used some Frantage to create some dimensional snowflakes to my card. 




Copics:
Clothes Penguin & Shoes: C0, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C7, YR14, YR16
Hair & Letterbox Post: E40, E43, E44, E47, E49
Skin: E0000, E000, E00, E11, E13, R20
Letterbox & Hat: R21, R22, R24, R27
Snow: B000, B00




Letters to North Pole is available in rubber here & digital stamp here




Supplies:
Sentiment: Computer Generated
Ink: Distress Ink "Broken China"
Colouring Medium: Copics
Paper: Doodlebug Design - Let it Snow
Accessories: Spellbinders 5x7 Matting Basics A & B,  Fran-tage Chunky White.


Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Noelene x

 

Sunday, July 9, 2023

I Think You're Super

Hi Crafty Friends,
Super Dog is here to make your day! This cute dog is from Paper Nest Dolls Super Boy Owen Stamp Set, he is Owen's heroic partner. 

Make Crafty Friends Q & A:
Q: What is your favorite super hero?
A: Me? She-Ra


Supplies:
Paper Nest Dolls Super Boy Owen
Poppy Stamps Rays Die
Heffy Doodle My Hero Die

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