I was asked a little while ago to make some wine themed Christmas cards to sell at a local wine making shop called Kootenay Wine Works. I made some tags earlier as well that were similar to some I made this fall. I am loving this fun Christmas wine sentiment from Two Lips Stamps and used it for my cards and tags. For the card, I painted a wash of iced spruce distress oxide ink over a snowy stencil from The Greetery. I stamped the wine bottle and sentiment in archival black ink and then used my Tombow markers to create a watercolour look.




Here are the tags that I made:

I have been posting on instagram regularly but have not updated my blog with a few of my latest cards! I liked the layout I used for some Christmas cards I made earlier so I paired it with some older papers in my stash. I coloured the sentiments in green this time and added some sparkly snowflakes :).


Christmas Card Count: 34 + 12 = 46

Here's a little sneak peek at some Close To My Heart goodies coming your way this holiday season! The sketch this past week over at Freshly Made Sketches was perfect to make up some simple holiday cards to add to my Christmas stash. I started out wanting to use the oval shape but then it just made more sense to use these stitched rectangle frames. I'm hoping I will find some time to make up some more with this awesome layout and use up some of my Christmas paper stash :).

I have been itching to ink up this stamp set since I got it and thought it would be perfect on a wine bottle tag! I was playing around with the spotlight effect in portrait mode on my phone and love how this turned out with the wine bottles!

I was able to get into my craftroom on the first day of the year, but it took me a couple days to finish off this card. I was excited to play with some new items I got for Christmas and thought it best to make my husband's birthday card since it always sneaks up on me. I set to work with Sketchy Saturday design but I was feeling more of a horizontal card for this one. These Lawn Fawn papers paired with the stitched snowflakes just scream "wonderful winter" to me, so I am also linking up with the Lawn Fawnatics challenge. I decided to make a few variations of this card using the different plaids from the pack.