Christmas stamping for our November challenge over at Country View

It is time for my to share my 2nd design team make for our current challenge over at Country View Crafts. 

November has finally turned chilly and it does feel more like the count down to Christmas. I spotted this lovely decoration in a shop recently, it will soon be time to decorate our trees. 

The theme this month is to hand stamp the focal of your card, so no digis, dies etc please but you can use these in the background, as long as we can see stamping as the main focus of your card. All the details can be found here.

My first project was a transition tag from Halloween to All Saints day which if you missed it you can see it here. 

This make is a Christmas card using stamps by Visible Image. Remember that Susan of Country View Crafts offers FREE UK postage on everything with no minimum order. I used the Christmas Eve set (sadly completely sold out for this year) with the super cute Snowman Jack

 and a sentiment from Sentimental Christmas  

This is what I got up to;

I added Paperartsy sleight blue infusions to watercolour paper and spritzed with water.

I then masked a moon and added pumice stone and chipped sapphire oxides.

 I stamped Snowman Jack and paper pieced his hat and scarf. I coloured his features with watercolour pens. 

 I stamped Santa and the sentiment into the sky adding some gold stars from the same set.

 I created some snow drifts ready for Snowman Jack by adding some more pumice stone ink.

Here is my finished card.

with a couple of close ups

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Sweet stampin 3/3 Make your own background

Addicted to stamps 3/3 anything goes

Mix it up 4/5 anything goes
Addicted to stamps and more anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge anything goes
Penny Black and more 1/3 Christmas
Try it on Tuesday 1/3 Cold, cold, cold

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that UK postage and packing is absolutely FREE! All the details for the November challenge can be found here.

I hope your card making (or buying) is on track. I still love to send and receive cards every year. E cards just don't quite tick the box do they!

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x