Contrasting cards......Summer, Summer, Summertime..... and Merry Christmas

Happy Friday! 

Today is the first day in a long while that here in Scotland we've had a nice sunny day. It's been non stop rain. Hence the bright Summer card. I made the Christmas card a few days ago but thought I'd do a contrast post for my blog.

So for my first card I have used all Clearly Besotted July kit except the circle frame.

Stamp sets:

Clearly Besotted: The Scene It Around II

                             All Four Seasons Hippos

                             Scene It Around Additions

Stencil:

Clearly Besotted: Small Scenes

Inks:

Memento: Tuxedo Black

Distress Oxides: Shabby Shutters 

                          

First I stamped out the little scene, "The scene it around II" winter stamp set and used a circle die to cut around it. 

I then masked off everything but the sky which I stencilled with oxide inks. I then coloured the rest with Spectrum Noir Illustrator pens and added a little glitter to the trees and the tops of the snow mounds. I then stamped and cut out the little hippos from the " All Four Seasons Hippos" set and also the cloud and lamppost from the "Scene it around additions" set. Again they were coloured with the Illustrator pens. 

I cut a piece of white card and used the "Small Scenes" stencil from the July kit with shabby shutters distress oxide ink to make the tree banner across the middle of the card. I adhered it to my light green layer of card which was adhered to my card blank.

I then framed the stamped piece with the die cut and adhered it to the card with 3D foam pads.

I then stamped the merry christmas onto a piece of white card and adhered it to the bottom right of the card. 

Just some clear drops from Time for tea designs to finish off. 

For my Summer card I have used Clearly Besotted, Time For Tea and Spectrum Noir products.

Stamp sets:

Clearly Besotted: Summer Corners

Stencil: 

T4T Designs: Tropic like its hot

Inks:

Distress Oxides: Shaded Lilac

Pens:

Spectrum Noir: Aqua pens

I made the background by using Spectrum Noir Aqua pens by just laying some of the ink down onto a glass mat and adding some water then smooshing them onto a piece of white watercolour card.
When it was dry I stencilled over it using T4T's "Tropic it like it's hot" stencil and Shaded Lilac distress oxide ink.
Next I stamped and cut out the Clearly Besotted's Summer Corners image and coloured it brightly with Spectrum Noir Illustrator pens. I also added some little highlights with a white pen.
I cut a piece of bright pink card and adhered it to a white blank card and then added the background piece.
The summer corner images were adhered with 3D foam pads.
I stamped out the sentiment from the kit onto white card and layered it up with the same pink card. Again I used 3D foam pads to adhere it.

There you go 2 contrasting cards. Hope the weather is nice where you are.

Happy crafting

Sharon x