Merry and bright

I´m trying my best not to be too behind my Christmas cards, not an easy task! but here I have another one to share with you.

These two stamps Hanging ornaments and Holly leaf are from Glitterbabe (you can find them at Stef´s store here!), I colored them with oil pastel and blended them with mineral oil. After I finished coloring the ornaments I painted completely with my so loved glittered nail polish and added details with gold glitter glue. On the holly leaf I glittered the border and painted the fruits with glitter nail polish. I really like the effect of the nail polish, it doesn´t saturate the image with glitter. I placed the images with foam tape, I drawn the ornaments strings  and the sentiment with gold gel pen. The black cardstock is perfect when you want to highlight the images. The simple sketch is from Clean & Simple sketch #115, love it!

With this card, I´m playing at the following challenges:
Little red wagon: do it in 3´s
Cute card Thursday challenge #138: anything goes
Sunday´s with Crissy #11: red, gold, green
Woopsi Daisy Challenge: it´s Christmas
Cupcake Inspirations challenge #85

Bookmarks

I was in need to start using my scraps, so I made bookmarks to put them to good use

In these two I´m using My tiny friends from Softpencil, I colored them with colored pencils blended with mineral oil. I cut the images and place them on the bookmarks with foam tape.

On this one I used Bath from Whoopsi Daisy that I colored with colored pencils (no blending here), cut and placed it on the bookmark with foam tape.

And on the forth I used Emmy from Baby Bud Designs, colored with colored pencils blended with mineral oil. I cut the image and placed it with foam tape.
I finished them all with ribbons, buttons (from my stash) and dots of pearled paint here and there. They turned out great, they look better in real life though...

Just for {U}

I made this envelope trying to follow ColourQ #44, I loved the combination of colors and I think I used them very well (I made use of my scraps of paper!). The sad part is that I couldn´t make it on time to participate on the challenge... maybe next time...
Over a strip of black cardstok I glued three scraps of paper, paper pierced them and stitched some clear glass seed beads with black embroidery floss. After that I trimmed the long edges with decorative scissors and placed it on the front of the envelope. The sentiment is hand written on the light blue paper.

The image if from Daisy May (Woopsi Daisy), a fairy I bought a few months ago, these images are so cute! and so beautiful to color. I used colored pencils and blended them a little bit with mineral oil and to finish it I painted her wings with pearled acrylic medium (and I also slightly brushed some of it over her dress). I cut the image and placed it on the envelope with foam tape.
I´m joining Flutter by Wednesday´s challenge blog: #117 and Crafty Creations challenge blog: #80