Happy Monday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s  Freshly Made Sketches challenge using some products kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their new release – Wishing You Joy – Christmas Round 2 plus some older products.

When I saw the beautiful Rural Winter stamp (40-944), I zeroed in on the cluster of trees to the right of the image and knew that there would be so many possibilities with just a section of the stamp, as well as creating a card with the full landscape. I stamped the trees using various distress inks and pens and added some glitter to the background. I then added the cute deer from the Together die set (51-069) which I cut from gold glitter card and reversed the image. I always find that glitter card is the most forgiving card when reversing die cuts. I layered the deer on a few die cuts as its legs are very delicate before adhering it to my stamped panel. I added my most-used star from the Christmas Wonderland die set (51-562).

To create the shaker frame I cut the middle-sized image from the wonderful new Whirl die set (51-827) several times and adhered them together – you could also use foam tape instead of all the layers of card if you prefer. I added some sequin stars to create my shaker card.

For the card base, I used the new Comfy embossing folder (65-023)

This shaker card was really difficult to photograph in my photo/lighting box so I had to get a bit creative but I think I got there in the end!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.