Welcome to Day 11 of our 12 Days of Holiday Giving! While we don’t have eleven pipers piping (although it would be fun if we did!) we do have our fabulous Art Director Cathy Zielske here kicking off a fun day of inspiration and prizes! Let’s sing along to our favourite song…
“On the 11th day of SCT’s 12 Days of Holiday Giving, SCT shared with me….a beautiful card from Cathy Zielske along with an amazing prize package from Creative Memories, Elle’s Studio and Gina K. Designs!”
Hi everyone! It’s Cathy Zielske here, art director for Scrapbook & Cards Today, and I’ve got a sweet little snowman card to share with you.
This cute little snowman is from the Winter Hugs stamp set by Gina K. Designs, and I stamped him in Memento Tuxedo black in and just used a few Copic markers (BG45, B00, C1, RV10, YR65) to colour him in very simply! Once he was coloured in, I used the coordinating die to cut him out. Then came some fun stuff:
I added a little bit of the Prismatic Glitter from Gina K. Designs to the white trim on his hat. I just used a bit of the Connect liquid glue to fill in the trim and the pom area sprinkled on the glitter and shook the excess off. A quick tip? Before I added the liquid glue, I ran my Embossing Magic Pad over the die-cut image, just to remove static and any oils, so my glitter only stuck to where I placed the glue.
You can just make out the glitter on the snowman’s hat. It’s super shiny in real life!
To create that blended square in the background, I used one of the Taylored Expressions Masking Stencils and two Distress Oxide colors: Tumbled Glass and Broken China.
These stencils are designed to work with standard US A2 card panel sizes (4.25 inches x 5.5 inches) and have grooves on the stencil that you use to line up your card panel. Just tape into place, and you can ink blend the perfect shape, in this case, a square.
STAMPS: Gina K. Designs Winter Hugs, CZ for Simon Says Stamp Clean Line Christmas; DIES: Gina K. Designs Winter Hugs, CZ Design for Simon Says Stamp, Simon Says Stamp Stitched Flakes Dies; MASKING TEMPLATE: Taylored Expressions; COPIC MARKER COLORS: BG45, B00, C1, RV10, YR65; OTHER SUPPLIES: Prismatic Glitter; Connect Glue; Tim Holtz Distress Oxide: Tumbled Glass and Broken China
I flicked on some white paint while the mask was still in place to keep it all nicely contained within the square.
To finish off the card, I added a few die cut snowflakes and stamped “merry christmas” using my CZ Design Clean Line Christmas stamps, and die cut out the sentiment using the coordinating die. I used Thin Foam squares from Scrapbook Adhesives to pop up the snowman and the sentiment and popped the whole panel onto a white card base.
Wishing all our readers and friends all the best this holiday season!” ~ Cathy Zielske
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Day 11 GIVEAWAYS!
Are you ready to see what’s under the tree for our Day 11 prize package? First…
From Creative Memories:
Happy holidays, SCT readers! We’re so happy to be taking part in the 12 Days of Holiday Giving and are looking forward to seeing what prize-winning projects you come up with. We can’t thank you enough for your support this year (and every year) and hope you have a holiday season full of family, friends, and of course, a ton of time in your craft room!
Create themed layouts for a variety of occasions with the Theme Pack Bundle! This scrapbook kit bundle brings together 10 unique themes from sports and animals to New Year’s and graduation and allows you to put together themed layouts, spreads and even cards. Each theme pack includes four designer papers, two sheets of stickers and one complementing sheet of cardstock, so no matter what project you’re working on, it pairs perfectly with your photos. The Theme Pack Bundle includes the Gridiron, Grand Slam, Just Dance, Graduation Day, Cheers, Puppy Love, Cattitude, What A Zoo, Open Road and Playtime Theme Packs.
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From Gina K. Designs:
“Today’s winner will receive a huge stamp and die package from Gina K. Designs! Inside, you’ll find three large word dies and four coordinating stamp sets. This prize package is valued at over $50.00 and is filled with the perfect greetings for all kinds of card making! From everyone at Gina K. Designs, we wish you the happiest of holidays and a crafty new year! As a bonus we would love to offer our SCT friends the opportunity to save 15% on any purchase through December 31st! Use coupon code SCT15” ~ Gina K.
And our final prize today is from Elle’s Studio:
“Happy Holidays from all of us at Elle’s Studio! We’re excited to be stuffing one lucky blog commenter’s stocking with a $50 gift certificate to our shop! Spend it on our newest December 2019 kit and add-ons, shown here, or any of our other tags, stamps, die cuts, stickers or embellishments created to help you make memory-keeping simple and easy! Make some merry memories this season, and we will help you record them!” ~ Elle
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To enter each day’s giveaways:
For an opportunity to win today’s giveaways, leave a comment below by midnight on December 22nd EST. All winners will be announced on December 23rd at noon EST.
We would also love for you to take a moment to visit today’s sponsors on their Facebook pages to thank them for their generous prizes. Our SCT readers are always so wonderful at saying “thank you” and it’s because of that appreciation our partners love to share with you here throughout the year! Let’s show them how much we are loving these 12 Days of giveaways! If you don’t already “like” them, you may just want to!
Creative Memories on Facebook (find them on Instagram @creativememories)
Gina K. Designs on Facebook (find Gina K on Instagram @ginakdesigns)
Elle’s Studio on Facebook (find Elle’s Studio on Instagram @ellesstudio)
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow to wrap up this fun holiday tradition. Our friends from American Crafts are here and you won’t want to miss it! If you’re just joining us for the first time, be sure to start on Day 1 HERE! Also, please share our holiday event with your crafty friends too!
Wonderful giveaway!
So excited to see who won, thanks for the opportunity to win and Happy Holidays!
such an exciting giveaway. so many wonderful products.
Fun prizes!
Thanks for the 12 days of Christmas, and all the creative ideas.
All of these prizes would add a lot of fun creating to my time in my craftroom!
What an excellent giveaways, hope to win them to do lots of scrapbooking with them
I would love this prize and that card is adorable!
I love the card and the giveaway!
A wonderful give away!
It’s hard to find words about the generous prize packages that have been compiled! Thank you to all the sponsors! Whoever wins a prize package from the 12 days of Christmas will certainly have a very generous gift! All the best to everyone!
I love the adorable snowman card. Thanks for the chance to win!
Such a sweet card and easy to make…..great inspiration! Wonderful gift packages too ~ thanks for the opportunities!
What a wonderful Christmas present this would be!! Thanks for the chance to win.
So much cuteness! Love it! ????????????????????
Love the cute snowman card and the prize pa kage is fabulous. Creative Memories never disappoints and like many was my intro to scrapbooking. I first tried Gina K Designs at SCT’s Crop and Create and love their products too. Elle’s Studio is new to me, but I know I will love their products because SCTs partners are always the best.
Such generous giveaways from your sponsors! Thank you!
This snowman card is precious!
Wow! That snowman may be the cutest thing I’ve see all year :-) Definitely will be looking to get my hands on that “Name of Set Here” stamp. LOL!
Also, what a great lot of giveaways. Hope I am lucky today!
This card is adorable! Thanks for the chance to win!
Love word dies. Always looking for stamp sets like these!
What amazing prizes! Wonderful inspiration from Cathy Z! Thank you so much for the chance to win!
I collect anything with a Snowman. And this Snowman is so stinkn’ cute! What an awesome giveaway!
What a cute little wintery scene on the card. I really like it’s clean and simple design.
Today’s prizes are fantastic! If I won the Gina K. prize I would use it all the time!
I collect anything with a Snowman and this Snowman is so Stinkn’ CUTE! Awesome Giveaway!
I would love to use these stamps and die cuts for making cards and scrapbooking!
Merry Christmas!
What an awesome giveaway. Thank you for the opportunity to win!
Beautiful card and the giveaway is amazing as well. So much inspiration!
That card is so cute! I have a soft spot for a snowman! What an amazing giveaway! Thank you for the chance to win!
Awesome giveaway thanks for the chance to win. Merry Christmas to all. ????
What a cute card! Thanks for the opportunity to win such great prizes!
Super cute card and awesome prizes-I love Elle’s Studio!
Oh that snowman card is adorable!!!! Love the glitter! And the sponsors today! So many great layouts to be made with CM – and I absolutely love the Gina K dies and stamps – Elle’s studio is a new favourite of mine – the digi Pocket page elements are amazing!
I love CZ simple but beautiful cards, great job! These prizes are amazing from three amazing companies! Thank you for the chance to win!
Lovely prize, thank you for your generosity.
Love this card! Thanks for another day of fun giveaways!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Gina K Designs! I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win this prize! Thank you so much for the opportunity! ????
What a wonderful card and wonderful prizes!
Snowman, love it! I certainly could use some boys sport theme paper. Two grandsons are in hockey, soccer, baseball, football…oh, and ball hockey!! T’is the season for hockey eh?? Thank you for the opportunity.
Super giveaway! I think I just found my next Christmas card design. Thanks Cathy and SCT.
Love the glitter on his hat, tradition fun design. Made me smile
cute, simple, colorful, I wish I had seen this before Christmas — I need to save this tutorial
Thanks for the intro to some products new to me, wonderful prizes also,
What an adorable card! I love Gina K products. Whenever I go into her store I am like a kid in a candy store!
Love the snow person. So cute and adorable. Thank you so much for all the chances to win.
What a wonderful selection of prizes. I use products from all these vendors….high quality. I truly love the Gina K sentiments which are perfect for card making
So adorable… Thanks for sharing your artwork. Wonderful sponsors yet again!!!
Such fun products! I would love to spend some time making beautiful things with them!
Love the snowman card, so cute!
Awesome prizes, thanks so much for the chance to win!!
oh man what a great set of prizes – I would LOVE to win !!
Cathy’s card is adorable and the prizes are wonderful!
Wow, this prize package is so generous. Thank u do much for the chance to win. Taking SCTs Pocket Scrspping Class this year – Meghann Andrew’s love of stamping and Elle’s studio has worn off on me. I would love to win this.
Those are great prizes, I love getting ideas for all these posts! Thank you!
Love the snowman so much! Thanks for the chance to win!
Creative Memories, Gina K, and Elle’s Studio… 3 of my most favourite things!
Such a cute little card! Another Great giveaway today! Merry Christmas!
I love the Snowman card! What a great giveaway today…you can never have too much Creative Memories pspers and products. Thank you!
Love this cute snowman card–so cheery. thanks for the chance to win too.
super cute! and great prizes11 <3
Another great giveaway. Love the snowman card
Be still my heart…..it’s Gina K!!! Such an adorable card! Thanks so much for another chance to win some Christmas cheer!