Christmas Eve ~ Sketch Saturday #29

Another gorgeous sketch by Jo for this week's Sketch Saturday. I am loving being able to participate with such a suber talented DT and I love seeing all the gorgeous cards you all create!
Well, Christmas is almost here and I'm heading into the home stretch of getting ready! I really am not a last minute kind of girl (sometimes I don't have a choice) and I like to spend the last few days before Christmas just enjoying the decorations, the excitment and anticipation of my little guys as they await Santa, and the beauty of Christmas Eve Mass. In this little scene I created, I imagine that it is Christmas Eve (see the time on the mantle clock?) and Willow is completely done with her holiday preparations and is taking a well earned rest with a warm cup of cocoa and can feel secure that all is ready! I wish this for myself and for all of you!

I couldn't find any embellies in my stash that worked well with the scene so I decide to use my new Cropodile and set these jumbo brads into the cardstock. I threaded some ribbon through and I quite like the look it gave!

You might notice that my photo is taken in front of a window. My new craft room is almost ready and I couldn't resist seeing how a photo would look taken from the window. The light is really soft and nice and I can't wait until the room is completely done. All that is left is the actual cabinets and we hope to get them in by next Tuesday. Then I can move in and vacate the dining room table and rescue my stamping supplies from the garage! I promise to post pictures! I am so lucky to have a husband that insisted that I needed to have my own room!

• Stamps: Whiff of Joy, The Stamping Place
• Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper: SU! Red Riding Hood, Making Memories FaLaLa Dp
• Coloring: Copic Markers
• Embellies: SU! Brads and Red Riding Hood Ribbon

Here's the sketch! Hope you can find time to join in with us and don't forget to visit the rest of the DT! Their cards are so beautiful!

Lizzie in Town

This is a card I made "just because". I love this sweet little WOJ Lizzie and I thought she would look very quaint paired up with this winter village scene that I got a while back from The Stampin Place. Everything is colored with my copic markers. Lizzie has been cut out and placed on top. I added a little flock to her hat and the cuffs on her boots to make them look fluffy and warm. I masked the village and lights and colored the sky using my copic air brusher. I didn't color it uniformly so that it would look more realistic. I added some stickles here and there on the snow and a little on Lizzie's coat. I loved they way it turned out so I have used the card to make a Christmas banner for my blog! Now back to the more mundane aspects of my life: laundry, dinner, general cleaning!