Christmas in July - Polkadoodles Digi Choosday

Christmas in July

Today's theme for the Design Team was

'Preparing for Christmas'

There's also an amazing

DISCOUNT CODE for the

Polkadoodles store TODAY!

Check out the blog for all the details.

Christmas in July? I could be doing with some snow right now - the heat in the UK is unbearable! For my Christmas project, I used a variety of Christmas stamp sets for this winter scene.

I started off by stencilling the top of my card using Christmas Tree Layering Stencil and a lightly inking the sky using Great Outdoors Stencil.

The little houses and trees are from Holly Blessings stamp set and Christmas Scene stamp set (no longer available) I decided to colour the houses brightly - non traditional colours. The little cute snowman is from Snowball Kisses stamp set.

I die-cut cloud borders (from my stash) and used them as mounds of snow, after inking the edges in grey and adding white fine glitter. The Peace & Love text images are from Heartfelt Joy stamp set.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

The Holly and Ivy Christmas #99 - AG

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #36

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #162

Happy Little Stampers - Christmas

Dream Valley #252 - Christmas in July

Dragonfly Dreams - Christmas in July

Comments

Arteconpapelmaderaehilos27 July, 2021
Hi... Your card is very nice, I love this stamps
Have a lovely day
Maritza
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Stacey27 July, 2021
What fun and festive card. Love the colors. Thanks for sharing at Dragonfly Dreams.
DT Stacey www.butterflycreations.blog
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Rose Andrew28 July, 2021
So festive and Beautiful .. love this stamp set .
Have a lovely crafty day.
Hugs
Rose DT
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Megan J29 July, 2021
Hi Maz, if I could I would send you some snow, it was floating through the air yesterday. Love the little town you created for your snowman. Thank you for sharing with us at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends... good luck in the prize draw... Megan DT LPoCF
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Shell Shearer Swinscoe29 July, 2021
This is just gorgeous, I love the colours you have used

Thank you for sharing with us at 'Happy Little Stampers Christmas' this month
Hugs Shell xx
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LOU01 August, 2021
Gorgeous card Maz. Totally love the non-traditional Christmas colours.
Thanks so much for joining us for our Merry Little Christmas Challenge for July 2021.
We hope to see you again soon,
Lou DT xo
JemLou Productions
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Ina G02 August, 2021
So pretty and so colourful. So very Christmasy Maz. Thanks for sharing with us at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge.
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Toni04 August, 2021
I LOVE this! Unexpected colors and such a cute scene
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