Hello!!

Hello and welcome to 2019.

I wonder what it has in store for us over the next 12 months.  Some things I'm already aware of but there are others that I am sure will take me by surprise, hopefully pleasantly but a year wouldn't be a year without a curve ball or two thrown in for good measure.

I'm starting the year with a little Stacy Yacula from Purple Onion Designs.  It seems like a really good place to start. These adorable farm animals are from the Mistletoe Farm Collection.  It's so hard to choose a favourite collection but these farm animals in their little hats and scarves are pretty hard to resist.

I coloured several stamped images in pencil and fussy cut them with no idea how they would be put together.  In my order was this beautiful floral banner (which honestly I don't remember putting in my cart, but I'm glad I did).

I started by stamping the floral banner partially around the edge of some white card stock, then created a little scene with some of the animals I had pre-coloured and cut.  I just like the subtle backgrounds against the images for these stamps.  It seems to be my go too style for them. The calf and the hen are glued to the card stock with their heads popped up on foam tape, so they don't sit completely flat.  The goose and the sleeping kitty are adhered with foam tape as they are in the foreground.

Stacy always gives her animals the most beautiful facial expressions.

See you again soon.

Happy 2019.

Karen

xo