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Forest Friends with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | May 26, 2022 | Uncategorized

Happy Thursday to all of you, Chris here with you today and I’m back with another “circle card” using these adorable critters from the brand new May release. I used Forest Friends Nesting Circle Die Jane Small Alpha Die the mushrooms are from the Garden Friends and Fairy Garden First of all I stamped all images on alcohol marker friendly paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them with my alcohol markers. Then I die cut out with my coordinating dies. After this I cut out a circle frame with two circle dies in different sizes and blended...

Pig Out with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Apr 24, 2022 | Uncategorized

Dear crafty friends. This is Chris with you today, with this little card. Maybe some of you know I love to mix and match stamp sets to create little, cute scenes. I think the pigs are a lot of fun! For this card I used Pig Out stamp set Bee Happy stamp set Fairy Garden stamp set and the letters from Jane Small Alpha die First of all I stamped and colored all images. They were colored with Copic markers, added some highlights with coloring pencils and a white pen and then die cut out with the matching dies....

Hello little one with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Feb 20, 2022 | Uncategorized

Hello crafty-friends, Chris with you here today, back with another „circle-card“. A baby was born in our neighborhood a few days ago, so I decided to create a baby card with these adorable foxes from the stamp set Word Buddies Woodland stamp. I used: Word Buddies Woodland stamp set Jane Small Alpha Die Nesting Circle Die First, I stamped all images on alcohol marker friendly paper and colored them with alcohol markers (e.g. Copics …). Then I cut them out with the coordinating dies. Since Hello Bluebird come out with the Nesting Circle Dies I love to create circle...

Today is all about YOU with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Jan 16, 2022 | Uncategorized

Hi everybody, this is Chris with you today with a colorful birthday card. But, first of all I would like to wish you all a happy and healthy 2022. New Year means I need new Birthday cards, so I decided to begin the year with a colorful Birthday card. For this card I used: Balloon Buddies Stamp Tree Neighbors Stamp Knightley LC Alpha Die And the clouds from Partly Cloudy Die I began by stamping my images with a watercolor friendly black ink, then I colored with Distress inks ( I prefer the reinkers). After all coloring I cut...

North Pole Littles with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Dec 11, 2021 | Uncategorized

Happy Saturday everyone – Chris here with you today – I still don’t have enough Christmas cards so I decided to send the cuties from the North Pole Littles on their way to help me, so that I’m not arriving late to the party! I used: North Pole Littles the trees from Slimline Skating Pond Scene die the street lantern and the ladder from Merry Mice stamp set Big Christmas Greeting stamp Star Bright Die First of all, I stamped all images and colored them with alcohol markers. For little details, like stripes, dots or shadow I used color...