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Snow Day with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Oct 16, 2021 | Uncategorized

Welcome back – Chris here with you today with my first Christmas card for this season. I love to mix and match several stamp sets together, so I did on this little project. For this card I used: Feed the Birds stamp set Snow Day stamp set High Rise Tree scene Die Tree Neighbors stamp set Lanterns – Merry Pigs I decided to color the cute critters with Distress inks (I love to use the Distress reinkers) so I’m going to start to stamp all images on water-color friendly paper. For the background I cut out the wonderful tree...

Have A ‘Good Fright’ with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Sep 28, 2021 | Uncategorized

Boo and hello everyone, Chris here with you to share a small slimline Halloween card. These two cuties are on the way to find some treats. Have you seen the new Halloween stamp sets from the latest release? They’re really too adorable. I used: Boo Crew stamp Knightly LC Large Alpha Die Pathway Background stamp Nesting Mini Slimline Die First I stamped all images on alcohol marker friendly paper, colored them with alcohol markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies. For the background I didn’t need the whole image, so I only cut out the part I...

Let’s celebrate you! with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Jul 11, 2021 | Uncategorized

Hello everyone, Chris here with you today. These cute bunnies are celebrating a party together. I think only one little cutie will be late to the party – lol. I used Word Buddies Woodland Stamp Cozy Burrow Scene Die Old Oak Background stamp Border: Gallery Frame #6 some Accessories from Cozy Christmas Eve and Bloom and Grow Stamp Door: Treehouse Scene Die First of all I stamped the images on alcohol friendly paper, colored them with alcohol markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I did some ink blending with Distress oxide inks: for the tree and...

Make me smile with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | Jun 21, 2021 | Uncategorized

Hello everyone, Chris here with you today. These cute little critters from the new release just stole my heart and there are many more cuties to work with. I used: Flying High Stamp Set Make Me Smile Words Die Puddle Play Stamp Singing in the Rain and the sentiment from Cheery Greetings Stamp I started by stamping all the images I wanted to use on this card on alcohol marker friendly cardstock. After the coloring was done, I cut everything out using the coordinating dies. Then I did the background. It is a quite simple background. I did some...

Word Buddies with Chris

Posted by Chris Comploj | May 15, 2021 | Uncategorized

Hi crafty friends – hope you are all doing well. My card today features some wonderful products from the new May Release. These cute guys are happy that they can celebrate a big party together and I think the little Jungle Buddies are perfect for this reason. I used: Word Buddies Jungle Jane Small Alpha Die the tree from Summer Woods Scene die treetop: Partly Cloudy die Gallery Frame #6 die I stamped a bunch of these adorable critters with Memento black ink and colored them with copic markers. For some highlights and details I always use color pencils...