I love gingerbread men. I have two real live gingerbread men in my house - they both have ginger hair - but the wee one is cuter and he inspired me to paint a little watercolour picture of a gingerbread man.
I had originally intended to get it framed and add it to the Christmas decorations but I ran it through the scanner, shrank (is that even a word?) it and turned it into little gift tags that I could use on cards. I also used him in the header on this blog - Here are a few cards I've made with him. I printed the wee gingerbread man onto PTI vintage cream cardstock or plain white.
The tag pictured from the top is from a card not shown here - I make these at night and in the daylight the colours jarred!! Lol - it needs cosmetic surgery before I can show it here!!
It's good to get into the holiday mood again - I had sort of got away from it with halloween and all. Now that I've finally received my new PTI stamp sets I'm good to go. All supplies are PTI with the exception of the Kraft card and the weeny brad, the patterned paper on the last card is DCWV old stock I bought cheap in July, ribbon from LSS. Been trying to use up stuff I already had.
Tools used were - circle punches, plain and scalloped. X-cut snowflake punch. Marvy snowflake punch - the blue one. EK success corner rounder used to make scalloped border. Scorpal.
Stamp sets - Silent night, Snowfall and Snowfall additions, 2008 Holiday tags collection. All PTI. The graphics around the gingerbread man and the sentiment were done on the computer - the font was Chopin from Dafont.com
Wow! Have you ever been a buzy girl. Such awesome creations Claire...every last one of them is devine! Do you actually send them all out? Your Christmas card list must be a mile long. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm stupified, Claire-he is just the cutest! Will you show the final framed painting to us soon? Please!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet little guy!! Very nice Clair - all your cards are just so festive!! :)
ReplyDeleteI love gingerbread men, too! And yours is certainly a cute one. And I'm really liking that flourish - so perfect for this time of year.
ReplyDeleteVery cute Claire!
ReplyDeleteVery cute. I wondered about the little man in your banner. Great work as usual Claire.
ReplyDelete-Molly B
Claire you are such a talented girl! Love all the cards.
ReplyDeleteClaire, your cards are wonderful! I really like your ideas and talents. I use papertrey all the time and have just now tried their papers. Their products are great. Thanks for sharing your cards and tutorials.
ReplyDeleteThese are fabulous Claire! I love your gingerbread man, he is just perfect in everyway.
ReplyDeleteaward on my blog for u to say thanks for all the inspiration u give me :)
ReplyDeleteHi Claire! I just popped in to say hello and catch up with your latest creations and boy have you been busy!
ReplyDeleteAs usual you are putting out stuff which is in a class of its own! Of all of your recent stuff it's too hard to choose which is best, cos it all is!
You are just talented beyond belief! These are all just adorable! I finally got PTI papers & more inks, so I'm trying to decide exactly what my Christmas card might be?!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous drawing! This is amazing! Very whimsical and what you did with the tags you made is awesome! Great job! Best, Curt
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