Crafty Adventurista: December 2025

Hello!

We're in December! The countdown is on to Christmas!!! EEK!

I hope you're all managing to get on top of your Christmas cards and gifts if you give any. It's always a good idea to check our Challenge page to see if there's anything that inspires a make for you. If so, please add it to the Challenge for this month as the theme is Christmas!

The challenge is open worldwide and you can join the group here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/164920247712393

You must use products from brands that Country View Crafts stocks and please list them in your entry. You can enter 5 times each month with different projects. We’ve got a fabulous prize that one randomly selected winner will win this month.

So to get you in the mood, I've created a Christmas Card using a previous Kate Crane Paperartsy Stamp Set, and it's a real goodie. I paired it up with a new one release mini from Kate too.

Using Paperartsy paints I created a layered background with a brayer. For this I used not so typical Christmas colours, choosing pinks, purple, pale blue and green.

I lightly stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne, the stars from the stamp set and then stencilled with Kate's stencil PS427, carefully picking out the snow looking area, using Distress Texture Paste Sparkle and left to dry.

I stamped out the main focal images - 'Rudolph' and the frame with Archival Jet Black Ink and watercoloured these with Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Pencils, then I fussy cut out.

I chose my sentiment from the stamp set, stamped this also in Archival Jet Black Ink and cut around it to add to my card.

Finally I mounted all the top components to the background and then onto a black border and then onto a square kraft cardstock card base.

I gave 'Rudolph' a nice shiney nose using Glossy Accents.

And here it is, my Christmas Card for this year.