Hello, hello! I am excited to bring back my Mystery box Monday series. I did this series back in 2020 and since it did not get a lot of views back then I had retired it. But I missed it. This project was just some weird creative fun and I am happy to be back to it.
So, what is Mystery Box Monday? I have a “grab-bag” style box of supplies that I purchased from Piece Craft Love as part of a clearance sale back in Dec ’22. Since the box is a grab-bag, that means all the supplies in the box are a mystery. The box comes at a steep price reduction because the supplies are unknown. Who doesn’t like a good mystery?
I’m going to reach into this box and pull out three items. Much like that cooking show with the mystery basket ingredients, I have to put those items to use on one crafty project. Will these ingredients work together? Or will it be a recipe for disaster? Let’s find out…
This time around the first two items were clearly Christmas and I thought I knew what I was going to be making, until…
I pulled out this Doodle-Pops sheep embellishment. Um… okay. Now what?
So the brain starts churning away. I could use the letters for a card title. What kind of card? Sheep means baby. Can I do baby with Christmas stamps? There are a lot of words on there, what if I just use the words as an alphabet? What about the holly leaves, what could I do with those in terms of baby? It could be a hill for the sheep to stand on…
…and the idea was born.
I knew the hill would be green and the letters red, so in order to move away from the obvious Christmas color scheme, I pulled in more colors to create a confetti feel. Marker stamping and spattering techniques pulled this card together. If you want all the details, check out the video.
As a bonus I did go ahead and create some Christmas cards too using the same design style. Now I have a bit of a head start on my holiday crafting!
So that is it this time around. I hope you join me for future Mystery Box Monday goodness. Until next time, I hope you have an artful day.
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