MY CHRISTMAS BELLA ♥

Good morning all you dolls out there ♥

Today it is my turn to guest at the wonderful Paper Nest Doll house and I have a very special card to show you. I am really so excited to hear what you think about it.

There is a little story behind this stamp..

 

Some days ago I told Christine, the wonderful owner of Paper Nest Dolls about my daughter Gabriella.

For those of you that don't know me that much,- Bella is my 5 year old and she is my sweetheart ♥

Gabriella is in kindergarden when I work and she loves it very much, and this is her last year before she start school next year. The last weeks we have been talking a lot about Lucia. In Norway we celebrate Santa Lucia on Dec. 13th and all the kids go in a parade in the street singing in the dark that morning with candles and long, white dresses. It is beautiful I can tell you... I cry every time..

Every year one of the oldest girls get to go in front of the parade with a crown with lights and all the girls are hoping to be the lucky one. My Bella too, and I know she will be so disappointed if she's not the one..

So Christine draw a Lucia Bella for me so I can make her something nice she can have to remeber that day, with or without a crown with lights.

 

I will publish on my blog what I made for her on the 13.th december but today I will show you a Christmas card I made with the amazing stamp. I guess it is unnecessary to say I love this stamp.

Hope you like it too. The wonderful image is called Christmas Bella and she will be released today and you will find her in the shop here.
As some of my Norwegian readers already knows, my favorite shop KREATIV SCRAPPING have startet to sell these high quality rubber stamps from PND and this one will probably come too as soon as it is made. You will find the rest of them here

 

Here is my card:

My Santa Lucia is coloured with Copics and I must say I just love to colour these images as they are both easy and fun in same time.

 

I have used flowers from WOC and Kort og Godt to match the lovely new Magnolia papers.
They are amazing those papers, I can tell you. Best Magnolia ever have made and I had to order a bunch...again ♥

The text is an older Christmas text from North Star Stamp, a Norwegian company.

 

I made a little Christmas scene inside my card using some Marianne Design dies.

I have used Collectables 1326 called Julehus and 1330 Julehus dekor

I made two houses and layered them with 3D cushions, and coloured inside the windows with Copic

I think this lookes really nice and I had totally forgotten about these wonderful dies...

Shame on me!

I love wooden embellishments and both the wonderful text and tiny trees was a gift from my kind and wonderful friend Tammy, bought in the UK.

I also got a new one called Wood Veneer from Studio Callico that I have saved for my next project ;)

Like so many times before I have used my Snowflake die from Joy!Craft

LOVE that die so much ♥

My Christmas Bella ♥

Perfect for her Lucia day and I hope you will come back her the 13th to see what I made for her.

 

Thank you Christine for making this wonderful stamp

and thank you for having me as a guest.

You will find the post HERE at the PND blog

 

I found a little video about Santa Lucia in Norway and some other traditions for Christmas if you wanna have a look.

 

Have a nice day everybody.

Take care

Hugs, Jill