Pink Christmas for the Cure

Every year at this time, Stephanie and Lauren of the Jingle Belles Christmas Card Challenge donate $2 each for every card that is entered in their "Pink Christmas for the Cure" challenge.  Here's my card:

I used a new technique I saw in a challenge on SCS - Finger Painting with a MISTI.  For details, see this video.

I put the stamp in my MISTI and used my index fingertip to add various Distress and Memento inks to the stamp, stamping in between applications of colour.  I lost some of the definition of the smaller petals so went around them with a coloured pencil to put back the definition.  I trimmed the panel with a stitched rectangle, added a sentiment, bordered with a dark green speckled cs, and added some gold liquid pearls to the centre of the poinsettia and some glossy accents to the berries.

I encourage you to make a pink Christmas card and link up with Jingle Belles before October 23rd.

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black poinsettia, unknown sentiment
Ink - Distress Picked Raspberry, Memento Rose Bud, Lady Bug, Northern Pine
Paper - watercolour paper, dark green speckled cs, off-white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Lil Inker stitched rectangle, gold Liquid Pearls, Glossy Accents, coloured pencil

The Word "Christmas" and Autumn Colours

A couple of cards for today - a dreary pouring-with-rain day here in Vancouver.  So a perfect day to spend in my craft room before I go out for Thanksgiving dinner at a friend's house.

For Sparkles Christmas Challenge ("use the word Christmas on your project") and Word Power (the sentiment is the focus of the card):

I die cut the SSS Holiday Frame out of dark gold cs and layered it over a background created by sprinkling Shabby Blue embossing enamel over a piece of cs and heating it from underneath so that it didn't blow off.  It's a nice mix of fine blue sparkly particles and larger white and gold particles.  I added a gold star and put the whole panel on fun foam on the card base to create some dimension.

Next up, using autumn colours of orange and brown for The Paper Players' colour challenge:

I smooshed a piece of watercolour paper in some Distress orange and brown inks. I got a really nasty section on one area so decided to tear the panel down one edge and get rid of the nasty section.

I die cut a poppy out of off white shimmer cs and out of some scrap cs, glued them together for more dimension, glued it on the smooshed panel, and wrapped with twine.

I debated adding a vertical sentiment but it would have been squished so left it blank - I can add a sentiment inside if I need to.

 

Supplies for card 1:
Paper - white cs, dark gold shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - SSS Holiday Frame, star die, Stampendous Shabby Blue embossing enamel

Supplies for card 2:
Ink - Distress oranges and browns
Paper - off white cs, off white shimmer cs, watercolour paper
Size - A2
Accessories - Memory Box poppy die, twine

Two Non-Christmas Cards

You all know how my main focus is Christmas cards but I've just made a bunch of them for SCS Falliday Fest challenges as I'm hosting one of the challenges coming up Oct 17 and also made samples for some of the other challenges.  So if you're a SCS member, be sure to head over and check out the challenges - four new ones posted each day from Oct 10 - 19.

So I decided to take a break and make two non-Christmas cards.  There are a bunch of great autumn-themed challenges out on blogland so I made this card for these ones: Try It On Tuesday "Autumn Magic", Stamping Sensations "Autumn Colours", My Time to Craft "Autumn Season Colors", The Four Seasons Challenge "Fall", and AAA Card Challenge "Autumn".  I'm also linking up to Addicted to CAS "Masculine".

Stamped and watercoloured, trimmed with a label die, and popped up on fun foam on a kraft card base.  I went over the berries with Glossy Accents.

The Paper Players' challenge is "Love is in the Air" so I'm entering this card:

The heart was done in a hot foiling machine and was not totally successful - it's missing quite a lot of the gold foil.  But I quite like it anyway as it has kind of a distressed look.  I popped it up on fun foam on a square I embossed with the SU Subtle folder.  Added it to a white card base and die cut the word "love" from red glitter paper.

 

   

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Magenta leaves and berries, unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - kraft cs, watercolour paper
Size - A2
Accessories - Sizzix die, foam tape, watercolour paints, Glossy Accents

Supplies for card 2:
Paper - white cs, red glitter cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Glimmer gold foil, SU Subtle embossing folder, Great Expressions Decorative Heart die, Tim Holtz sentiment die

Frosty Friends

Peace on Earth's new mood board (see at end of post) has the sweetest image of a young deer and a rabbit.  It immediately made me think of my Anita Jeram stamp.  And I had the perfect sentiment for it too.

Stamped and watercoloured, trimmed with a rectangle die, and bordered with some blue/grey cs.  The white spots on the deer were added with a Posca paint pen.

Here's the Peace on Earth mood board.  We'd love to see if it inspires you!

Supplies:
Stamps - Colorado Craft Co. Anita Jeram image, PB sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, blue/grey and off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, white Posca paint pen