Black and White Horses with Red Hats, and a Red Cardinal on Blue

Two Christmas cards to get into some challenges at the last minute!

ABC Christmas Challenge "H is for Hats", Colorful Options "Black and White with a Pop of Color", and Sweet Stampin' "Christmas in April":

Stamped in black, the hats coloured with a red marker, fun flock added to the brims and pompom, a bit of glitter on the top of the fence, trimmed with a stitched rectangle die, and a red border. 

For Cut It Up "Something with Wings":

I stamped and watercoloured the cardinal, then cut it out with the matching die.  Stamped the sentiment and cut it with a stitched banner die.  Added both to a snowy dps.

      

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Impression Obsession horses, PB sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white and red cs
Size - A2
Accessories - red marker, fun flock, glitter, Lil Inkers stitched rectangle die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Local King Rubber
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs, snowy dp
Size - A2
Accessories - Local King matching die, stitched banner die

Robin and Tea

A couple of quick CAS cards today.

For Shopping Our Stash "Up, Up, and Away" (something you'd see in the sky) and Can You Handle the Pressure (anything goes as long as there's an embossing folder).

The robin is stamped, watercoloured, and fussy cut. Then set inside the little joy frame die, and added to an embossed holly background. For the Double D challenge "Tea or Coffee".   Tea is my beverage of choice. My best friend and I get together for tea a lot. So I'll send this to her as a little hello. Very CAS - stamped, heat embossed in copper, bordered with copper shimmer cs, and popped up on fun foam.

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Stampworks Sheena Douglas robin
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, gold cs, white cs
Size - 5" square
Accessories - Memory Box joy die, watercolour paints, Sizzix holly embossing folder

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Hampton Art
Ink - ColorBox copper
Paper - copper shimmer and white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - copper embossing powder, Spellbinders rectangle dies, fun foam

Pastel Houses

The new Peace on Earth mood board has an image on the bottom left corner that inspired this card:

I did some smooshing on watercolour paper with various pale colours of Distress Oxide inks and then die cut the houses and trees.  I put tiny scraps of gold and silver metallic cs behind the window openings of the houses.  Then arranged them on a dry embossed background.

Please check out the other cards by the rest of the Design Team at Peace on Earth.  We'd love to have you join us!

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Distress Oxide Evergreen Bough, Lucky Clover, Spun Sugar, Tattered Rose, Speckled Egg
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs, scraps of gold and silver cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Charlie and Paulchen house dies, Memory Box frosted spruce die, Cuttlebug embossing folder

Split Florals

The Group of Cardmakers is trying split images this month.  This is where you use a large stamp and get two cards out of one stamping of it.   

I have the Tim Holtz Glorious Bouquet stamp that measures 8"x6" - impossible to use the whole image on an A2 card so it seemed perfect for this technique, and it resulted in two birthday cards ready to go for upcoming birthdays!  

I stamped the image once on watercolour paper and painted it with my Gansai Tambi watercolour paints.  Then chose a logical place to cut the image in two, one to give me an A2 card, the other to give me a mini slimline card.

I added interest to the first one by also splitting the image by die cutting a thin frame out of it, and then die cutting the same thin frame out of my off white cs that I used for the card base.  Then inserting the off white think frame into the gap.

For the second card, I took a black marker and went lightly around the edges of the focal panel to give a tiny bit of definition to the panel.

Check out what the other members of our group have done with this technique over at Group of Cardmakers!

Supplies:
Stamps - Tim Holtz Glorious Bouquet, SU sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - first card is A2, second card is 6.25x3.25"
Accessories - watercolour paints, SSS thin frame die, black marker

An Image Only Inspired by Nature, a Nordic Christmas, and a Little Taste of Spring

A chilly day that kept me inside instead of working in my garden.  So I made this card for Stamping Sensations "Inspired by Nature" and ABC Christmas Challenge "I is for Image Only - No Sentiment".

Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils, hand trimmed around the oval, and mounted on fun foam on a red card base.

A second card for today - for The Twelve Months of Christmas "Nordic Noel".  I'm also linking it up with the Rudolph Days challenge.

I cut the Tim Holtz Nordic Winter die four times (once out of each of white, red, green, and brown cs). I put the white outline (or negative) piece onto a sheet of double-sided tape. I stuck some of the red, green, and brown pieces into their openings. That left all the tiny circles and stars openings - I certainly didn't have the patience to stick little pieces into them but I had to cover up the stickiness of the tape so I sprinkled clear glitter over the panel and pressed it into all those tiny openings. I peeled off the back protective layer from the tape and added it to the card base, and then added a sentiment die cut with a narrow banner die.

One more today to slip into We Love Stamping "Spring is in the Air" before it closes.

Stamped and coloured with coloured pencils, then framed with a second layer of white cs with a rectangle die cut in the centre.  The frame is popped up with foam tape.

 

                          

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Northwoods
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white and red cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white, red, green, and brown cs
Size - A2
Accessories - sentiment banner die, Tim Holtz Nordic winter die, clear glitter, Sook Wang sheet of double-sided tape

Supplies for card 3:
Stamps - SU flowers, Rosie's Roadshow sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs
Size - 6x3.25"
Accessories - coloured pencils, Spellbinders rectangle die, foam tape
 

 

A CAS Basket and a Mixed Media Background

Two very different cards today.  One a CAS card, and one definitely not CAS - lots of mixed media playing around.

For Simply Clean and Simple where the theme is "Baskets":

Stamped and coloured with coloured pencils and then centred in a snowflake frame embossing folder.

And for Try It on Tuesday "Make Your Own Background":

I had a piece of cardstock that I'd used to mop up leftover blue and grey ink after I'd done some smooshing.  I stamped a grid stamp and the Birthday Wishes sentiment on it trimmed it down to fit an odd-sized card base I had.  Then I took another bit of the same leftover ink on, stamped with various stamps (including one that mentions the dragonfly), did a bit of random stencilling with paste, and then layered the two background pieces, and topped with a stamped and fussy cut dragonfly.

  

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black basket, SSS sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Ultimate Crafts snowflake frame embossing folder

Supplies for card 2:
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