Snowflakes and Trees

I'm getting back to my craft room after a 6 day job (working 8:30-6 each day was so tiring at my age that I was fit for nothing but falling asleep on the couch while watching TV in the evening).  First up some snowflakes for the Cut It Up "use more than one die" challenge.

I definitely used more than one die - several different snowflake dies, a square die, a solid circle die, and a thin circle frame die!

The background panel is mixed media cs randomly sprayed with a silver spray.  I trimmed it with a square die.  The snowflakes are die cut from white shimmer cs.  The solid circle and the thin circle frame are die cut out of a dark green cs flecked with silver.  I put it all together on a white shimmer card base.

Paper Players wants to see "Nature's Landscape".  I pulled out an old favourite stamp of trees with snow blowing off them - a scene I love to see in winter.  I'm also linking it up at Christmas Cards All Year Round "something starting with T".

I created a background with blue Brushos sprinkled on glossy cs and spritzed with water.  I let the colour run to create snow banks at the bottom.  Once dry, I trimmed it into a square.  I stamped the trees and heat embossed them with sparkly Stampendous Marcasite embossing powder.  Added a sentiment and a black shimmer border layer.

There are many challenges out there for autumn themed cards so I thought I'd make one for them: Allsorts "Anything Autumn", Sweet Stampin' "Autumn", We Love Stamping "Shades of Autumn", Try It On Tuesday "Autumn's Beauty".  

The tree and sentiment are stamped and embossed in bronze, with Antique Linen sponging around the tree. It's die cut with a label die and layered on bronze shimmer cs cut with the next larger label die.

I love the sentiment, but can't remember who said it or what brand it is. 

  

   

 

   

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white shimmer cs, mixed media cs, dark green with silver flecks cs
Size - 5.75" square
Accessories - various snowflake dies, Spellbinders square and circle dies, SSS thin circle frame die, silver spray

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Penny Black trees, Make an Impression sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs, glossy white cs, black shimmer cs
Size - 5.25" square
Accessories - Stampendous Marcasite embossing powder, square dies, sentiment label die

Supplies for card 3:
Stamps - SU tree, unknown sentiment
Ink - ColorBox bronze, Distress Antique Linen
Paper - white cs, bronze shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - bronze embossing powder, Spellbinders label dies, SU embossing folder

Gold Ornament

Sometimes an image on the Peace on Earth mood board just makes me want to completely recreate it as a card.  That's what happened this time.  See the bottom left image in the mood board at the end of my post.  Here's my card:

I cut the solid die of the ornament out of leftover acrylic packaging, then cut the filigree overlay out of gold shimmer cs.  Glued them together and added them to a pine branch background that I embossed onto dark green shimmer cs.  I used two sizes of hole punches to cut little round circles out of the leftover gold shimmer cs and randomly glued them to the background.

We'd love to see you at Peace on Earth.  There's lots more inspiration from the rest of the Design Team.  Here's the mood board to inspire you:

I'm also entering my card at the Tic Tac Toe challenge.  I chose the diagonal line with "die cuts / free / embossing, wet or dry".

Supplies:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - ColorBox gold
Paper - white cs, green shimmer and gold shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - sentiment banner die, scrap of acrylic packaging, Memory Box ornament die, green/gold ribbon, two sizes of hole punches, Sizzix pine branch embossing folder

Reindeer and Rabbit

Christmas Kickstart wants a reindeer, Christmas Cards All Year Round wants something that starts with R or S, and the Penny Black Saturday Challenge wants us to use a Penny Black die.

A very CAS card - a kraft card base, die cut reindeer (cut twice - once out of white shimmer cs and once out of scrap, glued together for more dimension), die cut sentiment out of white shimmer cs, and die cut tiny bits of greenery out of green shimmer cs to make a wreath around his neck, with tiny red gemstones for berries. I also used a red gemstone for the dot over the "i" in the sentiment as I lost the little die cut dot. Inkspirational wants "furry friends" and Sweet Stampin' wants a CAS card. I used one of the adorable Anita Jeram images.  Simply stamped and watercoloured, trimmed with a lacy scallop rectangle die.  I mounted it on a green card base that perfectly matches one of the presents in the image and lets the green show through the lacy scallops.

Supplies for card one:
Paper - kraft, white shimmer, green shimmer
Size - A2
Accessories - Penny Black reindeer die, Memory Box sentiment die, Sizzix greenery die, tiny red gemstones

Supplies for card two:
Stamps - Anita Jeram (Colorado Craft Co.)
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, green cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Reverse Confetti lacy scallop rectangle

Candy Canes with Pine Branches

Peace on Earth challenge has a very delicious-looking mood board.  I chose the bottom right image for my inspiration.

I stamped the image and sentiment on watercolour paper, and then watercoloured it with regular watercolour paints on most of it, but shimmer watercolour paints on the ornaments and ribbon.  I trimmed the panel with a rectangle die, bordered it with metallic gold cs, and added it to an off-white card base.

There's lots of other tasty-looking inspiration from the rest of the Peace on Earth Design Team.  Take a look at our mood board and see if it inspires you to join us.
 

It's also being entered in Sparkles Christmas Challenge "include something sweet".

 

 

Supplies:
Stamps - Stampendous candy canes, Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, dull gold metallic cs, off-white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, metallic watercolour paints, rectangle die

Background Blues and Window, Wreath, Wood

The second card is for AAA Colourful which has a colour board of shades of blue.  We can use any of the shades we like - I went with the paler ones and tried to get a similar swirly blend of colours as on the colour board.

The background is a blend of blue acrylic paints on mixed media cs.  I used rustic white cs for the die cut panel and the card base, and stamped the sentiment in dark blue.

My other card is for Tic Tac Toe.  I picked the diagonal line that reads woodgrain, free, and die cut.

I made a small wreath with various green dps and the Martha Stewart pine branch punch. I put some pearl embellishments on it. Then layered it on a die cut window and a piece of wood grain cs. I used a square green card base and added a small vertical sentiment.

  

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Twilight
Paper - mixed media cs, rustic white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - unknown die, blue acrylic paints 

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Rosie's Roadshow sentiment
Ink - Distress Frayed Burlap
Paper - wood grain cs, white cs, various green dps
Size - 5" square
Accessories - Martha Stewart pine branch punch, window die, pearl embellishments

Gold Angel

For the new Peace on Earth challenge, I was inspired by the top right image on our mood board to use an angel and keep the colour scheme gold and white.

I stamped and heat embossed the angel and sentiment in gold, trimmed it with a square die, layered it on some gold and white dp, and then added all that to a white card base.

Here's our mood board.  Check out how the rest of the Design Team was inspired by it over at Peace on Earth.

I'm also linking it up with Try It on Tuesday "Emboss It" challenge - the angel is heat embossed.

Supplies:
Stamps - Inkadinkado angel, Penny Black sentiment
Ink - ColorBox gold
Paper - white cs, gold and white dp
Size - 5.25" square
Accessories - gold embossing powder, Spellbinders square dies