Blue and White Christmas and Belated Flowers

A couple of cards just in time for some challenges!

52 Christmas Card Throwdown wants blue and white cards - my favourite colour combination!

I made a background by sprinkling blue Brushos on watercolour paper and spritzing with water.  When dry, I trimmed it with a pierced dot rectangle die.  I die cut the dove and sentiment from the same white cs as the card base.

The Paper Players want a clean and simple card featuring florals. 

Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils and blended with a bit of Gamsol, trimmed and mounted on a red card base.

  

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Sledding Bear

The new Peace on Earth mood board has images of skating and sledding.  I pulled out a Penny Black stamp of two bears sledding.

Stamped and coloured with coloured pencils and trimmed with a square die.  I stepped out of my comfort zone and set the background dp at an angle.  Not sure I like it, but I think it adds to the sense of downhill movement.  I added some Stickles to the snowflakes on the image.

Here's the mood board.  Head over to Peace on Earth to see how it inspired the rest of the Design Team.

 

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs, snowy dp
Size - 5.25" square
Accessories - coloured pencils, Stickles, Spellbinders square dies

Birthday Flowers, a Hollyhock Garden, and Green and Gold Christmas

I've got three cards for today.  I've really been in the mood to make cards lately!

First up a birthday card (a belated one as I know the post won't get it there in time!).  It's for Cut It Up's "Happy Birthday" challenge.

I inked up a Penny Black background stamp with Distress Oxide Shabby Shutters and Speckled Egg and patted off some of the ink with a rag.  I inked on hammered cs which added to the faded texture of the stamping.  I die cut the flowers and smooshed them into the same two inks.  I  used a separate "belated" sentiment stamp over the "birthday wishes" stamp.

Addicted to CAS's code word is Garden.  One of my favourite flowers is hollyhock and I always have a section of my garden devoted to them.

I stamped and heat embossed the hollyhocks in gold on watercolour paper, then painted them and splattered a bit of gold paint. I created a frame by cutting out the centre of a piece of gold cs with a double stitched rectangle die.

Last one is a very quick CAS card for Color Hues "Green and Gold".  It's also for the Neglected Stuff challenge - I haven't used this stamp set since 2017!

I stamped the base tree in green, then heat embossed the overlap in gold.  I wanted a border that matched the gold on the tree and sentiment so I cut a rectangle one size larger, went around the edge of it with Versamark and heat embossed with the same gold embossing powder all around the edge.

 
     

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black background stamp, SU birthday wishes, Impression Obsession belated
Ink - Distress Oxide Shabby Shutters and Speckled Egg, Archival Potting Soil
Paper - white hammered cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Poppy Stamps flower die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - The Stampin' Place hollyhocks
Ink - ColorBox Gold
Paper - watercolour paper, gold and off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - gold embossing powder, watercolour paints, Memory Box double stitched rectangle die cut, Spellbinders rectangle die

Supplies for card 3:
Stamps - SU Solemn Stillness tree, Rosie's Roadshow sentiment
Ink - ColorBox green and gold
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - gold embossing powder, Spellbinders rectangle dies

Star with Greenery / Spring Blossoms with Hummingbird

Color Hues wants to see green and gold, and Shopping our Stash wants us to feature gold.

I die cut a star and sentiment out of gold mirror cs, and some greenery out of white shimmer and green shimmer cs. Assembled the card and finished with a gold cord bow.

Seize the Birthday wants Anything with Wings, Four Seasons has a Spring challenge, and I've got birds and blooms for the Triple B challenge (any of birds, blooms, and / or butterflies).

 

I inked up the blossoms stamp in my MISTI with markers, then spritzed lightly with water I die cut the hummingbird out of watercolour paper and coloured him with watercolour paints. His beak is glued down to the centre of one blossom and the rest of him is popped up with foam tape to give the sense of him hovering over the blossom. 

  

 

Supplies for card 1:
Paper - white linen cs, white and green shimmer cs, gold mirror cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Spellbinders star die, Tim Holtz greenery and joy dies, gold cord

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Penny Black blossoms, SU sentiment
Ink - Ranger Archival Potting Soil
Paper - Ranger Archival Potting Soil
Size - A2
Accessories - Tombow markers, Gina Marie hummingbird die, watercolour paints, foam tap

Fun with 3-2-1 and Jingle Bells

Try It on Tuesday has a fun challenge called 3-2-1.  I searched for a stamp that would have 3 of something, 2 of something else, etc.  and found this one - I've got 3 ornaments, 2 birds, and 1 tree.

Stamped and watercoloured, trimmed, bordered with green, a sentiment on a stitched sentiment banner, and glossy accents on the ornaments.

ABC Christmas Challenge is "D is for Ding Dong Bells" and Jingle Belles Challenge wants music (I went with the title of a Christmas song).

The bells are die cut out of watercolour paper sprinkled with copper-coloured Magicals and spritzed with water.  They are mounted on a starry embossed panel with copper cord "hanging" them on the panel.  The sentiment is heat embossed with copper and die cut with the same stitched banner die as the first card.

    

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black tree and birds, Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - Distress Lucky Clover, Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, off white and green cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Glossy Accents

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - ColorBox copper
Paper - white cs, watercolour paper
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Lil Inker bell dies, star embossing folder, stitched banner die, copper Magicals, copper cord, copper embossing powder

Candle and Ornaments

Peace on Earth's new mood board has lots of green and gold.  The top right hand image inspired me to make this card:

I stamped the candle and ornaments image, and then coloured it with coloured pencils (except for the tiny stars that I coloured with a gold Gelly Roll pen).  I didn't want a bright red poinsettia as it would detract from the green and gold theme, so coloured it in a pale cream with just a bit of red veining.  The image is trimmed with a stitched square die and added to a gold embossed star background to tie in more with the  image.

Please head over to Peace on Earth to see how the rest of the Design Team were inspired by our mood board, and then come and join us with your card.

Supplies:
Stamps - unknown candle stamp, Stampendous sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs, gold shimmer cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - coloured pencils, Lil Inker stitched square die, Sizzix stars embossing folder