Musical Snow and a Simple Robin

Four challenges inspired this card - Time Out "Music" , Jingle Belles "Snow", Allsorts "Monochromatic", and Colorful Options "Black and White".

I made a background of snowflakes with silver glitter paste, a snowflake stencil, and black cs.  Trimmed it and added it to a white cardbase.  Die cut the snowflake / music score twice out of white cs and glued them together for more substance.  Stamped "let it snow" on a scrap of black cs, heat embossed in white, then rubbed ink around the edges and heat embossed the edges in white.

Christmas Kickstart "Seasons Tweetings", Simply CAS "Things that Fly", Sweet Stampin' "Things with Wings", Try It On Tuesday "Keep It Simple", and ABC Christmas Challenge "J is for Just Enough (Clean and Simple) - all inspired this card.

I stamped and watercoloured the image, and trimmed the panel into a square. Then using the SSS thin circle frame, I cut a thin circle out of my square. With the same die, I cut a thin circle frame out of red cs and inserted it into the gap in the square.

   

    

   

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Art Impressions sentiment
Ink - ColorBox white
Paper - white and black cs
Size - A2
Accessories - SSS Jingle Snowflakes die, white embossing powder, silver glitter paste, Paper Rose snowflake stencil

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Nellie Snellen bird, Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, red and off white cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - watercolour paints, SSS thin circle frame

Mice with Presents

I pulled out some not-yet-used stamps after being inspired by the mice with Christmas presents in the bottom left image of the new Peace on Earth mood board.  I've got three mice with presents and a similar colour scheme to the image.

I stamped the two images and coloured them with coloured pencils.  Then on another piece of cs, I stamped the sentiment, cut two square openings, and trimmed it with a wonky stitched rectangle die.  I popped this layer up over the stamped images.

It's also getting linked up with Sparkles Christmas Challenge "Gifts" 

Here's the Peace on Earth mood board that inspired me.  Be sure to check out what the rest of our Design Team created and then come and join us!

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - off white and kraft cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Spellbinders square die, MFT wonky stitched rectangle die

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