Sparkling Ornaments

Peace on Earth's new mood board (see it at the end of my post) has lovely images of white ornaments.  Here's the card they inspired:

I stamped on a light kraft cs with Versamark and embossed with a white sparkly embossing powder - in real life it's very glittery but so hard to photograph!  Trimmed the panel to leave a kraft border and mounted on a shimmery off white card base.  Stamped the sentiment on the same cs and trimmed with a banner die.

There is lots more fabulous inspiration from our Peace on Earth design team.  We'd love to have you join us - either inspired by our mood board or "anything Christmas".

I'm also linking this card up with Christmas Kickstart "Bring the Baubles".

Supplies:
Stamps - Indigo Blu ornaments, Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Versamark, Archival Potting Soil
Paper - light kraft cs, off white shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Judikins White Diamond embossing powder, stitched banner die

Two Winter Cards

It actually feels wintery here in Vancouver today - frost on all the roofs, chilly temperatures (going down to -7C tonight which is cold for us).  So what better day to do some winter-themed challenges?

For the Four Seasons Challenge "Winter", I was inspired by the top left image of their mood board with the blue sky and white tree.

I made a smooshed background with blue Distress inks, tore a strip of white cs for the snowy ground, die cut a tree and a deer out of white cs and put my scene together.

The Stencil Fun Challenge has an optional theme of winter.  And The Sisterhood of Crafters want snowflakes.

I stencilled the background with light blue inks, added a die cut snowflake and a round sentiment cut from blue shimmer cs.

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - various blue Distress inks
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - TH tree die, reindeer die, sentiment banner die

Supplies for card 2:
Ink - light blue Distress inks
Paper - white cs, blue shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - TCW Winter Wonderland stencil, TH snow die and snowflake die

Blue with Dove and Starry Sympathy

 Many of you know I love blue so I'm thrilled to see these two challenges - Addicted to CAS "Code Word Blue" and Try It on Tuesday "Feeling Blue".  And AAA Cards wants a CAS card with something that flies in the air.

I roughly painted a paneil with a couple of shades of blue acrylic paint and then stamped and heat embossed my dove in white.  I trimmed the panel with a hemstitch square die and mounted it on a white card base.

My Time to Craft wants to see a sentiment - I went with the sentiment being a major part of the card.  It's also perfect for Word Power where the sentiment has to be the focus of the card.

I stamped my sentiment in black and then lightly stencilled some stars over and around it.  Trimmed the panel and popped it up on fun foam of a dull gold shimmer card base.

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - unknown dove stamp
Ink - ColorBox white
Paper - white cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - blue acrylic paints, white embossing powder, Spellbinders square hemstitch die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Verses sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, Distress Oxide Antique Linen
Paper - white cs, dull gold shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - star stencil, Spellbinders rectangle die, fun foam

Festive Bear, Red and Kraft Valentine, and Snowy Horses

Three cards again today - I was home all day (that's rare for me) so spent the afternoon making a few cards to enter in challenges before they close.

First up for Festive Friday "National Winnie the Pooh Day".  My card has nothing to do with Winnie the Pooh but it uses five of the elements from Festive Friday's list - brown, yellow, red, bear, and colouring techniques (I used coloured pencils with Gamsol).  It's also for The Twelve Months of Christmas "Polar Bears".

I stamped the image in dark brown then coloured with coloured pencils, using lots of red, yellow, and brown.  I blended the shading on the bear with Gamsol and blending stumps.  I trimmed it with a stitched square, bordered with brown cs, and added it to a square card base.

Next up the first of the Valentines I make every year for my best friend (she orders 10 every year).  She loves seeing text on the background of the cards.  It's for The Color Hues Challenge "Red and Kraft".

The background is a kraft dp printed with old fashioned script.  I topped it with a die cut heart duo and die cut sentiment, and added it to a matching red card base.

And back to Christmas cards, for Jingle Belles "Something Old, Something New" and Simply Clean and Simple "Something New".  I used a new horse stamp I hadn't yet used (so I'm also linking it up with the NBUS Challenge) and a snowflake background stamp I've had for many years.

I stamped snowflake background in pale blue, then stamped the horses below it. Added a sentiment, trimmed the panel with a square die, bordered with black cs, and used a quickie glue pen and glitter along all the snowy lines on the fence.

 

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - SU Bearing Gifts
Ink - Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves
Paper - white and brown cs
Size - 4.5" square
Accessories - coloured pencils, Gamsol, Lil Inkers stitched square die

Supplies for card 2:
Paper - red cs, kraft script dp
Size - 6.25x3.25"
Accessories - Tim Holtz love die, Poppy Stamps Heart String die

Supplies for card 3:
Stamps - Cardio horses, Penny Black sentiment, Impression Obsession snowflake background
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Broken China
Paper - white and black cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - square dies, glitter