Colourful Christmas Tree

The new Peace on Earth mood board has a lot of colourful rainbow Christmas decorations.  I was inspired by the lower left image (see the mood board at the end of my post).

I stamped the tree and then coloured the little circles in a similar colour palette to the image.  I trimmed the panel with a dotted rectangle die and added a sentiment banner across the top.  I went over the coloured dots with Glossy Accents.  

I wanted to border it with rainbow glitter cs but didn't have any left so created my own - I die cut a rectangle of cs, ran strips of double sided tape down the four edges, and sprinkled with JoAnn's multi-coloured glitter.  It's a bit chunky so it left sticky bits of the tape exposed so I took a fine clear glitter and added it over the coloured glitter to fill in all the sticky bits of tape.

We'd love you to check out the rest of the inspiration from our Peace on Earth Design Team, and if you're inspired by our mood board, or prefer to make an anything Christmas card, we'd love to have you join us.

Supplies:
Stamps - Lavinia Christmas tree, unknown sentiment
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - alcohol markers, Sizzix Dotted Rectangle die, banner die, Spellbinders rectangle die, double-sided tape, JoAnn's multi-coloured chunky glitter, MS fine clear glitter, Glossy Accents

Tea with Books and Sunflowers with Horses

Sweet Stampin' wants to see "Beverages" and Shopping our Stash wants to see a "Just Because" card.   A friend gave me this stamp set as she thought it was perfect for me as a retired librarian - it's the first time I've used it so entering it in NBUS as well.

I coloured it in blue as I'm going to send it to my youngest sister who loves blue, tea, and reading as much as I do, and loves to get cards from me.

The image is coloured with coloured pencils and popped up on fun foam. The background is an embossing folder that went well with the scrolls on the tea cup.

I've also got a card for Double D "Sunflowers". 

I stamped the image and coloured it with coloured pencils, bordered with black cs, mounted on a kraft card base, and added a white heat embossed sentiment on a scrap of black cs.

   

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - unknown
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Cuttlebug embossing folder, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Impression Obsession horses, Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, ColorBox white
Paper - white, black, and kraft cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, white embossing powder

Leafy Sympathy and Christmas Dog

A sympathy / thinking of you card that is for Can You Handle the Pressure (Leaves), AAA Card Challenge (Sympathy or Get Well), and My Time to Craft (something tree-related, which of course, leaves are).

I used a leafy embossing folder for my background and an oval die cut for the sentiment that both cuts and dry embosses.  For the focal image, I stamped the leaves in two different shades of green, trimmed the panel and popped it up on fun foam.

I can't do a post at this time of year without including a Christmas card.  For Inkspirational (CAS with an Animal).

A simple stamped and watercoloured image, bordered with black, and on a mini slimline red card base.

 

  

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - SU Very Versailles, Rubber Stamp Tapestry sentiment
Ink - Memento Bamboo Leaves, Distress Bundled Sage
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Cuttlebug embossing folder, oval die, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Colorado Craft Co. dog, PB sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Clair
Paper - watercolour paper, red and black cs
Size - 6.25x3.25"
Accessories - watercolour paints