A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Tuesday, 21 October 2025

More Pink for Jingle Belles and a Hanukkah Card

I really admire Stef and Lauren of Jingle Belles for running their Pink Christmas challenge every year to raise money for breast cancer research.  It's a challenge for me for sure as I struggle with using non-traditional colours on my Christmas cards.  But I persevered and this year I made two pink Christmas cards (the other was posted in my previous post).  Here's the second:

This one has a real old rose shade of pink.  I used a piece of patterned paper for the background and then chose the closest shade of pink from amongst the several different shades of pink glitter cardstock that I have.  I die cut the poinsettia out of it once, and then cut it twice more out of scrap cs, then glued them together and added them to the patterned paper.  I used a very pale pink/grey shade of cs for the base and for the sentiment square.

My second card today is for Inkspirational - it wants to see a seasonal card (a card for one of the occasions in one of the seasons).  I chose Hanukkah for a change from Christmas cards.

There is a SCS tutorial for making the paper star here.  I used a lovely double-sided decorative paper I've had in my stash for ages.  I topped it with a silver glitter die cut Star of David and added it to a plain white card base with a heat embossed sentiment.

One more thing - few weeks ago, I posted this card:

In my post (see here), I mentioned not being that happy with the card.  A couple of people offered suggestions in the comments so I looked at it again and decided to add a green frame around the stencilling.  I cut a square out of the same green shimmer cs as the border layer and then used the original inverted scallop die to cut out the centre of the green square.  I glued it over the white layer.  Here's the result:

I was pretty happy with the results so I'll put the card in my fundraiser sale and see if it sells!

    




Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - small noel
Ink - Distress dark pink
Paper - dp, pink glitter cs, light pink/grey cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Penny Black poinsettia die, small square die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - SU sentiment
Ink - ColorBox silver
Paper - white cs, patterned paper, silver glitter cs
Size - A2
Accessories - silver embossing powder, SSS Star of David die

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6 comments:

  1. Pat22 October 2025 at 08:51

    A really pretty pink glittery poinsettia Susan and the background paper looks great with it, and your Star of David using that technique to make the background paper star looks great and beautifully finished with the silver glitter star over the top. The suggestion to add the frame in that pretty green around the stencilled foliage was a good one as it really leads the eye into the lovely foliage. x

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  2. Loll22 October 2025 at 13:29

    Beautiful pink Christmas card Susan. The background paper is so beautiful and the shade of pink is perfect with the glitter card you used for the poinsettia. Your Hanukkah card is so cool ... what a fabulous special fold to create the Star of David! And what a different adding a coloured frame make to your stenciled card. Great work! xx

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  3. Loll22 October 2025 at 13:30

    Wow ... need to use spellcheck. :) What a difference adding a coloured frame made to your stenciled card. :)

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  4. Julia Aston22 October 2025 at 14:09

    Three lovely designs here Susan! Love the 'origami' folded Star of David in the blue with the silver overlay! thanks for joining us at Inkspirational: Seasonal! Julia xx

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  5. lauren bergold22 October 2025 at 15:00

    Ok I would NEVER have guessed that using pink is a challenge for you bc you've ROCKED it (x2!!!) I absolutely adore this card (& that Hanukkah one is amazing too, btw) Many thanks for celebrating Pink Christmas with us once more at Jingle Belles and helping us raise money for the BCRF! ♥

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  6. Brenda in IN24 October 2025 at 13:52

    That pink sparkle poinsettia is a stunning card. Adding that green frame just changed up the look of the card and it is lovely. How cool you made your own Star of David, it looks great.

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