Gold Angel

For the new Peace on Earth challenge, I was inspired by the top right image on our mood board to use an angel and keep the colour scheme gold and white.

I stamped and heat embossed the angel and sentiment in gold, trimmed it with a square die, layered it on some gold and white dp, and then added all that to a white card base.

Here's our mood board.  Check out how the rest of the Design Team was inspired by it over at Peace on Earth.

I'm also linking it up with Try It on Tuesday "Emboss It" challenge - the angel is heat embossed.

Supplies:
Stamps - Inkadinkado angel, Penny Black sentiment
Ink - ColorBox gold
Paper - white cs, gold and white dp
Size - 5.25" square
Accessories - gold embossing powder, Spellbinders square dies

Sentiment Sticker with Snowflakes and the Sport of Show Jumping

First up for Jingle Belles - use Christmas stickers, whether images or sentiments.  The challenge reminded me that I have a lot of stick-on sentiments that I never use so pulled them out of a dusty drawer and used one on this card.

I used a round gelli plate, various snowflake stamps, and various shades of blue ink for the background.The gold snowflakes were stamped and heat embossed once the gelli plate print was dry.  I used a gold sentiment sticker to tie in to the gold snowflakes.  I must remember to use those stickers more often!

And then a non-Christmas card for The Sisterhood of Crafters "Sports".   I went with the sport of show jumping!

 

 

The image is by a well known British cartoonist, Thelwell, who did wonderful cartoons of very naughty ponies and small children.  

 

It's stamped and coloured with coloured pencils, and then I added Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the water the pony is about to jump into (or the child is going to fall into!).  I've stamped Happy Birthday inside it and I'm giving it to a good friend who is an avid rider.

 

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - various snowflake stamps
Ink - gold and various blue inks
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - gelli plate, gold embossing powder, gold sentiment sticker

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Isobel Craft Collection Thelwell stamps
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white and kraft cs
Size - 5.75x5"
Accessories - coloured pencils, Nuvo Crystal Glaze
 

Woodland Bunny

I've got a very CAS card for CAS Christmas "Woodland Critters".  I chose one of the adorable Anita Jeram images featuring a rabbit and his little bird friend.

Simply stamped and watercoloured.  Then trimmed with a rectangle die.  I took a smaller sized thin frame die and cut it to fit around the image but leaving a border of white.  Then I cut the same size thin frame out of green cs.  I put it back together with the green thin frame in place of the white one and tossed the white one.  I put the panel on fun foam to create a bit of dimension.

Check out the other Design Team members' cards over at CAS Christmas and then come and join us with some woodland critters.

I'm also adding it to Christmas Cards All Year Round "Something Starting with R or S" (I have R is for rabbit) and the NBUS Challenge (it's the first time I used the rabbit stamp).

  

Supplies:
Stamps - Colorado Craft Co. Anita Jeram image and sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, off white and green cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, SSS thin frame die, Spellbinder rectangle die

Christmas Quilt

Christmas Cards All Year Round wants to see thing that start with P or Q.  It seemed a perfect opportunity to make some Christmas "quilt" cards - I not only have q for quilt, but also p for patterned paper.   It's also going to the Snippets Playground Challenge. 

 

I pulled out my quilt die and three different scraps of patterned paper that were at least 4" square and cut the quilt die from each. I cut a square from a sheet of double-sided sookwang tape and stuck it on a square of scrap cs, placed one of the outline border on it, and then inset the little patterned pieces. I did it with fine pointed tweezers - easier than using my fingers! Added the quilt to the card base, and then I created a tiny tag from an old tag punch for the sentiment stuck it on the centre of the quilt and embellished with a tiny adhesive gemstone. I have a bunch of pieces leftover so will put them together in different colour variations at some point.

Supplies:
Stamps - Wordsworth Wee Noel
Ink - Memento Rhubarb Stalk
Paper - white cs, various Christmas dp
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Gina Marie quilt die, McGill tag punch, red gemstone

A Butterfly and a Quartet of Ornaments

The Penny Black Saturday Challenge wants "Things with Wings" so I got out one of my favourite Penny Black butterfly stamps.  It's also going to the Triple B challenge - I chose butterflies out of birds, butterflies, and / or blooms.

I made a background by inking up a tiny squares stencil with various Distress inks, spritzing it with water, and pressing it onto mixed media cs. When dry, I stamped some bits of text and postmarks on it in grey ink. I stamped and heat embossed the butterfly. Then watercoloured it and fussy cut it. I glued its body to the background and popped its wings up with dimensionals. Then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment.

My second card is for the ABC Christmas Challenge "Q is for Quartet" (four of something).  I have four ornaments in my image.  Christmas Cards All Year Round wants anything starting with "Q" so my quartet of ornaments works for them as well.   I'm also adding it to the Rudolph Days Challenge.

The ornaments are stamped in black (though it came out kind of light as the ink pad is old) and then coloured with two green and one red Tombow markers. I coloured the tops of the ornaments with a silver gelli pen. A small vertical sentiment fit well in the space. I used a green/grey cs to border it as black looked too harsh with the pale stamping.

   

 

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black butterfly, unknown sentiment, various script and postmark stamps
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black and Morning Mist, various blue and mauve Distess inks
Paper - watercolour paper, mixed media cs, off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing powder, watercolour paints, stencil with little squares, dimensionals

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Great Impressions ornaments, Rosie's Roadshow sentiment
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - white and green/grey cs
Size - 6x3.25"
Accessories - Tombow markers, silver gelli pen

Christmas Gifts on a Gatefold

The latest Peace on Earth challenge features a mood board showing images of southern hemisphere Christmases.  I have no use for a "beach" or "summer weather" Christmas card so I took the pile of gifts in the bottom left image as my inspiration for this card.

I folded my card base into a traditional gatefold.  I made a background panel by randomly inking up a snowflake / Christmas text stamp with pink and green Distress inks, spritzing lightly with water, and stamping on watercolour paper.  I split the background in two and added the pieces to the gatefold fronts.  I stamped the image of the pile of gifts, watercoloured it in the same colours as the gifts in my inspiration image, and fussy cut it.  I added fun foam to the back of it and glued it just to the left side of the gatefold.

Here's a close up of the gifts and some of the background:

Here's the Peace on Earth mood board.  Head over to our website and see what the rest of the Design Team made.  Then join us with either your interpretation of the mood board or an "anything Christmas" card.

Supplies:
Stamps - Jofy gifts, unknown snowflake / Christmas text background stamp
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Pickled Raspberry, Shabby Shutters, and Peeled Paint
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, fun foam

White on White Star and a Sledding Bunny

AAA Cards wants a CAS card featuring something that starts with "S".  My card features a star, score lines, silver thread, a sentiment "star light, star bright", and silver ink.  It's also for Sparkles Christmas Challenge that wants a CAS card.

I stamped the sentiment in silver and scored some lines on the card base.  Then die cut a star and several branches of greenery out of white cs, then arranged them with some thin silver thread onto the card.
 

For 52 Christmas Card Throwdown's colour challenge "Red, Green, Brown", I have a brown bunny, sledding on a green leaf, with a red card base.

Stamped and coloured with coloured pencils, added to a red card base and embellished with some die cut snowflakes.

  

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Great Impressions sentiment
Ink - silver ink
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - ScorPal, Spellbinders star die, Sizzix greenery dies, silver thread

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Penny Black Arctic Antics, Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - whtie and red cs
Size - 5.5"x4"
Accessories - coloured pencils, various small snowflake dies

Candy Canes on a Christmas Tree

The new Peace on Earth mood board has images featuring candy canes, including one of a Christmas tree decorated with red and white striped decorations.  I decided to create a Christmas tree decorated with candy canes.

The tree is die cut once from green cs and twice from scraps of cs, and glued together.  I alternated the candy cane dies so I'd have some predominantly red ones and some predominantly white ones.  I ran silver metallic cord around the tree and hung the candy canes on it (and glued them down).  I die cut three small words and added them to the tree.  Then added the tree to a background embossed with a rustic frame border.

For more inspiration, check out the rest of the Design Team and see how they interpreted the mood board.

Supplies:
Paper - white, green, and red cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Spellbinders tree die, Memory Box tiny candy cane dies, Sizzix embossing folder, silver metallic cord

Santa and Sleigh

CAS Christmas is asking for Santa's Sleigh.

The image is stamped and watercoloured, then I trimmed it with a mini slimline rectangle die and sponged around the image with two shades of Distress ink.  I popped it up on fun foam on an off white card base.

Check out what the rest of the Design Team created over at CAS Christmas, and then join us with your own card featuring Santa's sleigh! 

Supplies:
Stamps - Crafter's Companion Nordic Christmas, SSS sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Chipped Sapphire and Seedless Preserves
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - 6.25x3.25"
Accessories - watercolour paints, fun foam

Toile Blossoms and Lavender Silhouette

Two non-Christmas cards today.  First up for Try It on Tuesday "Summer Blooms", Time Out "Mother Nature", Seize the Birthday "Anything Birthday", and Triple B "Birds, Butterflies, or Blooms".  

Multiple stamping of the images from an old SU set called Toile Blossoms, leaving space in the centre for the sentiment.  Then watercoloured, trimmed, bordered with dusky pink and grey/green.

My front garden is blooming with so much lavender right now - it made me want to do a card with a lavender theme.  My only lavender stamp is a silhouette one.  So I created this card for CAS on Friday "Flowers".   

I decided to play with bleach for the background. I masked a rectangle on a piece of white cs and sponged two shades of Distress ink in the rectangle. Then laid a stencil that looks a bit like lavender over it and gently sponged with bleach to lift the colour. It seeped under the stencil a bit - if you look closely you can see how it weirdly caused the ink colour to pool around the openings in the stencil and I lost a lot of the definition. I added a bit of subtle splatter with black ink. I removed the masking tape and stamped the lavender silhouette over it and added a vertical sentiment and a bit more splatter with white acrylic paint. Then trimmed with a stitched rectangle and popped it up on fun foam on the card base.

      

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - SU Toile Blossoms, unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, dusky pink, grey/green, and off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Spellbinders rectangle layering dies

Supplies:
Stamps - Magenta Lavender Silhouette, unknown sentiment
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Milled Lavnder and Spun Sugar
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Memory Box stencil. white acrylic paint, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die, fun foam