Glittered Ornament and Jingle Bells

First up, a very CAS card.  My Time to Craft Christmas wants to see glitter.  I used a technique I saw on SCS for using up glitter.  It's also for the Try It On Tuesday Challenge to keep it simple.

I covered a piece of packing tape with a Christmas glitter blend I have (but had never used!). Added a top layer of tape and die cut the ornament. I "hung" it on my centre panel and popped that panel up on fun foam on the card base, and added a sentiment.

I used some of my hammered cs - it adds some nice texture to a very CAS card.  Since I've had it for a couple of years but haven't used any of it yet (and had never used the Christmas glitter mix that I've had for at least 10 years!!!), I'm linking it up at the NBUS Challenge and the Neglected Stuff Challenge.

Now on to my second card for today.  The Jingle Belles Challenge is asking for jingle bells, the ABC Christmas Challenge is "j for jingle bells", and the Double D Challenge wants us to use designer paper.

I die cut the bells twice and glued them together for more dimension.  Added them to some starry designer paper.  Stamped and fussy cut the sentiment and added it.  

   

 
 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black sentiment
Ink - ColorBox Gold
Paper - white hammered cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Spellbinders ornament die and long rectangle die, Christmas glitter mix, packing tape, gold thread, gold embossing powder, sentiment strip die, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Dylusions sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx black
Paper - white and gold cs, decorative paper
Size - A2
Accessories - Lil Inker bell dies

Blue Bells for Christmas

My goodness, the weeks roll around quickly!  Time for a new Peace on Earth challenge - anything goes as long as it's Christmas but you can choose to be inspired by the mood board.  I chose the bottom right image (see the mood board below) and made this card:

No stamping on this card - just lots of die cutting.  The branch and sentiment are cut from green shimmer cs, the stitched die cut panel and card base are white shimmer cs, and the bells are blue glitter cs.  I also cut the bells from a scrap of white cs and glued them together to give the bells more substance.  They are hung from the branch with gold cord and popped up a bit with dimensional tape.

Here's the Peace on Earth mood board:

I'm also entering it in the Snippets challenge as I used scraps of shimmer and glitter cs for the die cutting.

Supplies:
Paper - white and green shimmer cs, blue glitter cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Lil Inker bells and stitched rectangle dies, Impression Obsession pine branch die, Essentials by Ellen sentiment dies, foam tape, gold cord

Two More Colour Challenge Cards

Lots of the January challenges have really appealed to me.  I've got two cards today for colour challenges.

Color Hues wants silver and white.

A very quick card with silver heat embossing for the trees and sentiment on the focal panel that is layered on a dry embossed background.

Here's another photo where the dry embossing and the image are sharper but the silver doesn't show up as much (silver is so darn hard to photograph):

My second card is for the Color Throwdown "Red, Cream, and Gold".

Another very quick CAS card.  Stamped and heat embossed in gold on cream cs, with the ribbon coloured with a red marker and the bells coloured with a gold metallic pen.  Trimmed with a stitched rectangle die, bordered in red, and popped up on a cream card base.

Color Hues

 

Color Throwdown

 

Krafty Chicks "Clean and Simple" (for my second card)

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - SU Lovely as a Tree, unknown sentiment
Ink - ColorBox silver
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - silver embossing powder, fun foam, Embossalicious embossing folder

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Creative Images
Ink - ColorBox gold
Paper - cream cs, red shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - gold embossing powder, red marker, gold metallic pen, Lil Inkers stitched rectangle die, fun foam

Jingle Bells

A quick reminder about the CAS Christmas challenge that is running until June 24th.  This month the theme is Bells.

I stamped the bells on watercolour paper and painted with my Gansai Tambi paints that include metallic gold and copper paints.  I used them on the bells - in real life, there is more shimmer than in the photo.  I fussy cut the bells, popped them up on a cs square with "Jingle" stamped on it, and bordered with gold shimmer cs.

You have until June 24th to enter our "Bells" CAS challenge.  Please check out the other samples from the Design Team if you want more inspiration.

Supplies:
Stamps - SU bells, unknown sentiment
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - watercolour paper, gold shimmer and white cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Gansai Tambi watercolour paints, foam tape

Christmas Bells

The new CAS Christmas challenge is "Bells".

 

It was the perfect opportunity to pull out my bell dies and a scrap of gold glitter cs.

I die cut the bells, carefully saving the little stars that fell out of them.  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on white cs and then trimmed it with a wonky stitched rectangle.

I threaded ribbon through the bells and taped it to the back of my sentiment panel, and then popped the bells up in place with pop dots.  I glued on the little stars that fell out of the dies.  I added the panel to the card base with fun foam.

We'd love to have you join us at CAS Christmas.  There is lots of inspiration from our Design Team and this month's Guest Designer, LeAnne (Wee Inklings).  You have until June 24th to enter.

Supplies:
Stamps - Impression Obsession sentiment
Ink - Distress Oxide Candied Apple
Paper - gold glitter and white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Lil Inker bell dies, MFT Wonky Stitched rectangle die, sparkly embossing powder, pop dots, fun foam

A Dog with Bells

The Jingle Belles challenge wants "Bells" on our cards this time.

And The 12 Months of Christmas challenge is "Deck the Paws" - have a dog or a cat as the main focus.

I have a stamp that covers both challenges!

I stamped and heat embossed the dog and sentiment, then masked it and added the stars through a stencil, using silver embossing paste.  I coloured the bells with a silver glitter pen and bordered the panel with silver cs and popped it up on the card base.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope everyone is doing okay.

Supplies:
Stamps - Creative Images
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white and silver cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing powder, Memory Box star stencil, silver embossing paste, silver glitter pen, fun foam

Musical Notation with Bells

The 52 Christmas Card Throwdown wants us to pick one of the challenges from 2017.  I chose April 2017:

Here's my card:

I die cut the bells out of scraps of white cs, rubbed Versamark over them and added the new Emerald Creek Charred Gold embossing powder, and then repeated both steps again to get a lovely thick coating that really looks like metal. I die cut another set of the bells and glued them to the backs of the heat embossed ones to give more substance.

The sentiment (that is words to a carol so appropriate with the musical notation background) is heat embossed with a detail platinum embossing powder and then trimmed with a deckle edge die.

Bells and sentiment are mounted on a music embossed background, and for the cords on the bells, I twisted pieces of both gold and silver SU metallic cord together - blended together they are closer in colour to the bells.

I hope you're all enjoying the Christmas music.  I don't like it to start too early - round about now is when I always start listening.

Supplies:

Stamps - Penny Black sentiment

Ink - Versamark

Paper - white cs

Size - A2

Accessories - Lil Inker Jingle Bells dies, PSX Platinum embossing powder, Emerald Creek Charred Gold embossing powder, Sizzix embossing folder, Spellbinders deckle edge die, SU gold and silver cord

Tessa Plays with the Sleigh Bells!

The latest Addicted to CAS challenge is:

 

I decided to add to my Christmas card stash and base it on my own pets by using a stamp of an English Cocker Spaniel:

I love my old Creative Images stamp of a spaniel tangled up in a ribbon of sleigh bells. It comes with the sentiment as part of it so makes for a quick card.

 

I coloured the ribbon in red copic marker and the bells with a gold glitter pen. Die cut the panel with a stitched rectangle die and popped it up on a dark gold card base.  I die cut some stars out of the same dark gold cs and scattered them around the top of the dog.

 

The image looks a lot like my dogs, especially the younger one, who's still puppy enough to do exactly what the dog in the image is doing!

Those of you who read about and saw puppy photos of Tessa on my blog last summer might be wondering how she's doing - she's 9 months old now, a very happy energetic and playful dog.  Here's a recent photo photo of her happily playing outside and getting tired and grubby:

And my dear old Will turned 13 on January 31st.  Here's a photo of him from last summer, still a handsome boy:

Pets are so enriching in our lives.  I'm looking forward to seeing all the other ATCAS Pet cards!

Supplies:

Stamps - Creative Images

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper - white and dark gold cs

Size - A2

Accessories - red copic marker, gold glitter pen, SSS star die, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die, fun foam

Silver and Gold

I'm back to Christmas cards today.  First up is one for Merry Monday's "Black, White, and Grey/Silver" challenge.

I stamped and heat embossed my image in black, then went over the bells with a quickie glue pen and added silver glitter.  I stencilled stars around the dog and used a silver texture paste topped with the same silver glitter.  Bordered with black and added to a white card base.

To help me get all of my Christmas cards before autumn arrives, I take part in the SCS Christmas Card Challenge.  You set yourself a monthly quota and try to stick to it.  Mine is 10 per month so this will be one of my March cards.

I fell behind a bit in February so needed one more for my quota of 10.  Various members suggest optional themes for each month - February's was white and gold so today's card is for that:

A quick card that (with my MISTI) would be easy to mass produce (if I were so inclined). Angel and sentiment are heat embossed in gold, the panel is popped up on fun foam, and some gold sequins scattered about.

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies for the first card:

Stamps: Creative Images

Paper: white and black cs

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories: clear embossing powder, Memory Box star stencil, Heidi Swapp silver texture paste, silver glitter, quickie glue pen

Supplies for the second card:

Stamps: Inkadinkado angel, PTI sentiment

Paper: white cs

Paper Size: A2

Ink: ColorBox gold

Accessories: gold embossing powder, gold sequins, fun foam

Merry Monday Bells

I was thrilled to win the "chalkboard" challenge at Merry Monday last week!  It means they've invited me to be the Guest Designer for the upcoming challenge "Make a Card with Bells on It".

 Here's my card:

I had run off a bunch of pieces using a friend's musical score embossing folder and had this narrow strip of it sitting in my UFO box.  The space at the bottom made me think of a new stamp I recently bought - I thought it would work well with the curviness of the embossing folder.  Here's the stamp:

I knew I couldn't fit in the whole stamp, and all I really wanted was the sentiment, so I used my Versamarker to ink up the part I wanted and then heat embossed it in gold. It just fit!!  

I die cut three bells out of dark gold glitter cs and strung them on gold cord, keeping the curviness idea going.  The bells and the whole panel are popped up with foam tape.

Thank you, Merry Monday, for the honour!

Supplies:

Stamps - Great Impressions "Jingle All the Way"

Ink - Versamarker pen

Paper - white cs, gold glitter cs

Size - A2

Accessories - L'il Inker bell die, musical score embossing folder, gold cord, foam tape

Jingle Bells for Happy Little Stampers

It's time for another Christmas card challenge at Happy Little Stampers.  This month the theme is "jingle".  I had a few ideas for my contribution to the Design Team but ended up going with bells and a Happy Little Stampers' sentiment stamp.  Here's my card:

I started by embossing a frame for my bells, just to add more interest and texture.

Then I die cut the Lil Inker Jingle Bells dies out of three different glitter cs and out of scraps of white cs (to layer behind the glitter cs and give them more substance and dimension).

I attached them with matching colours of metallic twine.  And I just couldn't toss all those little stars that fell out of the die cuts so scattered them about the bells.

The "jingle bells" sentiment is stamped and heat embossed in copper.  And a layer of fun foam pops up the whole panel.

I know Christmas just ended but, if you're like me and enjoy making Christmas cards all year, you've got until the end of January to join in over at Happy Little Stampers (and possibly win a stamp set from Happy Little Stampers!).

Supplies:

Stamps - Happy Little Stampers Mixed Christmas Sentiments

Ink - ColorBox copper

Paper - white cs; gold, silver, and copper glitter cs

Size - A2

Accessories - Lil Inker jingle bells dies; gold, silver, and copper metallic twine; fun foam, copper embossing powder, Paper Studio embossing folder