Two Christmas, One Birthday

I'm definitely in the mood for making cards these days.  Must be something about the change in the weather!

First up for Can You Handle the Pressure? (use an embossing folder and have a sentiment on the card), Christmas Cards All Year Round (snowmen), and for Christmas Kickstart ("embossing folder fun"):

I used a corner embossing folder on my focal panel.  I stamped and heat embossed my snowman image in dark blue and trimmed it close to its border so that it would fit in the space left by the embossing folder.

For Shopping our Stash (leaves), I pulled out a stamp I hadn't yet inked up so I'm adding it to the NBUS challenge as well.

I put the stamp in my MISTI and inked it up with Tombow markers, spritzing lightly and   stamping on mixed media cs.  I trimmed the panel with a pierced dot rectangle and went around the edges with Antique Linen Distress ink to give it a vintage look.  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on brown cs, and used a red shimmer card base.  I finished it off with Glossy Accents on the berries.

I've got a third card today as I needed to make a birthday card for a friend that I go out for tea with a lot.  I'm entering it at Festive Friday where they are celebrating National Dessert Day - nothing like cupcakes and iced cookies for dessert!  I've got pink, cream, desserts, spoon, and stamping from their inspiration list.

I kept the card very CAS card as the image is quite busy. Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils, bordered with dark pink, and popped up on fun foam.

   

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Local King
Ink - Versafine Majestic Blue
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing powder, snowflake swirl embossing folder

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Tim Holtz holly, Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Distress Antique Linen, Versamark
Paper - mixed media cs, brown cs, red shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Spellbinders pierced dots rectangle die, Tombow markers, Papermania Seafoam embossing powder, Glossy Accents

Supplies for card 3:
Stamps - SavvyStamps sentiment, Serendipity Afternoon Tea
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - Bristol cs, dark pink cs, linen cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, fun foam

Summer Tea Time

The Four Seasons Challenge is celebrating summer right now and there is nothing I like better in the summer than having tea in the garden with friends.  And the Paper Players challenge is asking for Food and / or Beverages.  So I made this card that has both food and beverage, and is perfect for summer tea in the garden. 

I've had this stamp for years and have no idea who made it.  I coloured it with coloured pencils, trimmed it with a stitched rectangle die, and bordered with some dp that's been in my stash for as long as I've had the old stamp - good to revisit some old supplies!

I would love to be sitting down to tea and cake right now!  I can do the tea but I don't have any cake on hand!

The Paper Players

The Four Seasons Challenge "Summer"

Supplies:
Stamps - unknown
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - white cs, unknown dp
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangle die

A Cake with Kisses

Seize the Birthday challenge is asking for cakes.  I have a new stamp that was a free gift with an order I placed with ArtSpecially.  So I'll also enter the card in Darnell's NBUS Challenge.

ArtSpecially is a Dutch company so I had to check the meaning of the word "Kusje" under the cake - it means kisses which makes perfect sense with the row of three "x's" under it.

I stamped it and coloured with coloured pencils, added a small birthday sentiment in pink, and popped it up on fun foam on a pale green dry embossed background.

Seize the Birthday

 

NBUS Challenge

 

 

Supplies:
Stamps - ArtSpecially cake, SSS sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Rose Bud
Paper - white and pale green cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, fun foam, Sizzix embossing folder