Christmas Kickstart wants to see a frame on the card. I did a very thin circular frame around my cardinal. And Stamping Sensations has a twist of Christmas in July.
I stamped the image and watercoloured it. I die cut a thin circle out of the panel with the SSS Thin Circle Frame die and watercoloured it the same red as the cardinal. I trimmed the remaining outer part of the panel into a square, attached it to a piece of fun foam, then carefully glued in the thin red circle frame, and then finally added in the circle with the image. Those thin circle die cuts are very flimsy to deal with!
Inkspirational has a different kind of challenge - feature products from 2 or more stamp companies. This card uses products from several different companies - Mama Elephant, Simon Says Stamp, and Impression Obsession stamps, Tim Holtz and Carta Bella stencils, Versafine, Distress, and Delicata inks, and Tim Holtz and Cosmic Shimmer pastes. Mixed media is a great way to use different brands together.
I stamped some small sentiment stamps on two of the edges with the dark blue ink, and went around the edges with a shimmery blue paste.
Because one of my small sentiments says "love the twinkle lights", I die cut some lights out of gold mirror cs and added them on top, along with a sentiment strip.
Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - SU Christmas Cardinal
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - watercolour paints, SSS Thin Circle Frame die, fun foam
Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Mama Elephant long sentiment, SSS small sentiments, Impression Obsession snowflakes and stars background stamps
Ink - Versafine Clair Twilight, various blue Distress inks, Delicata gold
Paper - white cs, gold mirror cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Mama Elephant sentiment strip die, Distress mica
stain Frosted Juniper, TH grit paste, TH star stencil, Carta Bella
snowflake stencil, Cosmic Shimmer blue opal past
