Summer Cottage Garden and Dove Flying High

A card for Shopping Our Stash's "Summertime" challenge and Allsorts "Garden" challenge:

Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils, trimmed with a pierced dot rectangle die and layered over a pink rectangle so that the pink shows through the pierced dots.  Then bordered with some floral dp, and added to a yellow card base.

I used the same floral dp to line an envelope:

 

 

It's going to a friend who just bought a new house.

 

Try It On Tuesday's challenge is "Flying High" - something that flies high in the sky.  I made a peace-themed Christmas card with a dove flying high among the stars.

 

I sponged silver ink through a star die, leaving space on the bottom right corner for a stamped heat embossed sentiment.  I covered a piece of scrap cs with double sided tape and added blue / silver gilding flakes.  Then die cut the dove out of it.
 

     

 

 

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps -
Ink -
Paper -
Size -
Accessories -

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - silver
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Sizzix Delicate Wings dove die, Cosmic Shimmer Blue Ice gilding flakes, star stencil, silver embossing powder

Cat in Knitwear, Pine in Circles, and Cocoa with Gingerbread Men

Three for Christmas today.  For the ABC Christmas Challenges "K is for Knitwear", I've got a cat all wrapped up in a knitted scarf.

Stamped and watercoloured, trimmed with a deckle edged rectangle and popped up on fun foam on a colour matched background layer. And for Try It On Tuesday "Going Round in Circles" and Inkspirational "For the Guys", a masculine Christmas card: I put the pine branch and pine cone in my MISTI and inked them up with Tombow markers and gave them a light spritz before stamping.  I trimmed it with a stitched circle die, cut a dark brown circle to border it with, and added it to a kraft card base. And a third card for Time Out "A Favourite Beverage" and The Male Room "Food and / or Drink": Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils, trimmed with a deckle rectangle die, popped up on fun foam on a background of dp featuring gingerbread men.

  

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Tim Holtz Christmas Snarky Cat
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, off white and teal cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Spellbinders deckle rectangle die, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - SU Ornamental Pine, unknown sentiment
Ink - gold ink
Paper - watercolour paper, dark brown and craft cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Tombow markers, Lil Inkers stitched circle die, Spellbinders circle die, sentiment banner die

Supplies for card 3:
Stamps - unknown
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - gingerbread man dp, white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Spellbinders deckle rectangle die, fun foam

Snowfall and a Shopping Teddy Bear

A few of my favourite Christmas challenges are asking for snow.  The Christmas Kickstart Challenge "Snow Alert", The 12 Months of Christmas "Snowfall", and Jingle Belles "Dashing Through the Snow".

I masked the snowy foreground, then did a stencil monoprint to create the snowy sky above it.  Then stamped and heat embossed the horses / fence image.  Trimmed the panel, bordered in black, and used a Quickie glue pen to add glitter to the tops of the fence rails.

The Penny Black Saturday Challenge is "Too Cute to Spook".  I don't need Halloween cards so made a Christmas card with a very cute teddy bear who looks so confident I'm sure nothing would spook him.

Stamped and watercoloured, trimmed with a stitched rectangle die, bordered with dp.

  

   

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Cardio horses / fence, SSS sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Clair, Distress Weathered Wood and Faded Jeans 
Paper - white and black cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing powder, clear glitter, snowflake stencil

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Penny Black bear, SSS sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs, DCWV dp
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die

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

Snowman in Joy

The new Peace on Earth mood board consists of four images of snowmen, all wearing scarves and hats.  I pulled out an old snowman stamp that would fit inside the letter "o" of my large "Joy" die.  I also wanted to use some dp as a background - I'm on a mission to try and use dp on at least two cards a month!  I have to make a dent in my stash!!

I stamped the snowman and sentiment in grey ink and did a bit of colouring with coloured pencils.  The snowman stamp includes some snowflakes around the snowman but I needed to add a bit more snow to fill in the circle so I used an old peg stamp of random dots.

I die cut the "Joy" once out of matte silver cs and once out of scrap cs and glued the two together.  I trimmed the snowman panel to fit behind the "o".  Then added the whole thing to the snowy dp background.  I went over all the snowflakes and dots with a Clear Star gelly roll pen and added some fun flock to the hat brim, pompom, and mitts' cuffs.

There's lots of other ideas from the rest of our Peace on Earth Design Team.  We'd love to see if our mood board inspires you or if you just want to do an "anything Christmas" card.

I'm also linking this card up with the Neglected Stuff Challenge as the snowman stamp is one of my very oldest stamps and hasn't been inked up for a long time.

Supplies:
Stamps - Old Island Stamp Co. snowman, Rubber Soul sentiment, Rubber Stamp Tapestry dots
Ink - Versafine Clair Morning Mist
Paper - white and matte silver cs, red dp
Size - 6x4.25"
Accessories - Penny Black "Joy" die,

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

Designer Paper Christmas and Wildflower Birthday

I'm trying to make sure I make at least two cards a month using up some of my stash of designer paper.  The latest Double D challenge is "Designer Paper" so it prompted me to get this one made.  It's also for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Red and Green".

I used some old Graphic 45 dp that has images for the 12 Days of Christmas. The 12 drummers drumming panel is mostly red and green so I added it to a card base and then to make it more interesting, I die cut the snowflake / music die in dark red (and twice more in scrap cs, so that glued together they have some substance and dimension) and also the Joy sentiment die.

Seize the Birthday wants to see "Flowers", AAA Birthday is anything birthday, and Triple B is always any combination of Birds, Blooms, Butterflies" - I've got blooms and butterflies today.

The image is stamped and watercoloured. The tiny butterflies are die cut from a scrap of smooshed cs.

 

Supplies for card 1:
Paper - cream and red cs, Graphic 45 dp
Size - 6x4.25"
Accessories - SSS Jingle Snowflakes die, Spellbinders Joy die

Supplies:
Stamps - Indigo Blu wildflowers, SU sentiment
Ink - Versafine Smokey Grey
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, SU sentiment punch, Poppy Stamps Butterfly Sprinkles dies