Colourful Christmas Tree

The new Peace on Earth mood board has a lot of colourful rainbow Christmas decorations.  I was inspired by the lower left image (see the mood board at the end of my post).

I stamped the tree and then coloured the little circles in a similar colour palette to the image.  I trimmed the panel with a dotted rectangle die and added a sentiment banner across the top.  I went over the coloured dots with Glossy Accents.  

I wanted to border it with rainbow glitter cs but didn't have any left so created my own - I die cut a rectangle of cs, ran strips of double sided tape down the four edges, and sprinkled with JoAnn's multi-coloured glitter.  It's a bit chunky so it left sticky bits of the tape exposed so I took a fine clear glitter and added it over the coloured glitter to fill in all the sticky bits of tape.

We'd love you to check out the rest of the inspiration from our Peace on Earth Design Team, and if you're inspired by our mood board, or prefer to make an anything Christmas card, we'd love to have you join us.

I'm also adding it to the Christmas Cards All Year Round "Trees" challenge.

Supplies:
Stamps - Lavinia Christmas tree, unknown sentiment
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - alcohol markers, Sizzix Dotted Rectangle die, banner die, Spellbinders rectangle die, double-sided tape, JoAnn's multi-coloured chunky glitter, MS fine clear glitter, Glossy Accents

A Rainbow of Spaniels and Santa Hats

It's time to remind you about April's CAS Christmas challenge, "Rainbow".  I've done a rainbow of spaniels wearing Santa hats.

English Cocker spaniels come in a huge range of colours - 23 different colours or colour mixes in fact!!  I've had three different ones - a blue roan, a liver roan, and my present sweet Tessa who is orange roan.  So I coloured the dogs on my card in a variety of colours.

And for the rainbow challenge, I did their hats and little gifts in the traditional rainbow of colours.  And then added those colours below them to ground them.

A simple sentiment and a black border, a bit of fun foam to add dimension, and the card was done.

Please come and join us with your Christmas card using "rainbow" as the theme - you have until April 24th to link up.  There is more inspiration from the Design Team over at CAS Christmas.

I'm also linking up with:

Day of the Month Card Club's challenge "Find a Rainbow Day".

Penny Black Saturday Challenge "Cute".

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white and black cs
Size - 6.25x3.25" mini slimline
Accessories - coloured pencils, fun foam

A Subtle Rainbow

It's time for the April CAS Christmas challenge and this month's host, Trina, wants to see rainbows on our cards.   I created a rainbow of Christmas lights on a tree.

After stamping the tree, I coloured all the lights with coloured pencils, trying to create a rainbow of them with red ones all around the most outer edges, then a curve of orange ones, etc. going down to the violet ones closest to the trunk.  

Here's a close-up that hopefully shows the rainbow of colours better:

I added drops of Crystal Glaze to each light.  I thought "joy" was a fitting sentiment as I find the rainbow of colours very joyful.

Check out the inspiration on how to use rainbows on Christmas cards at CAS Christmas where there are wonderful cards by the Design Team and this month's fabulous Guest Designer, Izzy (Izzy Scrap blog).  Please join us with your clean and simple Christmas cards featuring a rainbow of some sort.

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black "Twinkling" tree, Stampendous sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Nuvo Crystal Glaze

Keep on Playing

I'm a sucker for great sentiment stamps.  And I'm ashamed to say I have too many of them, and many of them have yet to be inked up.

So Darnell's NBUS Challenge (Never Before Used Stuff) is the perfect prompt to get one out.  I love  what this Tim Holtz sentiment says - and I'm inclined to agree with it!

This week's SCS CAS Challenge is Sunshine or Rainbows.  I went with a rainbow as I thought the sentiment would look great against all those bright playful colours.

I made my rainbow with simple swipes of copic markers. Then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on top of the rainbow. Bordered with black cs and added a rainbow of little flower sequins.

Supplies:

Stamps - Tim Holtz sentiment

Ink - Versafine Onyx Black

Paper - white and black cs

Size - A2

Accessories - copic markers, clear embossing powder, flower sequins

A Rainbow of Medieval Houses

When I first saw the Merry Monday challenge "Colours of the Rainbow", I was stumped.  Then I had three ideas all at the same time.  I posted one yesterday and am posting another today.  The third idea won't be made in time for the challenge.

For this one, I thought of a stamp I have of Santa flying over a row of medieval houses.  Then I remembered my trip to Copenhagen where I loved seeing all the tall narrow houses in different colours.  So here's what I came up with:

I used coloured pencils to make my rainbow of houses, went over the stars with my Stardust gel pen, and coloured in the moon with Wink of Stella.  A simple black border and a star embossed background finished it off.

Here's a photo of my inspiration, taken on my trip to Copenhagen a few years ago:

It's a beautiful city if you ever the chance to visit it!

Supplies:

Stamps: Crafty Individuals

Paper: white and black cs

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: coloured pencils, Stardust gel pen, Wink of Stella, Crafts Too embossing folder, foam tape