CAS Christmas and Shiny Stars with Sheep

AAA Card Challenge wants Anything CAS with an Optional Twist of Christmas and Simply Clean and Simple has an optional theme of Christmas (so of course I went with the optional twist / theme!).

I have the Tim Holtz Nordic Winter die and I like cutting it with different colours and mixing them up for different cards - which means there are always some little leftover pieces. I'm in the process of making some in rustic greens and browns and there are some leftover houses and reindeer so thought I'd turn a few of them into a CAS card.  I'll post the full versions later once I've finished inlaying all the little pieces - for an idea of what using the full die looks like, see this card I made a while ago in a totally different colour scheme.)  

I tore a strip of plain white cs for my snowy ground, stamped the sentiment on it, arranged my die cuts on it, then set it inside a pierced dot frame cut from white shimmer cs, and added it all to a white shimmer cardbase.

 
My other card for today is using the sheep in sweaters stamp that I love.  But this time I used it for the Stencil Fun Challenge's optional theme of "make it sparkle or shine" - I have surrounded the sheep with shiny stencilled stars.

I stamped the sheep and big star and coloured with coloured pencils.  I went over the stars on the sheep's sweater and the big star with a Gelly Roll clear stardust pen.  Then I laid the star stencil over the panel and sponged with Golden Glitz ink - the stars are very shiny in real life.

   

 
Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - PB sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white and navy cs; green, white, and copper shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Tim Holtz Nordic Winter die, MFT pierced rectangle frame die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Inky Doodle sheep, sentiment, and star
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Delicata Golden Glitz
Paper - white cs
Size - 5.5" square
Accessories - star stencil, coloured pencils, Gelly Roll clear star pen

Sheep in Red Sweaters

The Peace on Earth's mood boards almost always inspire me!  This time one of the images immediately made me think of my stamp of two sheep in Christmas sweaters.

A quick make - stamped and watercoloured and trimmed with a stitched rectangle before putting on the card base.  I used gold metallic paint for the star in the sky and the stars on one of the sweaters, and splattered a bit of gold paint and the grey paint I used for the ground.

Here's the Peace on Earth mood board:

Head over to Peace on Earth to see how the rest of the Design Team were inspired and then come and join us!

Supplies:
Stamps - Inky Doodles
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, off white card base
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, gold metallic paint, Lil Inkers stitched rectangle die

Sheep in Blue and Red

52 Christmas Card Throwdown wants pale blue and red, and My Time to Craft Christmas wants Christmas animals so I combined the two for this card.  I'm also entering it in Inkspirational's Christmas in July challenge.

It's a simple stamped and watercoloured image, trimmed with a stitched rectangle die, and finished off with some gold splatter and a gold border.

 

Supplies:
Stamps - Inky Doodles
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - watercolour paper, gold and cream cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die

Christmas Farm Animals

Christmas Cards All Year Round wants "Farm Animals" - I've gone with sheep.

The sheeps' sweaters are coloured with coloured pencils (including a metallic gold one for the stars on one sweater and the big star in the sky).  The small stars are stencilled with gold ink.  I used a matching gold cs for the card base.

Christmas Cards All Year Round  "Farm Animals"

Supplies:
Stamps - Inky Doodle Sheep, Great Impressions sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Delicata gold
Paper - gold shimmer and white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, metallic gold pencil, fun foam, SSS falling stars stencil

A Twofer Featuring Winter Clothes

A Christmas card Twofer today.  First up for Christmas Kickstart "Wrapped up for Christmas" (have a scarf on the card).

My background is a not very well done attempt at embossing folder stamping (mixed media cs, a snowflake embossing folder, and Distress Broken China ink). I trimmed it with a wonky stitched rectangle.

I chose this snowman stamp because he has such a wonderful large scarf.  When I stamped him, I got a big smudge of ink off to the left of him so I trimmed it down with an oval die, going right up close to the fringe of the scarf to avoid the smudge. Then I coloured his hat band and scarf with a red marker, and added some shading to him and to the ground with a blue coloured pencil that was close to the colour blue of the background. I added a small sentiment in the little space left and popped the oval up on fun foam on the background.

For the Sparkles Christmas Challenge "Warm Winter Clothes", I went with some warmly dressed sheep.

I stamped and coloured the sheep with coloured pencils, framed them with a rectangle with a die cut semi-circle opening and finished with the addition of a thin blue frame die and several glittery snowflakes.

Challenges:

Christmas Kickstart

Sparkles Christmas Challenge "Warm Winter Clothes"

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Inkadinkado snowman, SSS sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, Distress Broken China
Paper - white and mixed media cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Spellbinders oval die, red marker, blue coloured pencil, snowflake embossing folder, MFT wonky stitched rectangle die, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Inky Doodle sheep, unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white and blue cs, white glitter cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Gina Marie snowflake dies, foam tape, semicircle die, SSS thin frame rectangle die