Glittered Poinsettia

The Jingle Belles challenge is "All that Glitters" and I've used plenty of glitter on this card:

I stamped the poinsettia in black on a piece of acetate and heat embossed with clear ep.  Working on the opposite (or back) side, I added glue carefully inside the lines of the image, doing the leaves first and adding green glitter, and then doing the flower, except for its centre, and adding red glitter, and finally the centre of the flower and adding gold glitter.  I set it aside to dry for a few hours.

I dry embossed the background, created a frame to go on top of the acetate, and stamped and heat embossed a white sentiment on black cs, trimming it into a banner.  I tucked the sentiment under the frame and put everything together.

It was really hard to photograph the card to capture the sparkle of the glitter, but trust me it's there!

Supplies:

Stamps - Penny Black poinsettia, Make an Impression sentiment

Ink - ColorBox white, Versafine Onyx Black

Paper - white and black cs

Size - A2

Accessories - acetate, SU embossing folder; green, red, and gold glitter; Spellbinders rectangle die, clear and white embossing powder

Starry Twofer

Sneaking in under the wire before this month's Twofer Challenge closes!

Here's my Twofer, one for a birthday and one for Christmas:

First up is the one on the left as it's the one I did first:

I took a piece of Distress Oxide background out of my UFO box, and used my small star background die to cut the stars out of it (the die is that exact size so great for CAS cards).  I layered it over a piece of glittery gold cs.

I stamped and heat embossed a gold sentiment on white cs and then die cut part of a larger winter village die out of it.  Layered that over the starry sky and popped it up on fun foam.

And here's card number two:

For this one, I used the stars that got cut out of the Distress Oxide piece on the first card.

I stamped and heat embossed an old star stamp and a birthday sentiment, and then trimmed it with a wonky stitched die.  I glued the leftover stars around it, and popped it up on fun foam on a coloured card base.

Love not having all those pretty blue stars go to waste!!

Supplies for the Christmas card:

Stamps - SU sentiment

Ink - ColorBox gold, various Distress oxide inks

Paper - white, gold, and mixed media cs

Size - A2

Accessories - gold embossing powder, small star background die, village die, fun foam

Supplies for the Birthday card:

Stamps - SU In the Stars, SU sentiment

Ink - ColorBox Colonial Blue, various Distress oxide inks

Paper - white, blue/grey, and mixed media cs

Size - A2

Accessories - MFT Wonky Stitched rectangle die, small star background die, clear embossing powder, fun foam

Tin Tiles and Dimensional Die Cut

Sneaking in at the last minute to get a card made for CAS Mix Up.  This month the challenge is:

I created dimension for my die cut by cutting it three times and gluing them together.

The background was done for a SCS challenge (MIX317: Tin Ceilings) - to be inspired by old tin ceilings.

I took a strip of silver duct tape and stuck it to a scrap of cs, then ran it through an embossing folder.

I stamped and heat embossed a vertical sentiment on my front panel, then used a die with three square apertures and layered it over the embossed silver piece to give the impression of three square tiles.

I finished it off with the flower die - I cut it three times and glued them together for more dimension. I went over the flowers and flower buds with glue and added clear glitter to them.

Here's a photo from another angle that captures the "tin tiles" better:

For CAS Mix Up, I have stamping, die cuts, heat embossing, dry embossing, and silver foil.

Supplies:

Stamps - Technique Junkies sentiment

Ink - ColorBox silver

Paper - white cs

Size - A2

Accessories - silver duct tape, embossing folder (brand?), Memory Box Honeyblossom Sprig die, PTI Take Three die, clear glitter

Brand New Dogwood Stamp

The provincial flower for my province in Canada is the dogwood and when I saw a lovely dogwood stamp on Technique Junkie's website, I decided I had to have it.  Because it's new, it's perfect for this month's Flower Challenge:

I wanted to use a technique that I'll be leading when I get together with a group of lovely crafty women in May.  This card will be one of my samples.

I sprinkled a couple of colours of Brushos onto watercolour paper, spritzed with water, let the colours run and mingle, and then set it aside to air dry.

Next I stamped my image in archival ink.  I lifted the colour from the flowers with bleach, and then went back in with watercolour paints to add touches of colour to the flowers.  I was trying to get them close to this image of a dogwood flower, with the pink bits around the dip in the petals and the greenish centres:

I wanted to add more interest to my panel so did some stenciling with Picked Raspberry and some grey text stamping.  The panel is popped up on fun foam.

It's snowing here again - so kind of ironic to be making a card that says "happy spring"!  I think I'll go back to Christmas cards!

Supplies:

Stamps - Technique Junkies dogwood, Stampendous sentiment, unknown script stamp

Ink - Archival Jet Black, Memento London Fog, Distress Picked Raspberry

Paper - watercolour paper, white cs

Size - A2

Accessories - pink and orange Brushos, TCW stencil, bleach, watercolour paints

Monochromatic Sky with Winter Trees

There's still a bit of lingering snow so it's easy to make Christmas cards!

I pulled out a leftover snippet of shaving foam marbled background and used it as a wonderful monochromatic winter sky for my trees.  They are die cut from a snippet of white cs, as is the sentiment tag that I stamped in a dark aqua ink.  The panel with the trees is popped up on fun foam.  I went over the trees with a Quickie glue pen and added glitter to them.

Playing in three challenges with this card:

The Paper Players - Monochromatic

And 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Winter Trees

And Pixie's Snippets Playground, where you have to use up snippets of paper, ribbon, etc. - I always have plenty of those leftover!

Supplies:

Stamps - A Muse sentiment

Ink - dark aqua ink spot (unknown brand)

Paper - white cs

Size - A2

Accessories - stitched tree frame (unknown), fun foam

A New Delphinium Stamp

This month's Flower Challenge is:

One of my favourite flowers is the delphinium so when I saw this stamp by Magenta, I had to have it.  Here's the first card I made with it:

I chose to stamp it on kraft so that I could also enter it in the SCS Technique Lover's Challenge to colour an image on kraft cs.

I love the look of white heat embossing on kraft so used that for my stamp, and then coloured with Faber Castell coloured pencils. I trimmed the panel and edged it with a narrow strip of dark blue, then popped it up on fun foam for dimension.

I have a couple of other new flower stamps so hope to get another card made for this month's Flower Challenge - always good to be inspired to ink up new stamps!

Supplies:

Stamps - Magenta delphiniums, Chocolate Baroque sentiment

Ink - ColorBox white

Paper - white, kraft, and dark blue cs

Size - A2

Accessories - coloured pencils, white embossing powder, fun foam