Plaid Reminder

It's mid month so time to remind you that you only have until September 24th to enter CAS Christmas's "Plaid" challenge.

I made two cards using some plaid dp scraps from a small pad of Christmas dp.  The pad also had a blue snowflake dp that looked good with the plaid.

The first one has a snowflake embossed background, die cut squares of the dp with two corners rounded (using a corner rounder punch), a Tim Holtz die cut sentiment mounted on a scrap of purple cs, and a scattering of die cut snowflakes.

The second one has three banners cut from the dp, with the sentiment stamped and heat embossed in white on the middle banner, and a stamped and die cut mug and its accompanying steam.

Please come and join us at CAS Christmas with your clean and simple card featuring some plaid.  There's more inspiration from the rest of the Design Team.

Since I used up lots of snippets (scraps of dp and of purple and white cs), I'm also linking up with the Pixie's Snippets Playground challenge.

Supplies:
Stamps - SU mug and steam, PB sentiment
Ink - ColorBox white and blue
Paper - white cs, scraps of dp, scrap of purple cs
Size - 4.75" square and A2
Accessories - snowflake embossing folder, Spellbinders small square die, corner rounder punch, TH snow circle sentiment die, various small snowflake dies, SU mug and steam dies, white embossing powder,

Turquoise Background

The Flower Challenge is asking for turquoise this month.

I created a turquoise background with a bit of orange in it as those are one of my good friend's favourite colours and I'm a bit late getting a birthday card in the mail for her.

The background was made on a gelli plate with acrylic paints and a coffee rings stencil (the coffee rings are there but they are quite faint).

When dry, I added some script stencilling with embossing paste. And added a die cut white flower and a stamped sentiment on a banner.

The Flower Challenge

Supplies:
Stamps - SU sentiment
Ink - Memento Potters Clay
Paper - white and mixed media cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - various blue and orange acrylic paints, coffee rings stencil, script stencil, embossing paste, Memory Box Honeyblossoms Sprig die

A Snowglobe for Jingle Belles

The Jingle Belles challenge inspired this card:

I was inspired by the snowglobes, the dark pastel colours, and the coloured background from their inspiration image:

But I had to go with blue rather than their purple as I'm really not a purple person (but love blue and white for Christmas cards).

I used my new Taylored Expressions stamp / die combo.  I stamped it in black and die cut it, and also die cut two others without stamping to stack up behind it. I glued acetate between the top two layers.

On the small centre piece that got cut out of the die, I stamped and heat embossed the cabin. Then sponged bright blue for the sky and very light blue for the snowy ground. I added glitter to the trees and roof, and sprinkled a bit of extra glitter over the acetate.

I glued everything to a background of snowy dp and then mounted on a white cardbase.

I've been thinking of lots of my stamps that would work really well for the interior image of the snowglobe so might make a few more.

 

Supplies:
Stamps - SU Cozy Christmas cabin, Taylored Expressions snowglobe, unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, various Distress blues
Paper - white cs, unknown dp
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Taylored Expressions snowglobe die, clear embossing powder, glitter, scrap of acetate

Christmas Cracker Plaid

Can you believe it's already September?!!  Where has the summer gone?  

I'm here to inspire you to get going on those Christmas cards.  The CAS Christmas challenge is hosted by Colleen this month and she is asking for "Plaid".

I had saved a few pieces of plaid foil that were the wrappers around Christmas crackers and I used that for my background.  Forgive the dreadful photo - I had a terrible time photographing it as the foil either went totally black or bounced off way too much light.

 

It's definitely a CAS card!  Stamped and heat embossed tree and sentiment (using the new Distress Oxide Rustic Wilderness - a great Christmas green), popped up on fun foam on the plaid, and embellished with three little stick-on stars.  It took far longer to photograph it than to make it!  I might use up the rest of the foil plaid and make a few more as it was so quick, and in real life, looks better than in the photo.

 

So please come and join us at CAS Christmas.  You have until September 24th to link up.  There's lots of inspiration from the Design Team and this month's wonderful Guest Designer, Melanie.

 

 

Supplies:
Stamps - SU tree, Rosie's Roadshow sentiment
Ink - Distress Oxide Rustic Wilderness
Paper - cream cs, plaid foil from a Christmas cracker
Size - 6.25x4.25"
Accessories - clear embossing powder, fun foam, stick-on gold stars

Black and Silver Christmas

Two Christmas cards totally out of my Christmas colour comfort zone!

I stamped the snowglobe and the accompanying medieval town in black, bordered with silver mirri cs, and went over the snowflakes and some of the dots with a Stardust gel pen, and added silver ball embellishments to the centres of the snowflakes.

And the second card, inspired by my friend Loll:

On a piece of black cs, I used silver glitter paste through a branch of berries and leaves. I bordered with silver glitter cs and added a die cut sentiment from the same glitter cs.

The first card is going to The Paper Players Tic Tac Toe challenge - I chose the right vertical column - "square card, masculine, neutrals".

 

And to Jingle Belles - I was inspired by their image to use a snowglobe stamp:

The second card is going to 52 Christmas Card Throwdown:

 

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - IndigoBlu
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white cs, silver mirri cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Stardust gel pen, silver ball embellishments, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Paper - white and black cs, silver glitter cs
Size - A2
Accessories - unknown stencil, TH joy die, silver glitter paste

Floral Birthday

A birthday card for a dear friend:

 

 

I coloured the image with my new Cosmic Shimmer Botanical Stains - love the colours of them!  I added a bit of splatter and a few sequins, and, for a change from my usual cream or white, I used a dark coloured card base.

 

It's for The Paper Players Tic Tac Toe challenge.   I chose the left hand column - feminine, birthday, florals.

Supplies:
Stamps - Altenew Charmed flowers, unknown sentiment
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - watercolour and dark green cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Cosmic Shimmer Botanical Stains, sequins, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die, fun foam