Twofer Balloons and Ghosted Snowflakes

I've been lying low with a nasty cold but finally today I felt more energetic and got three cards made so that I can squeak in under the wire for a couple of challenges!

First up, Darnell's Twofer Challenge - one that truly is a challenge for me!

I could only think of two stamps I have with a balloon and one of them only works for Christmas, so had to go with the other.  Here's the Twofer:

The one on the left is the full stamp - the girl and the balloon are a famous Banksy image, and are one single stamp.  I used a simple "love you" sentiment - it will be a Valentine card.

For the second card, I stamped the bear, then used just the balloon part of the Banksy image, stamping it multiple times in different colours, having all the strings converge at the bear's hand.  I coloured the bear with coloured pencils and trimmed the image with a stitched circle and used a contrasting colour for the card base.

For both cards, I popped up the focal panels on fun foam and went over the balloons with Glossy Accents.


Next up is this card:

 

Right back to my comfort zone of blue and white, and Christmas cards!!

I smooshed a piece of mixed media cs with a couple of blue Distress inks, and then laid a snowflake stencil over it and removed some of the colour with a baby wipe - the "ghosting" technique.  I added a reindeer die cut from white glitter cs and a sentiment using a Tim Holtz rub-on.  I popped the panel up on fun foam and added a few small die cut white glitter snowflakes around the card base.

It's going over to the following challenges:

CAS Christmas - Deer

CAS Stencil - Ghosting

Christmas Kickstart - Moves on Hooves

 

Thanks for hanging in for such a long post!!

Supplies for 1st card:

Stamps - Viva Las Vegas "Banksy Girl with a Balloon", PTI sentiment

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black and Rhubarb Stalk

Paper - white cs

Size - A2

Accessories - Lil Inker stitched rectangle die, Glossy Accents, fun foam

Supplies for 2nd card:

Stamps - Viva Las Vegas "Banksy Girl with a Balloon", AE bear, Lawn Fawn sentiment

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa, and various colours for the balloons

Paper - white and mottled brown/beige cs

Size - 4.75" square

Accessories - coloured pencils, Lil Inker stitched circle die, Glossy Accents, fun foam

Supplies for 3rd card:

Ink - blue Distress inks

Paper - mixed media and white cs, SU white glitter cs

Size - A2

Accessories - PaperArtsy snowflake stencil, Cheery Lynn snowflake dies, unknown reindeer die, fun foam

Faux Mother of Pearl Flower

It's "Anything Goes" at the Flower Challenge this month.

Here's my card:

I used the faux mother of pearl technique through a stencil. I started by scrunching up some cling wrap, pouncing it into some Frost White paint that I'd put on my craft mat, and then pouncing that randomly through my stencil. I washed and dried the stencil, then replaced it over the Frost White (but didn't quite get it lined up - darn). I sponged over the stencil with two shades of Distress orange inks and one green.

I trimmed the panel, bordered with green, added a brown sentiment, popped it up on fun foam, and embellished with three orange sequins.

Here's a close-up of the faux mother of pearl:

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:

Stamps - A Muse sentiment

Ink - Ranger Potting Soil, Distress Spiced Marmalade, Abandoned Coral, and Peeled Paint

Paper - white and green cs

Size - A2

Accessories - Tsukineko Frost White paint, Artplorations Happy Flowers stencil, orange sequins, fun foam

Take 3 Vintage Santas

Less is More has a fun challenge right now:

They want something where you have three of an item.  I chose to go with three inchies of vintage Santas:

I stamped them and the sentiment with a brown ink on Vintage Cream cs, bordered with a piece of homemade red paper from my stash, and mounted on the same cream cs. I made it a long narrow card as it suited the three images in a row.

I'm also entering it the Sparkles Christmas Challenge where "Vintage" is the theme for March.

Supplies:

Stamps - Darkroom Door Christmas Inchies, Penny Black sentiment

Ink - Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves

Paper - PTI Vintage Cream, handmade red paper

Size - 7"x3.5"

Reindeer Gazing on the Star of Wonder

Have you entered a card in the CAS Christmas challenge yet?  I'm hosting this month, and I chose "Deer" as the theme.

I wanted to do something quite different to the card I did for the opening of the challenge.

I started by sponging the deep blue sky, adding a bit of gold sponging in the area where the star would be giving off light.  I die cut two of the star of wonder, gluing them together to give that star more substance than the three small stars that were just single layers.

I tore two strips of white cs for snowy ground.  I stamped my sentiment on the lower one - it's actually just the first line of a longer sentiment.  I die cut the reindeer out of dark bronze shimmer cs (unfortunately it looks black in the photo) and added it to the upper strip of snow in a position where he is looking up at the star of wonder.  I put a bit of foam tape under his neck and head to emphasize him looking up.


It's CAS Christmas's first birthday, so we'd love to have you join us this month!

You have until March 24th to link up your card.  For more inspiration, head over to CAS Christmas and take a look at the cards by the rest of the Design Team and this month's Guest Designer, Chrissie (Simply One of a Kind).

Supplies:

Stamps - Serendipity sentiment

Ink - Delicata Golden Glitz, Distress Chipped Sapphire

Paper - white, gold shimmer, and dark bronze shimmer cs

Size - 6x4.25"

Accessories - Dee's Distinctively deer die, Memory Box Star of Wonder die, small star die, foam tape