Adding the Sparkle to Christmas

Since I am sending out over 100 cards this year, I work on my Christmas stash all year long. I seldom may any duplicates, they are all one of a kind originals. I had a great time with this new stencil I got from Gina K designs. I stenciled with aqua distressed ink on light blue cardstock, and the moved the stencil ever so slightly and used texture paste over the stencil on the second layer. I loved the dimentional look that resulted. Before the paste was dried, I added some very fine white glitter from Martha Stewart over the texture the paste layer made. I used this fabulous nativity die from Spellbinders for the focal point of the card. I am entering this card in two challenges this month that have sparkles as the themes. These two challenges are:

Crazy is our Fame and Stenciling our game and the Christmas Card Throwdown challenge.

You can find the details for these challenges here:

https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2024/11/november-2024-stencil-fun-challenge.html

and

https://52cct.blogspot.com/2024/11/november-theme-challenge.html

 

Inspired by ....mushrooms

I did this card for the Inspired by.....Mushrooms challenge this week. The stamp I used was from Inkadinkado (but not sure). The sentiment is from Tim Holtz Ideology sentiment strips. I used colored pencils to color this image and design papers from DCWV. 

You can find the details for the challenge here:

https://theseinspiredchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/11/inspired-by-mushrooms.html

 

Cardz 4 galz Challenge -highlighting design paper

I found this pretty tablet of paper from DCWV in my paper stash, so decided this was the perfect challenge to make use of it. I cut the leaves from design paper as well. The sentiments are Tim Holtz ideology sentiment strips.  You can find the details for this challenge here:

https://cardz4galz.blogspot.com/2024/10/237-showcase-your-patterned-paper.html

 

As you See it 335

Following the recipe for the As You See it challenge, I made this carding a sentiment stamp from Stampin' Up, a stencil from Gina K designs that I doodled over with aa fine black sharpie. I embossed some gold chrome cardstock with a 3-D Sizzix embossing folde and die cut a tag and added this rose iimage from Stampablities.  I used copic markers for coloring the roses and vesafine clair black for stamping the sentiment. I die on an organdy rribbon to the tag. Pink and burnt orange were my warm colors and the card base is a light pink. I used pink distress oxide ink for the stenciling. 

You can find the details of the challenge here:

https://www.asyouseeitchallenge.com/2024/10/335.html

 

Daring Cardmakers - Art for Art's sake

This is one of my newest stamps I have ordered during the Impression Obsessions Big sale this month.

It was fun to get to make a card with it. I used distress oxide inks for the sploshes and splatters. I used versafine clair black ink for the images and sentiment. I colored the brush and tube of paint with alcohol markers.  The theme for this Daring Cardmaker challenge is Art for Art's Sake. You can find the details here: 

https://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/2024/10/art-for-arts-sake.html

 

CAS on Friday 295

I used one of my most recently purchased stencils from Impression Obsessions. The sentiment is also from Impression Obsessions.  I used distress oxide inks for the stenciling and versafine clair black for the sentiment. I made this card using the criteria for the CAS on Friday challenge today.  You can find the details here on the blogsite:

 

 https://cleanandsimpleonsunday.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-295-use-corner-of-your-card.html

BYSHcardmakers Linky party 2024

 

Love using scraps to make cards, and thought this big pretty bow die from Greetery on this card. 

The scraps were various plaid and stripes from various design paper companies. I am not sure of the source of the sentment. 

https://byshcardmakers.blogspot.com/2024/10/falling-for-holidays-2024-byshc-linky.html