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