As You Like It - gold

I designed this card for the As You like it challenge this week, because I like gold. I think gold and white have such an elegant look as a color combo. This is a Spellbinder die set mounted on a white with gold dotted paper. The card base is kraft.

The details for the challenge can be found here:

https://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/11/favourite-gold-silver-or-glitter-and-why.html
 

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

 

Creative Knockout challenge 515

I wanted to try out one of my newest stencils from A Colorful Life using blue, green, and purple distress oxide inks, I used a Spellbinder die for the flowers and purple panel. The centers of the flowers are green sticker dots.  You can check out the details for this challenge here:

https://creativeknockouts.blogspot.com/2024/02/515-die-cutspunchesstencils.html

The sentiment says: Be Grateful.

 

Jingle Belle Blog banner challenge

The challenge for the Jingle Belles this week was to use their blog banner as a source of inspiration. So I was inspired by the pink, the trees, and the sparkle on the trees. I stenciled a triangular pattern onto some printed design paper. I added this white silhouette of a tree and some forest animals as the main focus, and added pearls as snowflakes. I added some sparkly Nuvo to the tree to add a little glisten. I decided I would use pink ink on the sentiment as well. You can find the Jingle Belle challenge linky here:

https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-blog-header-christmas.html

I am seriously card making now for the rest of my Christmas cards. I try to do these challenges and others during to year to keep me with a pretty good stash to begin with but now it will be strictly Christmas cards that I will be creating. 

 

TicTacToe Challenge #231

Using a wonderful Spellbinder new Christmas die set for this cute card, I decided to enter it in the Tic Tac Toe #231 Challenge this week. I used the middle horizonal line: lace, gingerbread, and gingham. The sweet little gingerbread man is tucked into this fabulous stocking. This is a 5 by 7 card. I am glad to be getting an early start on some of my Christmas cards this year. The lace is gold foil paper cut with a Sizzix die. 

 

                                https://tictactoechallenge.com/tttc231-featured-designer-jeanne/

CCEE2230 Butterflies

  Hi Crafty Friends,

It's a brand new month which means a new challenge hostess, this time round  (Frances Byrne) is issuing the challenges.

Butterflies seem to be very popular right now, many companies have released products featuring them this year. Create a card that features one or more butterflies.

Let's take a look at what the Design Team have created this week ...

I used a mixture of distress oxide inks as a smash ink background, then die cut this white panel to lay on top of it, letting the colors peek through the holes. I punched out these butterflies with a Martha Stewart paper punch, and added tiny Creative Memory mini flowers from a mini punch.  I added sparkle gel pen to the butterfly wings and centers to the flowers. The sentiment says: live gently upon this earth, which is from a Tim Holtz Idea-o-logy sentiment pad. 

Double Trouble challenges and Christmas in July

 

Getting some Christmas cards done in July puts me ahead of the game in December, so this is one of the many cards Christmas themed cards I have gotten made this week, taking this Double Trouble challenge that paired with the Jingle Belles Challenge as well as some of the Dirty Girl challenges this past week on Splitcoaststampers.  You can find the links to all of these here:

https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2022/07/challenge-116-christmas-in-july.html

http://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2022/07/double-trouble-crossover-challenge.html

https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/dare-get-dirty-150/

I used red cardstock, silver chrome paper for the ornament die from Spellbinder with gold chrome for the hangers. I used Sizzix holly die and red gemstones for my berried.  This is a slimline card.