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. 

 

Alphabet Challenge - Q quadruple

I made this card for two challenges. One was the Alphabet challenge for Q-quadruple, and the Free for all challege on SCS using the theme "seeing blue." You can find the details for the Alphabet challenge here:

https://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/q-is-for-quadruple-shapes-or-images.html

and the Free for all challenge on Splitcoaststampers can be found here:

https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/free-all-45/f4a718-seeing-blue-%7B11-24-23%7D-645765/

The snowman stamp is from Rubbernecker, and the sentiment and patterned paper are from Unity.

 

Can You Handle the Pressure? embossing and Thanksgiving

I used a 3-D Spellbinder embossing folder on this blushing bride paper card base. The image is from aa Sweet and Sassy Digital stamp on white paper. I colored it with pastel Copic markers. The sentiment is stamped with Versafine Clair Black ink using a Stampendous sentiment.  I am planning mailing it to a friend for Thanksgiving!  I used it for the Inspiration Challenge on Splitcoaststampers on Sunday, and for the Can you Handle the Pressure challenge for their Thanksgiving theme.  You can check out the Can You Handle the Pressure challenge here:

https://cyhtp.blogspot.com/

 

C.R.A.F.T. challenge #697

My sweet little great great nephew turned 1 this week, so I made this card for him. I am entering it in the  C.R.A.F.T. challenge #697 to make a card for a child. The space suit is a stamp from Deep Red and the birthday sentiment is from Stampendous. I free handed the cutting of the big number one! He is the first of the newest generation of our family, so I refer to  him inside the card as Commander Beckett, the one in charge of the next generation. 

You can find the details and link to the C.R.A.F.T. challenge here:

https://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/11/challenge-697-for-child-children.html

 

Crazy is our fame Stenciling is our game - Leaves

Over the past few years I have really enjoyed getting into stenciling and collecting them. I know the stencil I used for the brown leaves is from A colorful Life. I am not sure of the source of the other leaf stencil. I used fall colors from my collection of Distress Oxide inks. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.  I followed the theme of the Crazy is our fame, Stenciling is our Game that can be found here:

                    https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2023/11/november-stencil-fun.html
 

Crafty Rocket Challenge - Winter time (No Christmas)

                                   

I used design papers on the background for this card. The silhouette die is from Impression Obsessions. The sentiment is from Unity. I really liked this gray, red, black and white color scheme. I made it a winter theme rather than Christmas for the Crafty Rocket challenge theme.  You can read the details of the challenge on their blog found here:

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/11/challenge-109-wintertime-no-christmas.html

As You Like It - modern or traditional Christmas colors

 I made this card in traditional Christmas colors for the As You Like It challenge this week. I love thee red and green of Christmas and wanted to use white with this as my neutral color. I live on the Texas Gulf coast, so I have only seen one white Christmas in my lifetime, but I do love seeing the snowy scenes on Christmas cards.  I used white to remind me of wintery snow, the red reminds me of the cardinals seen in the winter, and green reminds me of the evergreen trees of the season. I used design paper of red with white snowflakes on it for thee background panel of this card. I added little green holly leaves in addition to the die I used for the design. Silver gemstones I added for additional embellishments.  You can find the details and linky for this challenge here:

https://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/11/favourite-christmas-colours-modern-or.html