Christmas Peace

Good Morning

Over at Christmas Challenges (with sketches) there is a fabulous sketch to follow.  Here is my card:

I created a circular card blank and then matted gold linen card and a gorgeous paper from a Do-crafts goody bag.

I used my Marianne star border die to create the panel across the centre to which I added more paper from the same goody bag.  The sentiment is also from the goody bag.

I used a Nellie Snellen starwreath die to create the circle and a Nellie Snellen oval die to create the mat for the image.  

The stamp is by Stampendous, stamped onto black card with Versamark and embossed with fine detail embossing powder.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Christmas Card Challenges - Christmas Card

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Song inspired (Away In A Manger)

Papertake Weekly - 3,2,1 - 3 stars, 2 papers, 1 image

ABC Christmas Challenge - L for Lyrics (Away In A Manger)

Don't forget my blog candy, details at the top of my blog.

Winter Fun

Good Afternoon

I'm not doing very well with my plan to get ahead with my Christmas cards so am trying to rectify that a little.

This card combines a few challenges as my mojo had gone awol and I needed all the help I could get!

This follows the current sketch over at Christmas Challenges With Sketches and I found it a lot of fun to follow.  My other aim is to use up some of the stacks of  papers I've got from various magazines, and all the papers on this card are from Making Cards magazines.  I love the paper with the santa and penguins on!  I also used some dark green cardstock which I embossed with a snowflakes embossing folder but sadly this doesn't show up very well in the photo.

The main image uses one of the SWALK Winter Cheer stamps (first inking for this stamp), stamped onto watercolour card and painted with Lyra's.  Finally, three little heart-shaped buttons, threaded with metallic cord, were added to the card.

My card is also for the following:

Winter Wonderland - A Christmas Card

Jingle Belles - Use buttons

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Hearts (the buttons)

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by.

Snow Is Falling!!

Good afternoon.

It's only snowing on my card thank goodness!  This year I am determined to make Christmas Cards throughout the year so I don't end up with the usual last minute panic.  It's far more enjoyable if there's no time pressure.  My mojo's being a bit stubborn just now, so I was glad of the help of some Christmas challenges to get me cracking.

Here is my card:

I followed the current sketch over at Christmas Challenges (with sketches).  The image is from the SWALK winters cheer range, I love this image, those hats are fab!  I coloured the image with a combination of promarkers and coloursoft pencils and added some pinflair snow dust to the fur areas.  The backing papers are also from the cd-rom.  The die the image is sat on is a Marianne designs die, cut from core'dinations cardstock and then the embossed area sanded.  The snowflakes are also Marianne dies and the edge punch is  Martha Stewart.

I made a co-ordinating insert using My Craft Studio to complete the card.

I would also like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Fussy and Fancy - Let It Snow

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Traditional plus non-traditional colours plus embossing

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Use digi image or paper (as my papers are from a cd-rom, I assume they count.

ABC Christmas Challenge - A for Anything Christmas

Truly Scrumptious Challenge - Something Forgotten - I'm ashamed to say I'd forgotten I had this die.  I'd put it away in the wrong place and completely forgot I had it.  It was a lovely surprise when I found it!!!

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jo x

Yuletide Greetings

Good Evening

I hope you've had an enjoyable weekend, my goodness have we had some rain!!  And it's been so dark and dismal all day today.

Anyway, this afternoon I got my next Christmas card made.

The reindeer on this card is from a Jayne Nestorenko stamp plate, as is the greeting.  I stamped using versafind vintage sepia onto watercolour card, and coloured using Lyra's. I just couldn't resist giving him a red nose!   I added some Pinflair snow dust to his antlers and Hunkydory 'snowdrift' around his feet.  The mat he is sat on is cut using a Nellie Snellen die and gold linen card.

All the different backing papers are from an issue of Making Cards magazine.  The poinsettias are made using my new Marianne dies which arrived yesterday.

My card is for the following challenges:

Christmas Challenges With Sketches - Sketch (I really enjoyed following this fab sketch).

Jingle Belles - Reindeer Games  - use a Christmas animal.

Winter Wonderland - Wet or dry embossing (the poinsettias are embossed).

The Crafty Pad - Christmas in July

Paper Sundaes - Christmas in July