Merry Christmas

Hello

I've another Christmas card to share with you today, made to meet the criteria for a few different challenges:

I created a stepper card for this card.

Red and silver mirror card was used for all the matting and layering.

The three small pictures are attached to the card using strip of acetate to make them 'boing'

I used a Martha Stewart punch to create the snowflake which were then stuck at randon to the card.

I used a corner rounder punch throughout.

My card is for the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - Lots of layers

Pile It On  - Use patterned paper

My Time To Craft Challenge - More than 1 fold but no easel cards

Paper Pretties Challenge - Use punches

Jingle Belles - Going postal

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.

Christmas Penguins

Good Morning

I am determined to work my way through my un-inked stamps, and here is another that has been used for the first time:

I love this stamp and it was a lot of fun to colour in.  I'm sure I'll use this much more.  I coloured the image using coloursoft pencils blended with baby oil.

I followed the sketch over at Jingle Belles.  The backing paper came free in a magazine.  The ribbon was saved from a Christmas Cake!  I can't resist but keep all bits of ribbon and twine from wrapping, it's such a waste just to throw them away.  The border is cut with a Memory box die and the other die cuts are spellbinders.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Christmas Card Challenges - Colour

Sentimental Sundays - Die-cut plus sentiment

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Colour Bingo - I chose green/red/yellow

St Lukes Charity Cards Challenge - Recycling (ribbon from Christmas cake)

Dream Valley Challenges - Animals

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Thanks for calling!

Jo x

Let It Snow

Good Afternoon

Well today I finally got a chance to play with the fabulous new SWALK range from Crafters Companion.  This is my favourite image from the Winter Cheer range.

I stamped the image onto watercolour card using versafine ink.  I then watercoloured her using brushmarkers. I found some fab holographic card in my stash out of which I cut a frame using a spellbinders die.  I used an ironworks die to cut the fabulous snowflake out of silver glitter card, and used the same card to die cut the bauble using a Marianne die.  The gorgeous backing papers, borders and flower are all printed from the accompanying cd-rom.  The sentiment is LOTV embossed with silver detail embossing powder.

I used the remainder of the printed papers on the inside of my card:

My card is for the following challenges:

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Pink and Green

Willow Sketchie Challenge  - Sketch

Jingle Belles - Softly falling snow

Totally Papercrafts - Lots of layers

The Secret Crafter - Wrap up warm

Paper Sundaes - Flowers and sparkle

Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Christmas Songs (Let It Snow)

Now then, which image shall I play with next????

Have a lovely evening.

Jo x

Sparkling Snowflakes

Good Evening

Here is another Christmas Card I've made today:

Unfortunately, it's not an easy card to photograph, in real life it's lovely and sparkly.

The base card using a lovely platimum pearlescent card I got from papermill.  The snowflake is made from pearlescent paper using spellbinders dies, layered up and glittered with sparkling snow glitter.  The border is made from that same paper, edge punched with a Martha Stewart snowflake punch.  The sentiment is stamped in versamark and heat embossed using silver detail embossing powder.  The bottom edge of the card is cut using some fancy-edged scissors and then a couple of embossed lines added.

My card is for the following challenges:

Card and a Half - Fussy Cutting

Less Is More - Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash - No Colouring Allowed

Jingles Belles - Here Comes Suzy Snowflake

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - Christmas Wishes

Sentimental Sunday  - Monochromatic

Thanks for stopping by.  Please let me know what you think.

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