Christmas Card Challenge #48 - Anything Goes

Hi friends!  Have you started your holiday cards yet?  Better get going if not...it'll be here before you know it!

 

The Christmas Card Challenge blog has an Anything Goes challenge this week, so you can create any holiday card you'd like.  I pulled out some new products to use on my card this week.  I first die cut the white piece and adhered it to a light blue piece of cardstock.  The poinsettia is a three-step stamp.  The sentiment was die cut from white and green cardstock.  For the middle of the poinsettia, I made my own gold paper by putting some Versamark on some scrap paper then embossing it with gold ep.  I added some Wink of Stella shimmer on the flower.

 

You can see more inspiration from the DT on the Christmas Card Challenge blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Painted Poinsettia (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white, soft sky, wild wasabi

Ink:  Versamark, regal rose, riding hood red, wild wasabi, garden green

Accessories:  Snowflakes fusion cover plate (MFT), painted poinsettia die (PTI), holiday double cuts dies (PTI), gold embossing powder, Wink of Stella shimmer, dimensionals

 





Just Us Girls #264 - Photo Week

Hi everyone!  I'm a little late getting my post up this morning for the Just Us Girls challenge.  Maria chose this fabulous picture for our photo challenge.

 

Here's a close-up of the photo so you can see more details.

 

I've had this stamp for about two years and it's never seen ink.  I saw it at my LSS when I was there with my friend and fellow JUGs teammate Cheryl.  It's from Northwoods and they have the most amazing boards to show the use of the stamps.  They are so bright and glittery and we just can't figure out how they get them that way!  I don't know if I've done it justice, but I was pressed for time!  I colored the pumpkin with copics and added some Wink of Stella shimmer over the top.  I cut it out and mounted it on an angled piece of gray cardstock.  I stamped the sentiment in Versamark and heat embossed it with white powder.  Then I mounted the main piece on top with dimensional tape.  The black piece looked bare, so I added the stitching and the enamel dots.

 

You can see more from the JUGs DT on the blogs below.  We'd also like to thank Wanda Cullen for being a great guest this week!

 

JUGs blog

Cheryl Rowley

Chris Dring

Ina Grehan

Maria Levine

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Pumpkin (Northwoods), Mr. Bones (PTI)

Paper:  X-Press It Blending Card, black, gray, pumpkin pie

Ink:  Versamark, Memento tuxedo black, copics

Accessories:  Tipped tops die (PTI), Wink of Stella shimmer, enamel dots, white ep, dimensional tape



Christmas Card Challenge - Photo Inspiration

Hi friends!  The Christmas Card Challenge has a great photo inspiration for you this week!  Just take a look at this great snowman snow globe!  I love them!  I also just love the background of this photo...my inspiration!

I just watched a video from Kristina Werner where she created a background similar to this (hers was a bit better than mine!).  I used three different blue distress inks and a black one to create this night sky.  The stars/falling snow was created with a white pen.  This is actually a shaker card and that snowman is from a set my friend Diane Zechman designed for Sweet and Sassy stamps.  So cute!  I colored him with copic markers.  

You can see more from the design team on the Christmas Card Challenge blog.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Recipe
Stamps:  Snowy Hello (Sweet and Sassy Stamps), Sentimental Christmas (Flourishes)
Paper: X-Press It Blending Card, Recollections white
Ink:  Tumbled glass, broken china, chipped sapphire, black soot (Distress Inks),Versamark, copic markers
Accessories:  Circle nesties, dimensionals, white gel pen, transparency, white embossing powder, sequins (PTI)

Just Us Girls #263 - Color Week

Hi everyone!  I'm the hostess this week over at Just Us Girls and I've got an interesting color combo for our Color Week.  I hope you like it!

 

I've been enamored with Kristina Werner's colorful backgrounds lately.  (You'll see another one tomorrow!)  I used distress inks and a blender tool to achieve the background.  I then die cut the ghosts.  The large one is on a wobble, and they are covered with Wink of Stella shimmer.  I die cut the word from black and white card stock and stacked them.  The black alone got lost on the dark background, so I add the white behind it and it solved the problem.  I then added some Wink of Stella shimmer on it and topped it off with Glossy Accents.  A white gel pen created the stars (too many I think!).  Since the ghosts had stitched edges, I added the white stitching around the perimeter of the scene. 

  

You can see more on these blogs from our DT and our October guest designer.

 

JUGs blog

Cheryl Rowley

Chris Dring

Ina Grehan

Maria Levine

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Boo and Faces (Lil' Inkers)

Paper:  Recollections white, black

Ink:  Pealed paint, dusty concord, chipped sapphire distress inks, Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Stitched ghosts die and Spooky die (Lil' Inkers), wobbler, signo white gel pen, glossy accents, Wink of Stella shimmer