Monochrome Christmas

 

The star stamps in the Memory Box set I used for this card, are dogs, but I enjoyed using the more minor stamps for a monochrome look. 

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Crafter's Cafe

Papercraft Challenges

Little Red Wagon

Watercolour and Vellum

 

I'm really going for it this weekend, trying to catch up with making my Christmas cards. 

Here are two where I used a watercoloured background layered with some ready-made sparkly embossed vellum. 

For the first, above, I added a snowflake that I create and cut on the Silhouette. I added silver embossing powder and Frantage , with a gem in the middle and a stamped sentiment.

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Try it on Tuesday sparkle 

Moving Along with The Times  sparkle 

Sparkles Christmas  snowflakes 

For my second card I used a Pure Innocence digi and coloured it in with markers and glitter markers.  I layered the vellum and watercolour panel onto a dry embossed panel - this is very layered for me! 

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ABC Christmas  watercolouring

Cardz 4 Galz texture 

Hot Drinks

 Lots of current challenges calling for hot drinks and sweet treats, so I had to use these Clearly Besotted stamps.

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Shopping Our Stash 

Jingle Belles

Allsorts 

Merry Little Mice

 

|I made two cards using these singing mice from Waffle Flower.

The first is very cas. I stamped the mice, masked them and stamped the Joyful sentiment. Then I added a speech bubble from Purple Onion.

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Simply Clean and Simple 

My second card is a u-fold and uses patterned paper, Promarkers and a sentiment from Concord and 9th. 

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Love those Pretty Papers 

Fab and Funky  music to my ears

Chill

 

I am just so behind with my Christmas cards! 

Here I used a ski-ing penguin (MFT) and an embossing folder. 

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Can you handle the pressure? 

Inkspirational Challenges: Santa

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is:

For my DT card, I stamped a little Santa (MFT) and coloured him in . I added sparkle with glitter pens. I cut the sentiment, from embossed mirror card,  on a Silhouette and then stamped 'christmas'. 

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Die-Cut Divas  any holiday 

Inkspirational Challenges : Layer It

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is:

For my DT card I stamped the flowers and cut them out by hand. They look uncoloured, but I did actually add some pale grey shading. Then I layered them over a scrap of patterned paper. The sentiment was stamped and layered on top.

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Krafty Chicks  anything goes 

Beautiful Blossoms 

A Couple of Gate Folds

 

I made a couple of gate fold cards, using my Silhouette electronic die-cutter. For the first, I used an SVG file gate fold design, just choosing the spotted paper and embossing the flower middle. I inked the edges of the flower , which gives it more of a dimensional effect. 

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Allsorts patterned papers 

For the second card, I used the same base, but found a snowflake svg that I split into half and cut from glitter card. Then I added pearls and a stamped sentiment.

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Jingle Belles  pink

Inkspirational Challenges - Seasonal

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is:

I chose to make a Christmas card using two stamp sets : the mice and sentiments are Lawn Fawn and the bunnies are MFT. The ice has glitter pen all over it, so is much shinier in real life. 

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Fab or Funky  fur 

Sparkles Christmas 

Leaves

 I made this simple birthday card for my friend, using some wood-backed Stampin Up leaf stamps, a sentiment and some splattered ink. 

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