Two Christmas Box Cards

 

My daughter and I fantasise about going to New York near Christmastime, for the shopping - so I made this first card for her.  I used manual dies plus stamps and markers.

I'd like to enter :

Love those Pretty Papers

Allsorts  dies

Sparkles Monthly Christmas Transport

This one was cut on a Silhouette digital cutter and I've kept largely to the design - I just changed up the colours, used patterned paper on the trees, liquid pearl snow and stamped the sentiment. 

Little Penguin

 This little MFT penguin is skipping through the dry-embossed snow, with die-cut trees and sentiment.

I'd like to enter:

Krafty Chicks cas

Cut it Up  more than one diecut 

Can You Handle the Pressure? 

Inkspirational Challenges - Stencils

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is

For my DT card I create a scene with a loose stencil background, a die cut Christmas tree and stamped streetlight, cute animals and sentiment. 

This is my last challenge with Inkspirational. After 12 years I am leaving the DT with sadness and pride - they are a wonderful team and a fantastic challenge blog - but competing priorities have meant that I haven't felt I've been 'pulling my weight' lately and so it's time to move on. 

I hope you'll go over there now and see what the DT have made and enter your own creation. 

I'd like to enter:

Stencil Fun 

My Time To Craft Christmas  lights 

Paper-pieced Cas Christmas

 Here I used an old wood- backed stamp and I paper-pieced the noel. I subtly coloured the animals and stamped a sentiment. 

I'd like to enter:

Make My Monday  cas winter 

ABC Christmas  zoo animals 

Simply Clean and Simple 

Kraft Stepper

 

Here's a simple stepper card, with little polar bears, and snow drifts made from torn paper. 

I'd like to enter:

Aud Sentiments  non trad Christmas colours/ winter 

Sisterhood of Crafters  Christmas 

Cardz 4 Guys  Christmas card 

A Happy Accident?

 

Whoops! I took the top off a mica ink spray, trying to unblock the nozzle, and managed to knock the whole thing over. Luckily, I was holding it in a cardboard box, so I grabbed some plain cardstock and mopped the spillage up. I made these two cards with it. 

For the first, I used reindeer and chimney stamps, a diecut 'noel' and wooden stars.

I'd like to enter: 

Fab n Funky - Christmas Animals 

Give a Crafter a Cookie  believe

Christmas Kickstart 

For my second card, I used an embossing folder on the card with the mopped up ink. The snowman was a free digi - I coloured his scarf with glitter pen and layered die-cut snowflakes behind. 

I'd like to enter:

Moving Along with the Times  Christmas character 

Can you handle the pressure? 

Holly

 

I made this card using a big holly stamp by Colorado Craft. I stamped it first in gold, then shifted it a bit and stamped again in black. Then I coloured it with markers. 

I'd like to enter:

Allsorts  winter flowers 

Try it On Tuesday  traditional Christmas

Bridge of Snowmen

 Here's a bridge card made with two snowmen digis - I've had them a few years and I think they were free but I can't remember where from. I paper-pieced their scarves with the reverse of the snowflake patterned paper. The speech bubble sentiments are Purple Onion. 

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Mix it Up  paper piecing 

Can't Wait

 I enjoyed making this card, even though you couldn't get more minimal! Just two stamps, a black in k pad and four marker pens - and done. 

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Shopping our Stash  masculine 

Inkspirational Challenges - Moodboard

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is

For my DT card I took inspiration from the picture at top right - a wreath (cut on my Silhouette) , with a big sentiment in the middle. I added some red gems for berries. 

Please go and look at the fantastic inspiration from the rest of the DT at Inkspirational and enter your own creation. 

I'd like to enter:

Fab n Funky  dies 

Alphabet Challenge  round 

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. 

I'd like to enter:

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.

I'd like to enter:

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! 

I'd like to enter:

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.

I'd like to enter:

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.

I'd like to enter:

Simply Clean and Simple 

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

I'd like to enter:

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. 

I'd like to enter:

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'. 

Please go and look at the fantastic inspiration from the rest of the DT at Inkspirational and enter your own creation. 

I'd like to enter:

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.

Please go and look at the fantastic inspiration from the rest of the DT at Inkspirational and enter your own creation. 

I'd like to enter:

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.

I'd like to enter:

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. 

Please go and look at the fantastic inspiration from the rest of the DT at Inkspirational and enter your own creation. 

I'd like to enter:

Fab or Funky  fur 

Sparkles Christmas