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'. 

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

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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.

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

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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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Inkspirational Challenges - Moodboard

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is:

As you can see, I was inspired by the colours and autumnal feel of the mood board and I stamped two Inky Doodles pumpkins, coloure them with Promarkers and added a touch of glitter. 

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Aloha Friday   pumpkins

Moving Along with the Times  autumnal colours 

Inkspirational Challenges - Headwear

 Our new challenge at Inkspirational is:

Sometimes I ponder on our challenges for weeks, but this time I thought - I'm just going to use an image with someone wearing a hat! I found this image in my bits bag - I honestly can't remember whether it's a printed digi or something I (or someone else) has previously stamped. I coloured her with Promarkers and cut her out and used die cut trees and patterned paper for the background. (There's also some glittery highlights but they don't show up in the photo.)

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I Spy with my Little Eye magical 

Cardz4Galz any colouring medium

Peace on Earth 

Lighthouse Birthday

 Here's a 70th birthday card that I designed and cut on my Silhouette cameo.The lighthouse was an svg file that I adapted to try to make it look like our local lighthouse, Beachy Head. I chose black and white for the numbers etc to reflect the birthday boys home city football colours. ( I have no idea why the lighthouse looks like it's leaning in the picture! It's fully upright on the actual card.) 

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Cardz4Guyz nautical

Daisy Chain more than one fold

Sympathy Bouquet

 Here's a sympathy card that I, sadly, had to make, using the same stamp set that I used to create the card I posted yesterday as my Inkspirational DT make. 

This time, I stamped it onto a stitched die-cut panel, and coloured it with Promarkers, in very pale, neutral colours. 

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Little Red Wagon - Sympathy 

Triple B 

Inkspirational Challenges - Make Your Mark

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is: 

which means using markers/ paint/ ink/ pencil on your creation.

For my DT card I coloured these flowers a (probably unrealistic) blue , using Zig Clean Color markers and water. 

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Beautiful Blossoms

Inkspirational Challenges : CAS - optional twist: animal

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is: 

with the optional twist of: Animal.

For my DT card, I went with the optional twist and made a birthday card with a rhino, a balloon and a big sentiment, all in grey and khaki on white. Actually, there was no big plan here! All except the balloon were already stamped/ cut and just hanging around waiting to be used and I was happy with how they looked together, 

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

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Krafty Chicks all occasions

Simply Clean and Simple off-centre

Let's Create Challenges grey with one other colour

Papercraft Challenges polkadots

Little Red Wagon  neutrals 

Snowman in Purples

 

Another unplanned card that I had fun making and then, afterwards, asked myself: "is it weird?"

I made the background with a round circle stencil and a grid stencil layered over and thought it would look good with the Paper Smooches snowman.  Then, as it's a snowman, I added white gel pen snow. So basically, a snowman is standing in front of some mesh which matches his outfit...  I must tell myself: Don't overthink it! 

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Stencil Fun  anything goes option

Krafty Chicks  cas