The Night Before Christmas

Here's a card inspired by some challenges. The santa and verse stamps were from a magazine freebie set (years ago), the holly is an old Hero Arts stamp and I used glossy drops, glitter glue and shimmer pen.


I'd like to enter:
Case This Sketch 
Moving along with the times  night before Christmas
4 Crafty Chicks  monochrome
Addicted to Stamps  monochrome

City Crafter Challenge Blog - Where did you get that hat?

This week at City Crafter, I'm challenging you to feature a hat on your project. 

For my DT project I used a digi by Mo's Digital Pencil, which I coloured with Promarkers. The sentiment was also in the set and I noticed the little dots around the L and the S and decided to put little dots onto his clothes. Then I added snow using a stencil and white embossing powder. 

We look forward to seeing your projects for this challenge and I hope you'll go over to the blog and see what the rest of the DT have made.

I'd like to enter:

Passion for Promarkers  fave colours 

Crafty Catz  let it snow 

Happy Little Stampers christmas  stencil (snow) 

Use Your Stuff  woodgrain - hope this qualifies as it's on the logs. 

I used this sketch...

Not for the first time, I made a card specifically for a challenge and am now worried about whether it fits the challenge at all.

I used this sketch from Case this Sketch 

Well, I think it matches the sketch but...is it cas???

Anyway, it's another Christmas card to add to my stack ( must get on to writing and sending them!) .

I used Paper Artsy stamps, Distress Inks for the background and a Martha Stewart punch. 

Jolly Penguin

Last one for today .... I want to enter some challenges and some of them are coming towards the end...

Here I used a penguin stamp by Woodware,  It is quite a big stamp, so I just stamped the top half of it.

Actually this was going to be a one-layer- card but after I had stamped it and coloured it I realised I'd stamped it on the wrong side of the card base! (It was a tent fold card, so if you stood it up he'd be hanging down from the crease.)

I coloured him with Promarkers and gold Nuvo glitter pen. I also used clear shimmer pen on the white bits of his hat so it's all quite glittery. The sentiments are Mama Elephant.

I'd like to enter:
Colour Throwdown 
Just Add Ink 
CAS on Friday  Christmas
Penny Black and More  cas

Sleigh Ride

Here I've used a Santa's sleigh stamp by Penny Black, with a Stampin Up sentiment and a cityscape by Kaisercraft.

I'd like to enter:
Cardz 4 Guyz  reindeer
Penny Black Saturday - Christmas
Creative with Stamps  reindeer
Double D  santa
Deep Ocean  santa

No - Owl

I'm really building up my stack of Christmas cards now.

Here I used a NOEL stamp by Clarity, an owl stamp by My Favorite Things and a snowflake by Uniko. I coloured with Promarkers and added shimmer pen to the 'ice' and white gel pen to the scarf.

I'd like to enter:
Creative Craft Cottage  colours
Shopping Our Stash  snow much fun
Casology round
Inspired by All the Little Things  owl is wearing skates

Custom- Mix Embossing Powder

I'm a big fan of Vicki Pappaioannou, and I enjoyed her recent video using embossing powder mixes to make backgrounds. Unfortunately, Stampendous did not send me any of their embossing enamels to try, so I had to make my own. I just mixed together different embossing powders of various colours and textures. It was really fun.

For my 'young polar bear' card, the stamp is a very old one by Anita's - I shaded it with a Promarker - and the sentiment is Hero Arts.

I'd like to enter this card into:
Use Your Stuff  heat embossing
Crafters Cafe embossing
CAS Mix Up  stamping and alcohol marker and embossing powder

Here's a second card using the same powder mix. This time the image is by Magenta and the sentiment Hero Arts.

I'd like to enter:
Global Design Project Christmas Joy
Crafty Cardmakers  animals
Moving along with the times  Christmas animals
 

Elfies

Do you enjoy teasing your siblings?

My brother works for a cleaning company and I recently found out that, much to his embarrassment, the company has the word 'elves' in its name.
This one-layer Christmas card is for him.

From a Memory Box set, I stamped the frame, masked off the bottom and stamped the elf inside. I coloured it with Promarkers and green glitter pen. The sentiment is Penny Black.

Of course, now I've teased my brother, I'll have to put up with him teasing me.

I'd like to enter:
Less is More - red and green
AAA Cards Christmas
Make My Monday  happy Christmas

Inkspitational Challenges - Photo

Our challenge at Inkspirational is to be inspired by this picture:

For my DT card I was inspired by the colours and the glitter. I printed an A Day for Daisies image onto vellum, coloured with Promarkers and added some shimmer to the wings with clear shimmer pen. I added gold glitter to the heart and glittery gems. I mbossed the base card and the sentiment is Hero Arts. 

I hope you'll go over to the Inkspirational blog and see what the rest of the DT have made, then join in the challenge.

I'd like to enter:
Crafter's cafe  embossing 
Cards und More  wings 
Christmas Cards All Year Round 
Christmas Card Throwdown  previous - no red or green 

Dear Santa

Well, I know it's far from perfect but I am quite proud of the experimental stencilling I did here, using an Alte New grid stencil and two colours of ink . The girl is a My Favorite Things stamp, coloured with Promarkers , with some gold gel pen spots on the dress. Not sure who made the sentiment.

I'd like to enter:
Winter Wonderland red and green
Make My Monday  happy Christmas
Watercooler Challenges  anything goes
Fab n Funky  Christmas