SOS538 – Superstars and 9th Birthday/Anniversary Challenge At Double D is where this creation will be posted. SOS wants stars on a project and DD is celebrating a 9th Birthday bash. The pop up word die is a new one (to me) from Gemini/Crafters Companion. It came as a freebie in my recent kit trial period. Even with the instructions I found it a bit challenging initially and my first attempt isn’t right at all. Rather than waste the PP, I cut around the words where they would normally be folded for the pop up, and added them to the card front. Then I used some previously cut (Hero Arts Infinity dies) stars and painted them with a silver pen. As I needed a few more than I had, I cut them using up silver scraps. I added some glitter here and there on both the background and on the words. Doing this distracts the eyes from a couple of small blotches I accidentally made when I dropped my pen. At the moment my right thumb is refusing to hold a pen properly. It would be funny if it wasn’t so painful. I shall be trying this die again after I’ve watched a couple of tutorials so I can get it right next time.

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The latest challenge and the first one for 2025 at: Word Power January 2025 Challenge. I’ve not entered much into this challenge, but decided it was time I did so. Between Christmas and new year I had to go to an art store to replace a Sakura pen that had run out. It is something I use a lot so a necessary purchase. Of course I can’t be in an art store without checking out other stuff and I came across this die by Sizzix Tim Holtz that was on sale. Rather than just leave it sitting on my desk, as I sometimes do with new stuff, I decided to try it out immediately so I used some silver CS and this is result. I added it to some shimmer CS so it all looks a bit silvery. Then I found the shadow and matching die from Pink and Main and the second one is from Creative Expressions. I cut both shadows out of black scraps and used silver glitter CS for the actual words. As these words take center stage on this card it fits well into the Word Power challenge.

Although the lace is busy it looks pretty good and the words just fit nicely on top without hiding the background. My goal this year to to use most of my supplies especially some of the new items. I joined a kit club on a trial basis for a local craft store I used to patronize a lot when living on the mainland. They were offering a 3 month supply of kits from Crafters Companion at a very reasonable price. As yet I haven’t done one single project with these kits but I have opened them and I like the included products. I will begin using them pretty soon and we will see what I come up with. I didn’t continue with more than the trial offer, basically because I hadn’t even begun to use the 3 that I now have.

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SSC350 Circlin’ Around is the current challenge at Sunday Stamps. As I’m still using up different scraps sitting around in an effort to clean up my craft room, I decided to use these leftover circles cut with Hero Arts infinity dies. Using Distress Oxide Speckled egg ink I added the colour then I carefully added Versamark ink on top and used Ultra thick embossing powder in several layers, after which I used a glitter EB powder which sank into the glossy layer as it melted, to look as you see it here. I was quite happy with how these looked when done, but I’m wearing the glitter and my floor is also wearing it. I guess that is why I don’t use this system much, lol. On another piece of CS, I sprayed 3 different colours of Mica spray all over it and when dry used some Spellbinders feather dies. These were added to the circles using foam tape and the circles also had foam tape added to the backs to lift them up from the background layer. The PP is from both a paper pad and Crafters Companion, the sentiment is from Kokorosa. In my last post I said YNS, but I had it wrong. Once it was all assembled I quite liked the end result and it is very sparkly and shiny in R.L. Hubby likes it too.

Thanks for stopping by. My day is coming to a close and I shall be preparing a meal soon so this is my last post for today. I took a minute to vacuum my floor, which looks better, but is still glittery in places.

This card has been on my desk for weeks waiting to be posted. I’m not sure why I didn’t post it before now. I embossed the card front using a folder from Concept Crafts and then added the rest on top. The inked background was done with alcohol inks on mineral paper and it was added to the gold background. The heart was a scrap piece from another project and was cut using Hero Arts infinity dies. The flower is another scrap piece and the dots are from the bits of leftover inked paper. Sentiment is from a YNS set. I used some foam tape to pop the heart up at the top.

I’m entering this card at CYHTP which is an anything goes challenge.

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This card has been made for some friends who adore cats and they’ve taken in a couple of strays along side their own cat. Stamp sets are from Hero Arts and GKD. The Hero Arts set came with matching dies but the packages were fussy cut. I stamped the tree and then coloured in the baubles with glitter pens. The chair image in the background and the packages were done with pencils. The cat on the parcel was done with pencils and then die cut. My original idea was to build the scene using masks, but that is more time consuming and I was feeling a bit lazy, so I used the dies to make my life easier. It was completed a couple of days ago and I’m basically done with making Christmas cards. However I was looking through challenges and realized this would fit into the DD challenge –CHRISTMAS TREES so decided to post it. I also just realized that I forgot to take photos of some of the cards that are now in envelopes ready to go, so even though I know there are others that would work for challenges, it is too late for me to add them.

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I think this is my last Christmas card except for the wintery ones needed as thank you’s. My original intention was to use this one as a thank you, but realized I had forgotten someone so it is for them. No sentiment as yet but one will be added before I give it to them.

I had seen an image on Pinterest using a design similar to this and I liked it so I’ve basically CASE’d the design. I took a white layer and the EF was inked with Versamark before being run through. Then I added silver embossing powder and heat set. I did much the same thing again on another piece which I cut down as you see in the photo. The larger panel was inked with a sponge using Tumbled glass and Chipped Sapphire. I felt it needed more depth of colour so I sprinkled just a smidgen of Colour Burst powder, spritzed with water and set it aside to dry. When dry I added the triangular piece and then my last StampinUp snowflake to which I added a die cut from GKD silver snowflake and the star.

Our party yesterday was a success and lots of fun. Glad we did it then as the day was lovely and roads were good. Today we have snow mixed with rain and the roads are a mess.

The card is being entered into these challenges, December 14th 2024 Anything Goes With A Twist of Poinsettias and Peace on Earth Challenge #78

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