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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December 14th 2024 Anything Goes With A Twist of Poinsettias and https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/ are the two challenges I am entering this card into today. I didn’t take the twist of Poinsettias and the card is mostly white on white. Supplies used are as follows, EF from Sizzix, Dies from Taylored Expressions, Unbranded mini houses/snow set, and the tiny birds are from Poppy Stamps. I added some sparkle spray to my background piece before using foam tape to add to the note card. Because I had been using a paper towel underneath my spray, I had the idea of using it for my snow banks which gives it both sparkle and texture. The trees are also popped up with tape but I added the church, lamp post and birds flat to the embossed piece. I find it interesting that white can be so varied depending on what one is using.

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate it. Have a good Sunday, we are hosting a potluck tomorrow so I am finishing up in my craft room now, as I won’t have much spare time tomorrow.

Christmas Ornaments Challenge is the current theme at DD, and I’ve chosen a snow globe as my ornament. The die I used is an old one by Precious Marieke and it an easy one to use. I just folded a regular size card placed the die with one side edge deliberately missed so I could keep the fold. The 2nd circle die is often used to make a shaker style, but I chose to use it to cut my PP (an old paper pad), the interior piece and the bottom of my stamped piece. My poinsettias are a few leftover from a different project and I used them to decorate the base of the card. I added some leaves and foliage that I punched with a Martha Stewart punch. The stamp set is by MFT. I coloured it with watercolour pencils and some sparkle pens then curved the base of the stamped area and fussy cut the top portion before using foam tape to pop it up slightly. Sentiment is on the interior, as the music PP makes it busy, which would detract from a sentiment on the front. This is another of the commissioned cards a friend requested and it had to have some music and or a church. My village scene features a church in the background and the PP speaks for itself.

It is another extremely wild rainy day here today and there were a bunch of ferry cancellations this morning. Anyone in a hurry to get to or from the mainland would have been out of luck earlier. Thanks for spending some time with me today, I appreciate you and any comments you may leave.

Yay, I did it, I met my goal of entering into the As You See It challenge for the entire year and this is my card for the current and last one of the year, Challenge #338 – A Window into the New Year.

I started with an embossed layer of metallic silver CS to which I eventually added the white layer. EF is an old one by Cuttlebug, so old that the hinge is broken and it is held together with tape. Stamp sets are from MFT and Spellbinders and that includes the curved Celebrate die cut at the bottom. I fussy cut the other two curved strips as I wanted them much narrower. After stamping the leafy branch and colouring it with some Sakura sparkle pens, I did the bird on a separate piece. He was coloured using Prisma pencils as well as a touch of sparkle for his scarf. Once die cut I popped him up slightly and added him to the branch. This panel was then added to the other. I added the curved pieces underneath and then the sentiment piece before considering it finished.

I’m quite happy with the end result, and already have the recipient in mind for this card. After a few days of house guests last week, this week is a bit more on the normal side. We are hosting a potluck on Sunday next for which I have some desserts to make, but other than this, I should have time to finish up in my craft room and actually get it clean and tidy too.

No sign of the mail strike ending so I guess cards will arrive sometime next year. The mind set of the strikers leaves me astonished at times.

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SSC349 An Elegant Christmas is the latest challenge at Sunday Stamps. It is a colour challenge, but there is an inspiration photo as well, and I chose silver, gold and dark green as my colours. Using a die from Kokorosa, I cut the green ribbon that looks like packaging to me. For the base I used a gray green CS and I stamped some stars from an old GKD set in both green and pale gray. Using a glitter pen I went over each of the larger stars to give them sparkle. The silver/gold bow is from an unbranded set and my gold tag is from a set my hubby bought for me a long time ago. In those days I never realized the importance of keeping the brand information, sorry. The sentiment is from a Divinity Designs set and I fussy cut this to fit the tag. Before I added the tag, I wanted more shimmer so I covered the bow and then sprayed the entire thing with shimmer spray. Its quite pretty in reality.

A simple and relatively easy card to make that looks better in my craft room than it does on the photo. Thanks for spending time with me today. I appreciate you all.

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/ This challenge is about winter so I created a snowflake background using an old folder by Cuttlebug on silver CS. Using a lot of scraps I figured out sizing and cut background pieces and PP to fit before adding them to the embossed piece. Using a Scrapbook.com alphabet die set I created the word in both red and white so I could offset the top layer slightly. Added them to each strip. I found the tiny poinsettias in a box that I had made from last year and added them as well as the puffy sticker Santa before adding the entire panel to the red card front.

I think I have about 30 cards still to make and the rest are already in envelopes ready to be mailed when the strike is over. The strikers were shivering outside the post office this morning as it is cold and frosty. I do not feel sorry for them at all.

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