On occasion something viewed on TV will inspire a card. This entry is one of them. We were watching a British Live Theatre performance with a Christmas theme and the backdrop was lit in such a way that I wondered if I could recreate it. Considering how fiddly this was to do, I’m surprised it worked. I took some thin silver cord and added to the the white base and then spent some time adding the sequins to the cord. It took forever but I do like the end result so it was worth the time. I used a GKD stamp from a small set called Noel and heat embossed it with Cosmic Shimmer Powder which I love. Added the panel to a red base and it fits the Sweet Stampin challenge of stripe or spots. Cord is the stripes and the sequins the spots and amazingly it is also a CAS card.

Once in the past I tried to make one of these recessed panel cards and while it worked I had no guide on how to do it and my math being so hopeless meant that I wasted some CS in the process. This week I found HERE some actual instructions and decided to try another one. This was so much easier and way more successful too.

The PP is from a package by Reminisce and I used a snowfall embossing folder on the triangular pieces. I die cut 2 snowflakes one in mirror card and one from PP and put them together for more dimension. They were popped up on foam at the corner. The ornaments used the Pinpoint Ornament dies from Poppystamps that I cut and then embossed from blue foil and from the same blue foil I added some edging to the white pieces. I really like how the blues play together. I counted my cards today and have about 25 more to go before I’m finished – Yay!

The snowflake PP is a scrap piece from a package by Reminisce that I mounted onto another scrap piece of darker blue. This in turn was added to the silver base card. Before that step I used a tiny stamp from a set that I won (long time ago) from Inspired by Stamping called Sweet Aviary and I heat embossed the chain in silver step by step. The ornaments are die cut and embossed on mirror card and they are called Pinpoint Ornaments by Poppystamps. I added some foam before putting on the chain ends. I love the way the embossing turned out on these as usually I cut and paper piece the design sections. It took me forever to tie the little bows as my arthritic fingers no longer like to fiddle with tiny cords. I’m glad I persevered as at one point I was ready to throw them away in frustration. The sentiment was heat embossed onto another scrap of the blue paper and is from Hero Arts.

This card was made weeks ago, and I was waiting for a challenge to enter it into. This one at JUGs seems like the perfect time to enter it. The card started with some scraps, the plaid came from an envelope, the packages are from a napkin that I fussy cut after mounting onto some card stock and I also glittered them. The dog is from a Tim Holtz, Crazy dogs stamp set as is the Santa hat. These two images were coloured with pencils and then put together. I also added some googly eyes to the dog. The sentiment is from a set called Snowman by Dare 2B Artsy as is the holly image. I added a few tiny red dots with a pen.

For this card several stamp sets were used, mainly GKD – Noelle Mouse, Purrfect Christmas and then one small package stamp from a Hero Arts set. The images were coloured with a combination of pencils and Sakura gelly roll pens. Not seen on photo is that there is a lot of sparkle on this card. The little stars are fallouts from a different project. Sentiment stamped onto a scrap piece of black CS and then heat embossed white. I like that little mischievous cat in the box as he/she is cute.

This sketch challenge proved to be a challenge as I couldn’t seem to get any ideas flowing when I started. Rather than continue to struggle, I spent 40 minutes adding strips to scrap card stock while I let my subconscious work a bit. That helped and here is the card I eventually came up with. Mainly used the stamps from a GKD set called Warmer with You, I stamped the images with the help of my misti. The sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts. Images were coloured with Sakura Gelly roll sparkle pens and the snowflakes were stamped with Distress Ink. I added a few gems to the snowflakes and around center glove image as I had a smudge to cover up. There is a lot of sparkle on this card in real life.

For this slimline card, I decided to use a Spellbinders die that I got on sale last year when in Texas. Using a scrap piece of DSP I die cut the sledding image and then using another die from Cottage Cutz I cut two sets of village houses. I coloured the sledding piece using pencils but left some of the DSP pattern showing on faces and base. After dry embossing the snow at the top I then glued the village houses. I also added a bit more of a snowy bank at the bottom and stamped the Hero Arts greeting in the corner. Using a sparkle pen I added some light in windows and on the bunting so that the village would stand out a bit more. Then I added the main die cut on top of the rest. Added this panel to a top folding base and another card completed with only a few more to go now.

I made this card last week but hadn’t yet posted it. After seeing that it fit the new challenge at Inkspirational I decided to post it now. It was inspired by a card I had seen but cannot now find a link to and the designer had used leaves whereas I decided to use stars. Basically I die cut stars from various scrap pieces using 2 different dies along with one tiny one. The frame is from a PaperRose stitched rectangle set. The sentiment is from LawnFawn. Once the frame was cut I added it to the dark blue piece and then onto the card front. I heat embossed the sentiment and die cut the word several times to make it thicker. Played with placement to ensure I could get the stars and sentiment to work together and then glued it all as shown. I’m pretty happy with end result and my hubby thinks it is great.

When I was fooling around with some left over strips of CS I decided to create a couple of background pieces with them. I just randomly glued strips to a scrap piece and then using dies from my MFT set I cut out the trees. I really liked the result so I cut a piece of white CS to look like some snow, glued it at the bottom of the black card front and added the trees. Using 2 tiny star stamps I stamped the stars and then went over them with a sparkle pen. I white heat embossed the sentiment which is from Hero Arts. I would have used snowflakes but couldn’t find one small enough. Note to self – buy some additional small stamps for Christmas designs.

The berries in the photo reminded me of beads so I used sequins to build a tree. Some of the photo colours are represented by both sequins and ribbon. My design style is mostly CAS but as there is a layer it is a combination of CAS and Clean and Layered.

I glued the sequins into a tree shape and added a strip of gold to make the trunk. Added the ribbon at the bottom with the sentiment (from Hero Arts) just above it. A very simple card and quick to make too.