I’m in full Christmas creating mode at the moment and if a card fits a challenge, great, if not, no worries. Choosing the layout I liked quite a lot from a while ago challenge I decided to cut some PP for a background. Quite by accident the paper I chose fits with the Double D challenge so here is one of the several cards that works.

I don’t measure the PP, just eyeball it and cut. As the paper is two sided it is very easy to match because its all in the same colour family. In this case, snowflakes on one side and stripes on the other. Using an older and much loved favourite GKD die I cut a few snowflakes from holographic paper and added them both in front and behind the larger StampinUP snowflake. I initially thought I would use it alone, but it didn’t standout enough. The dies used for the words are from Spellbinders and I cut the one shown here in both silver and black, slightly offsetting them so it would standout from the background. I added one silvery large gem to the center of the snowflake and decided that adding more would be a mistake.

I hope your day has been going well. I’ve managed 6 more cards today so I feel productive. Thanks for stopping by, it is appreciated.

I think this will be the last card I do that is about fall and or thanksgiving and initially I had no idea of what to make. I knew I had the stamp set from YNS but wasn’t sure I wanted to do leaves. Then I remembered this ancient Sizzix die of the owl and wondered if adding it along with leaves would work. I’m happy with the result and I like the sentiment (YNS) as it can be used with anything. The sentiment was stamped with a dark brown ink. The little owl was die cut in both copper and brown with a layered yellow beak. The leaves were stamped and coloured with inks and two of the smaller ones were done separately and die cut so the owl would look as if he had some leaves falling around him. It is a simple card and fits into the CAS Fall moodboard at AAA so I’m adding it there.

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The moodboard at Inkspirational has a chalkboard along with candles and pinecones and that particular part of the board inspired this card. The foliage/pinecone stamp was already in my stamping platform and is from an old set for which I have no information. I stamped onto some beige/brown CS using 2 inks, then when dry, I fussy cut them. The black piece is cut using dies from Gina K which includes the candles. I left them white but added colour, using pencils, to the wick and the flames. After fooling around with placement I added the main parts as you see and then took a Martha Stewart punch and added the copper and silver branches as well as the small sprigs at the very bottom. These came from StampinUp. Sentiment was heat embossed in gold and is from YNS and gems are from my stash. There is some gold sparkle here and there but it doesn’t show in the photo. The card front is something I inked the other day and wasn’t happy with, so the black layer helped me to use it. It is a small square card and is kind of cute in real life.

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I almost missed this challenge, but remembered just in time. Taking a scrap piece of soft purple paper I dry embossed it with an old snowflake folder. I edged it with ribbon leaving only the gold edge showing from underneath and then added it to the card front. Using a Catherine Pooler stamp and die set I stamped 2 sets of leaves and die cut them. Then I used a Prisma Color light blue pencil for colouring the leaves and some tiny punched circles in purple for interest. After adding them as you see I included a StampinUp snowflake to which I added some purple gems. A few of the same scattered around the leaves and a repeat stamp of the word Joy (also a StampinUp product) and I considered the card complete.

This was a quick card to put together and one more done for my Christmas stash. Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate it.

One of my stamp buddies made the suggestion of my repeating the card I did yesterday and make it into a birthday card so it would fit the challenge at Seize the Birthday. I thought about it, but as I still don’t like the original I decided to do something quite different and I’m really happy with this one.

After viewing a few examples of cards using neutrals, I had planned on another floral in a square shaped card. It used a piece of ribbon and that is the only thing I took and used, because when I went looking through my dies I found this music die, that I bought from Kokorosa, and hadn’t yet used. I die cut it and spent some time cleaning up the edges which seemed to have frayed a bit. Then I put it against a white background over the ribbon (from GKD), as you see here. Before I adhered it I stamped the sentiment (from Spellbinders) at the top in Versamark then heat set in gold. Using my new lowercase alphabet dies (from Scrapbook.com) I die cut the letters in gold. After some playing I liked how they looked going across the music notes so this is where they were glued.

I am really thrilled with how this card turned out. It seems to have an elegance to it and yet is quite simple too. Thanks for spending your valuable time with me today, it is appreciated.

If I’m honest, I’m not sure I like this card but as often happens it may grow on me when I’ve acquired some distance from it. As with so many of my cards lately it morphed into something totally different than what I had in my head. It was intended for the challenge at Seize the Birthday but I’ve just realized that although the neutrals work, the sentiment does not so it is back to the drawing board for a card there. Keeping it totally neutral was a bit of a challenge, but I managed it and although the Four Seasons challenge is more about Thanksgiving it does fit the neutral of the lower left image, so I’m adding it there.

I ued a Gina K Design poinsettia stamp for the images and sentiment, but the background used a set for which I have no name. It is an older set and likely purchased at Michaels when I first started using stamps. I used Tea Dye ink on the background and initially for stamping the floral but I went over the poinsettia with a gold pen as there wasn’t enough definition. I added the sparkle spray to the flower aswell. Then I added a little Vintage photo ink around the edges of the flower and the panel. Sentiment was done in the same ink but I heat embossed it clear and fussy cut it.

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Another card for the challenges here: Just Us Girls Challenge #704 – Color Week, Peace On Earth Challenge #51 anything goes, https://colorfuloptions.blogspot.com/ RED

When working on my last card post yesterday, I had a thought about this MFT die and decided to use it to create another card. I cut several layers with the final one being this red glitter CS. After gluing them together I added the piece to a vellum layer which in turn was added to the pale green CS. Using the Sizzix holly die I cut several in two different shades of green and added them around the word. Using a small Divinity Designs sentiment I stamped and cut out the word Christmas to add as you see. A few tiny gems for holly berries and it was finished.

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Supplies used to create this card come from various sources, an alphabet die from Scrapbook.com, a cover plate from Altenew, foliage from Sizzix, an unbranded cable die, and some tiny gems from my stash.

I die cut the letters several times and stacked the layers for dimension and some strength. Sprayed them with a sparkle spray and set aside to dry. I die cut the cable panel in a GKD CS, the foliage in 3 different greens and used the cover plate on the card front for a bit of interest behind the frame piece. Using a sparkle pen I also went over half the letters with the silvery sparkle for more definition. I put each layer together and then added the letters into the foliage keeping them slightly wonky. My original idea for this card wasn’t working so it morphed into what you see here. I quite like how it turned out and hope you do too.

At the suggestion from a commenter, I am adding this to the challenge at Peace On Earth Challenge #51.

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Welcome to the new challenge at Make My Monday which is use light, (candles, Christmas lights, Lightbulbs etc.) so there is lots of scope here. My example uses a lantern die set from Divinity Designs and a sentiment from a new set I’ve just received from YNS.

Die cutting all the pieces was my first step and I chose scraps of CS to do this. Once I had all this ready I began to put the pieces together. For the lantern background I used a scrap piece of cream CS and added some yellow ink with a brush so it looks like the candle light. I used an infinity oval die set from Hero Arts to cut the gold oval. For the actual background I took a bluish/greenish coloured piece of vellum and added the snowflakes using a stencil from KaiserKraft and Lost Shadow ink. When I was about to add this over a white card base the snowflakes almost disappeared so instead I used black card base and I liked this much more. I added the sentiment and called it finished.

I am entering this card into the stencil challenge at https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/

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The recipe at As You See It is to use the following: Embossing folder, die cut, PP, Holiday theme, and ribbon or twine. For my card I used a new YNS stamp set that came with a matching die and I stamped both the critter image and the sentiment. Initially I thought to use both the PP and a white piece for the sentiment, but I wasn’t happy so in the end decided to stamp directly onto the PP and heat embossed it so it would stand out. The EB 3D folder is another new item that I got last week. It is by Sizzix and is called Sparkly Ornaments. I went over the embossing with a gold pigment ink and the CS I used is shimmer white. I coloured the image with watercolour pencils before die cutting it. The little gold twine bow is one I tied a while back when my hands were in the right shape. If I tried that today the air would be blue because my hands are refusing to cooperate right now. I added a small amount of glitter using a pen for some sparkle.

I quite like how the image is such fun, but the background is more elegant to view. Thanks for stopping by, you are appreciated, as are any comments you may leave.