Freshly Made Sketches #615

I'm getting a start on my Christmas cards for next year.  Today's is for Freshly Made Sketches.

I loved this PTI lantern when I first bought it but didn't use it at all this year.  Now that I've made this card I will definitely be doing others.  All inks are from Catherine Pooler with some PolyChromos pencils added for shading.  I haven't used my Liquid Pearls in forever and was surprised that they still worked beautifully for my berries and the center of the flower.  The background is a burlap embossing folder from Honey Bee. 

I'm so glad you dropped by.  Have a great weekend!

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AAA Cards #254

I saw several cards in the Just Us Girls gallery that were also made for AAA Cards and they inspired me to make one for their challenge. 

The Woodware nativity and sentiment were stamped and heat embossed in gold on black.   I needed white too so I cut the panel with a lacy die from Reverse Confetti.  QACAS!

This will be the start of next year's cards.  I think I should have made two.

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Time Out #253

This is the last challenge of the year for Time Out and they want to see your Sparkly cards.

I can't wait to see all the Sparkle in the gallery,  Will your card be one of them?  The winner of the challenge will get $25 store credit to Picket Fence Studio. 

I cut the Snowflake Circle die from silver glitter cardstock and turned that into a shaker card with sparkly snowflakes from Pretty Pink Posh.  The sentiment is from PTI.

Be sure to check out the Design Team cards.  They have lots of inspiration for you.

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The Flower Challenge #87

It's time for a new challenge at The Flower Challenge and we'd like to see gold on your card along with your flowers.

I got a new hot foil plate and couldn't wait to use it for this challenge.

The plate is Pine Sprays from Spellbinders and I thought it would make a great background for the Waffle Flower poinsettias.  I cut the flowers from a panel spritzed with Peppermint Stick Mica Spray and used a scrap for the sentiment from CPD.  I added a little more gold by using embellishments from Pretty Pink Posh for the centers.   It's difficult to get a good photograph of the shimmer of the gold and mica spray.   At least you can see it a little better here. 

Where will you add gold to your card?  The Design Team would love to see one from you in the gallery.

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Freshly Made Sketches #614

I love it when things fall into place.  The minute I saw the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches I knew I had the perfect die for it.  Then in looking through my Bits box I found just the panel to inlay in the die.

 

The circle die, cut in silver, is from Waffle Flower and an extra part was cut to fill in the bottom corner.  The circles are from a Brusho background that had been in the box for quite a while.  A heat embossed sentiment from Hero Arts was all it took to make a masculine birthday card for my stash.

I couldn't let the leftovers go to waste so I made another card.

I put the circles to the bottom without the extra portion, inlaid the silver circles and added a stamped sentiment from PTI.  It's been gloomy here so no good light to let the silver shine.

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