Christmas Kickstart #99

Christmas Kickstart is a good way to get going on your Christmas cards.  Jo and her elf-of-the month inspire you with some makes of their own using this month's theme - Christmas Critters. 

My card was made using Penny Black's Festive Frolic.  The images were colored with Altenew artist markers and the background was made with Distress Inks and masking for the hill.  I don't remember who makes the sentiment but I thought it worked great for the scene.

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Color Hues #100

It's blue and purple at the month long challenge at Color Hues.  I had an idea right away and have had the cards made for a while but the extra time had me dragging my feet to post.  I'm finally getting it done.  

I wanted to use the MFT bear from one set and the ice floes and sign from another.  They are stamped in gray and colored with Altenew artist markers.  I started with watercolor paper for my background and was not happy with how the sky turned out so I added some regular and Mica Distress sprays.  Much better.  A torn piece of cardstock made my frozen tundra. While I had everything out I made a second one.

This time I went directly to the sprays.  The outlines are stamped in black and the scarf is a lighter shade of the same colors.  The sentiments are from PTI. 

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CASology #326

Frozen.  The perfect cue word for Mid-Michigan as the temperatures hover below 32.  It's also the cue word for this week's CASology challenge.  We don't have them here but the word brought to mind my MFT polar bear stamp.

I colored him with PolyChromos pencils, adding a silver pen to the blades.  The sentiment (from My Craft Spot) and snowflakes are embossed with Wanderlust which I also added to the top of the 'ice'.  The shine is hard to see on screen but it gives a cold and frozen look.

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CASology #323

The cue word at CASology sent me right to my favorite bear.

I knew I had a north pole sign, given to me by someone so I don't know who makes it, that I could put in the hands of the EbyE bear.  I also put him afloat on an iceberg sent to me by Darnell.  I guess you could call this a team project.

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Inkspirational #144

The weather has turned a little cooler here but it's even cooler in the craft room because I went with a polar bear for the challenge at Inkspirational.

He's colored with Zigs and placed on one of the ice floes that my friend Darnell gifted me.  For the background I masked off a horizon line and used Distress Inks in Stormy Sky for the sky and Tumbled Glass for the water.  I thought those colors lightly applied looked rather chilly.

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Addicted to CAS #108

Susan is the host at Addicted to CAS and she's chosen the code word - Smile.

It took a while to come up with something because I didn't just want to use the word on my card.  This is what I used instead.

Don't you just love the smile on the MFT polar bear?  The background is smooshed with Distress Oxides and the bear colored with Zigs.

The winner of this challenge will get a $15 gift certificate from HLS.

We'd love to see what you make inspired by the word ' smile'.

Inkspirational #124

The challenge at Inkspirational this time is 'Neutrals Only' and I had a NBUS stamp set that was perfect for it.

I won the MFT Polar Bear stamps but I'm not sure how.  Ardyth sent me an email to say I won and sent me the set but I can't find what challenge I won that offered a prize.  I am grateful however and I love the set.  I stamped the bear on Bristol and colored him with Zigs.  He's behind a Polaroid frame by PTI with sentiments by CF/SOA.  This is going off to my sister-in-law whose birthday is January 1.  With all the Christmas goings on I often have to send her a belated card.  Not this year.

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