Christmas Kickstart #106

Here's this month's challenge at Christmas Kickstart.

Pink makes lovely Christmas cards and so I tried my hand at a couple

I saw a card my friend Marcia made a card using the Altenew Perfect Poinsettia embossing folder with patterned paper.  I found a local craft and paper shop near me and picked up a pad from Craft Consortium that was perfect.  The Hero Arts sentiment was cut from SB Treasured Antique Glitter cardstock.  This was my second make.  Here's the first.

There was a bit of a learning curve with the paper as it cracked.  Not wanting to waste the beautiful paper, I tried the Japanese art of Kintsugi. The cracked areas were rubbed with an embossing pen and gold powder added and heated.  The gold sentiment carries on the theme.  To stop the cracking, I misted both sides of the paper on the lighter pink card and it worked beautifully.  Since I have an entire pack of paper in various shades of pink to red to purple you will be seeing a few more of these cards. 

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Inkspirational #358

I have another winter birthday card.  This one is for Inkspirational and their Shine/Shiny challenge.  It's my second post today since the challenge will be closing soon.  

The Snow Flurries Distress Mica Spray background was in my Bits Box.  Sorry the shine doesn't show in the photograph.  Hopefully you can see the shine of Altenew's Dazzling Diamonds cardstock that was used to cut their Layered Snowflakes.  More spray was used on a scrap to cut the sentiment from Altenew's Versatile Greetings, using the Dazzling Diamonds for the shadow.   In real life this has a ton of shine.

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Seize the Birthday #318 and AAA Birthday #81

Today's card is for two challenges.  Seize the Birthday has the topping of "Make your own snowflake background" and AAA Birthday wants a winter birthday card.  Easy Peasy.

It's been a while since I've used a Concord and 9th Turnabout.  In fact I had to look at a video to remember how to do it.  I stamped it three turns using VersaMark ink and white pearl embossing powder on Blueberry.  Even though it's called white pearl it looks silvery when embossed.  'Winter' from TH was cut from white glitter cardstock and the Hero Arts sentiment was white heat embossed on Blueberry scraps and cut apart.  I have plenty of winter birthdays so this will come in handy.

ETA:  This card also qualifies for the Shine/Shiny challenge at Inkspirational so I'm sending it there after my friend Carol begged asked me to.  😁

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Time Out #304

Welcome to the first Time Out challenge of 2026.  It's a theme challenge.

We are also welcoming a new Design Team member, Jaydee from Stampin' with Jaydee.  You will love seeing her creative cards every fortnight.  

Now that Christmas is over, I've started on my valentines. 

Two sizes of MFT hearts were cut from a white panel and layered over Altenew's Treasured Ruby glitter cardstock using foam to pop it up.  The simple sentiment is from Concord and 9th.

Gina K is the sponsor for this challenge and she is rewarding our winner with a $25 store credit.  We award the winner with an invitation to be our guest designer.  That should be incentive enough to enter the challenge.  We hope to see your glitter card in the gallery.

 

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Inkspirational #357

I would say that Inkspirational's theme is very appropriate.

The temperatures have been unusually cold in our area and across the country.  It's best to stay in and craft. LOL

It all started with Penny Black's Snowy who happened to be already colored and in the die package.  I cut three Snowflake Circle Frames from Memory Box, one in a glitter cardstock, and used an MFT circle slightly larger to cut the card front.  The glitter circle was layered on one and the other was used on the inside to give a finished look.  The inside was colored with Stormy Sky Distress Ink before adding Snowy, two glitter snowflakes and a snow hill.  The sentiment is from My Craft Spot which is one of the first stamp companies I bought from and has been out of business for some time.  Here's a look at the inside.

I think Snowy is the only one who doesn't mind this weather.  I mean look at that smile.

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The Paper Players #764

I had some lull time today and went looking for a card challenge.  The Paper Players had one that brought to mind a die set I had been meaning to use.

The bulbs are from Lawn Fawn and I wanted to make them from Treasure Cardstock from Spellbinders.  I had the blue and red but wanted yellow so I used an Altenew artist marker in Lemon Yellow to color the Antique Treasure cs and used the matte metallic from each pack for the bottom layer that shows through as a highlight.  What looks like black on my card is actually silver from Recollections, used for the string, bulb tops and border.  The sentiment is from Concord and 9th. 

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