52 Christmas Card Throwdown #34.23 and Peace On Earth #47

The color challenge at 52 Christnas Card Throwdown was an easy one for me.  Blue, green and brown.

The branches and pine cones are from The Greetery and the sentiment is from Concord and 9th.  I was going to ink a background but found this paper from Honey Bee that looked like a snowy sky to me.  I'm also sending my card to Peace on Earth.  They have a fabulous moodboard but thankfully they accept any Christmas cards since I didn't use their images. 

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52 Christmas Card Throwdown - 13.2023

It's sketch week at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.  

I went back and forth on what I wanted to do and ended up using the HoneyBee bear that I used on another Christmas card. 

He's cut from kraft and inked with DI for some dimension.  The DSP looked forest-y to me so I added strips of it along with the pines from The Greetery and pinecone from Gina Marie.  The Brushed Pines folder added dimension to the background and the bear is holding a sentiment from PTI. 

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Happy Little Stampers Christmas - April 2019

The optional twist for this month's Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge is

That leaves it wide open if you decide to use the twist.  I did.

I used Distress Markers on a Penny Black stamp, spritzing at first and then re-stamping several times until I liked the look.  I spritzed again and sprinkled high white embossing powder to make snow.  After embossing the HLS sentiment in platinum, the panel was edged with dark green cardstock and placed on some Desert Storm.

Now that you've seen my card, why not head over to the blog to see what the rest of the Design Team did for their Christmas card.  I hope we inspire you to make a card for the challenge.

Merry Monday #282 and CASology #292

It's foil day today.  CASology has the code word 'Foil' and I used foil in my interpretation of Merry Monday's photo.

I saw the fabric rippled in the background and since I have a fabric embossing folder it was meant to be that I create this card.

Can you believe I even got a decent picture of a shiny surface?  I laid it on my kitchen table with the sun shining in the window.  I may give up the light box if the sun continues to shine. ;)  Greens and word die by TH, pine cone by Gina Marie borrowed from Michele.

Remember a while ago I said I made seven cards over the weekend?  I hope the same is true this weekend because this is the last finished card I have.  It's been a busy week and I didn't get any crafting done.  Today is free after I finish the altar decorations at the church so I'm spending it in my craft room.  I just hope Ms. Inspiration is there with me.

Thanks for dropping by.  Have a great weekend.

Merry Monday #279 and AAA Cards #109

I have a couple of Christmas cards for you today. The first one is for Merry Monday and their poinsettia challenge.

I gold heat embossed the flowers from EH and watercolored with Distress Inks.  The sentiment from HLS is gold heat embossed too.

The next card is for AAA Cards.  They want a die cut only card and that worked best for another Christmas card.

The images are cut from paper that has been smooshed with Distress Inks including the sentiment. The pines are TH, the pine cone Gina Marie and the sentiment is EH.

I'm glad you dropped by today.  How are your Christmas cards coming? 

Curtain Call's Last Hurrah

Yes, you read that right.  This is the very last challenge at Curtain Call.  They are dropping the final curtain and we are sad to see them go.  I had to make a card to pay tribute to them and their wonderful challenges.

Can you believe this is a die cut only card?  It just worked out that way with my TH greens and sentiment both cut from Brusho paper and a wonderful layered pine cone that I cut at Michele's.  It's all based on this inspiration photo.

Things are winding down as we near Christmas eve but I still have some cards in the works.  I just can't stop creating.  Never can. Never will.

Thanks for dropping by.  Have a very Merry Christmas.