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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Christmas Craft Creations 2.23

Yesterday I posted a card for the Christmas Throwdown but when I first looked at the challenge I went to the wrong site and saw the prompt was pink.  I started working on a pink card but then went back to the Throwdown to see if other colors could be added and saw that I had been in the wrong place.  The end result of my brain fog is that I now have another card for my Christmas stash.  This one is for Christmas Craft Creations. 

Watercolor paper was smooshed with Distress Inks and then cut with Altenew's 3D Poinsettia Die.  The flower was placed on a panel embossed with a TH/Sizzix folder and a silver heat embossed sentiment from Penny Black. 

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Time Out #145

As you may have heard, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and Time Out has decided to use that as their theme for this challenge.

They are being sponsored by CASual Fridays and I used one of their stamps to make my card.  You know me I had to do the twist. ;)

I stamped in Altenew ink and clear embossed this Hope ribbon, adding a sentiment from the same set.

Thanks for dropping by.  It's been a rainy few days here but that just gives me more time to create.  I hope you have some creative time too.

Time Out #93

Time is running out and I almost forgot I wanted to enter the Time Out challenge where the theme is Breast Cancer Awareness.  They want a card about friendship and/or awareness with the optional twist of pink.

Since the challenge is sponsored by CAS-ual Fridays, I used their Tin Roof stamp for my background.  It's embossed in white and watercolored with Picked Raspberry.  The sentiment from A-Muse is stamped in Picked Raspberry DOX.

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