CHRISTMAS CRAFT CREATIONS - DESIGNER SERIES PAPER

Our challenge for you this month at Christmas Craft Creations  is to use some Designer Paper on your card.  This was quite tricky for me as I don't tend to use papers on my cards any more preferring to make my own backgrounds.  A hunt through my scrapbooking papers found this much loved series of papers from Kaisercraft called Wonderland Collection.  I only have a few bits of it left as it was one of my favourites for scrapping with.

I used the paper that had these lovely trees on it but had to jazz it up a bit.  I added a little chipboard tree I had in my stash and coloured it with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide in Chipped Sapphire.  I used a piece of Tim Holtz Idealogy for the 25 and the sentiment came from Kaisercraft from the same pack.  I added a Tim Holtz deer die in the same paper and edged with the distress ink.  I added some lace paper at the bototm and some star embellishments on the trees.  I covered the trees and the 25 with some Spectrum Noir sparkle as it is a Christmas card and needs some glitter lol! 

Don't forget to add your graphic if you join in with us for a chance to be our winner. 

HAND STAMPED SENTIMENTS SC386

Here's our sketch for you this week from Hand Stamped Sentiments.  I turned mine onto its side elevation to give me more room for the larger circle I wanted to use.  I've just got the new stamp set from Tracy Evans called Friendship Florals with lots of lovely large image stamps and great words too.  I love her stamps which allow me to make these collage style stamps - I love the collage look on stamps or art journals and these stamps make it so easy.

Here I've used the sunflower stamp and added it to a stitched circle frame.  It has been coloured in with Derwent Metallic Watersoluble pencils which gives it quite a vibrant look, sadly missing in the photo.

The smaller circles are some more of the stamps from the set and the sentiment is from two of the word stamps.  I coloured all the circles with a light coating of Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass and used the same ink for the background and went over it with a stencil using Distress Ink in Faded Jeans.  

I added a touch of Tracey Evans Birdsong Washi Tape to the top and bottom of the card. I edged the circles with a Stabilo all pencil in black to add a touch of shading.  There is also some Spectrum Noir sparkle on parts of the card.

I'm adding this into the following challenges:

International Art & Soul - Circles 

Sir Stampalot - I love.....

We love 2 create - mixed media AG 

We love stamping - stamp of the moment 

SPARKLES CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE - WINTER WONDERLAND - DECEMBER #107

Our final challenge for this year at Sparkles Christmas Challenge is Winter Wonderland. I have loved being part of this Design Team and it's great to have at least twelve cards already made for Christmas.  

I decided to use an old stamp set I found in my stash - I can't remember where I got it from but it has a snow globe, two sentiments and three images to go inside the globe.  I chose to use the deer.  I first embossed the snow globe with silver embossing powder.  I then stamped the image inside and coloured it with some Derwent Metallic Pencils.  I used Tim Holtz Chipped Sapphire for the sky.  I added some extra snow with a white gel pen.  The deer have been covered in Glossy Accents to give that glass shimmer.  The sentiment is from another winter set I have.  I popped it up on dimensionals and added some silver ribbon.  I then added it all onto a piece of white card stock which had been embossed with a snow flake design. I added some Spectrum Noir glitter pen to the inside of the globe and to some of the snowflakes.

It just remains for me to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!  Thank you for playing along with us this year - I hope you've enjoyed making Christmas cards all year round as I have.



 

STAMPIN UP ONLY CHALLENGE SUOC231 - COLOUR CHALLENGE

Our colour challenge for SUOC231 uses the following colours:

Granny Apple Green, Pool Party, Mango Melody & Lovely Lipstick

I've used some of the new DSP for my background showcasing the lovely Mango Melody colour.

I used the same paper to cut out the butterfly from the retired Watercolour Wings framelit.  I've used an old favourite SU set here called Lotus Blossom and inked it in Mango Melody once, stamped off, then Mango Melody again full strength then Lovely Lipstick as the third colour.  The stem was stamped in the Granny Apple Green.  I've added some Spectrum Noir glitter pen to the flower.  The sentiments were stamped in Pool Party and I used some Pool Party as the background.

 

TRY STAMPIN ON TUESDAY - #TSOT422

Here's our challenge for you this week at TSOT - #TSOT422 -

I chose to use the image for my inspiration this week.  I used a mini chevron stencil from The Crafters Workshop to represent the chevrons on the cake.   I used a rainbow colour palette of Tim Holtz Distress inks.  I used an old die cut I had to cut out the words out of the chevrons - I've kept the cut out for another card.  I then cut out the words twice more in white and black and layered them onto the card. I added some pearls in pinks and blue to the little balloons on the die cut.  I generous smattering of Spectrum glitter pen also gives it some shine.

 

SUOC228 - FAVOURITE NEW PRODUCTS

Our Challenge over at SUOC228 this week is Favourite New Products from the new Stampin Up Catalogue.  I am not a demo so I don't get as many new goodies as those that are but I have fallen in love with the Floral Essence set of stamps and the gorgeous Designer Series Paper.  Monet is one of my favourite artists and this paper just screams his water lilies to me - I think it's good enough to just put in a frame on its own.

I used some of it as a background for my card.  I stamped the flowers in Blackberry Bliss, Basic Gray and also used a very old SU ink pad called Spectrum Stampin Pad which has five inks in one that you can push together to get an inked combination.  This was such a clever product I'm surprised SU don't bring it back!  I cut out all the flowers - I'm not very good at fussy cutting but these were really simple to cut - I used an old banner framelit for the sentiment and added some sparkle with Spectrum Noir sparkle pen. 

I'm looking forward to seeing what all your favourite new products are - do pop along to the rest of the Design Team and have a look at their inspiration.

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