It's another Christmas in July offering from WWC this week - although last week's challenge wasn't Christmas we still had some Christmas entries so I'm guessing a lot of Crafters have Christmas on their minds. Do them all early and avoid the rush - that's what I say.
My card this week uses Colourful seasons and Foxy Friends. I don't actually have any Christmas stamps from the new catalogue yet - the ones I had retired and I'm waiting for the new Winter catalogue to come out before I purchase any new ones. So I've used what I have which are these two stamp sets. I love reindeers on Christmas cards so my foxy has become a reindeer!
I've clear embossed the stars with white embossing powder onto Night of Navy cardstock. The reindeer was stamped with Soft Suede and a lovely bright red Enamel Shape for his nose. The band of paper is from the new set of DSP - Color Theory Designer pack. Some Basic Rhinestones dotted about and a touch of our new shiny ribbon in silver finishes off the card.
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As part of our Stampin Up Team we organise a monthly card swap with themes. The Theme this month was Disney - difficult for me. I am well aware of the copyright issues also with Disney themed products and know that you can't sell them on - although it does surprise me when I see them at shows or on Etsy etc.
Luckily though our cards for the swap do not get sold so we are fine to play around with the theme.
I got my inspiration from Pinterest from Lyssa Griffin Zwolanek who had made similar as party invites for her daughter. Just in case you haven't guessed it its the dress from Frozen! Luckily my children are grown so I haven't really had the pleasure of this Disney film - well I admit my 24 year old daughter made me watch it when it came out and I wasn't that impressed - must be my age.
But I love this dress - I've used the snowflakes from Colourful Seasons. Bermuda Bay ink and Cardstock and Pool Party Cardstock. I've also used Silver Embossing powder, some Basic Rhinestones and some of our Organza Ribbon.
I hope my swap partner likes my effort. Phew - this was tricky.
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Pretty Kitty isn't a new set - but its new to me and I'm absolutely loving it. I wasn't sure at first when I saw it but I just love colouring in the little kitties - they remind me of the cats from the Disney Aristocats - one of my favourites when I was growing up. I'm so pleased that its continuing another year so I'll get lots of fun out of it.
The challenge over at Global Design Project is CASEing the Designer who is Michelle Last. I am lucky enough to have Michelle as my upline's upline and to be part of her Pinkies team. Here's her card for us to have a play with:
She did birds I did cats - never the twain shall meet!!! A bit of a poignant card for me really because my daughter has had one of her cats go missing. He's a six year old chocolate Burmese and she's only had him less than a year as he was a rescue - he has a liver condition and he's been missing for nearly a week now and time seems to be running out for finding him.
I used the Stampin Write markers in the 2016/17 colours to colour in the flowers. The Kitty was coloured in with our Watercolour pencils and a blender pen. The Pot is coloured in with Pacific Point ink and the blender pen. The little flowers have some basic rhinestones on them and of course a splash of Wink of Stella over the pot and the cat.
I took part of the saying and inked it with Pacific Point ink and left the last word off and add some dots. The Thank You is from Thankful Thoughts.
I wrapped some of the Copper Metallic Thread around the card - just to finish it off.
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I love mistletoe and its one of the three staples of my Christmas decorations along with the Holly and Ivy which I collect from woods near my home. Its part of my Christmas tradition and the house is festooned with it. I'm not a lover of plastic or foil decorations - natural for me all the way.
So it makes sense that I love the mistletoe stamp from the Banners for Christmas set but, as I've said before, I've not seen it used much in blogland or Pinterest.
The challenge over at Global Design Project this week screamed the mistletoe stamp for me. The challenge is a sketch challenge shown below
and I've turned it on its side and made it portrait instead of landscape.
I've used Early Espresso for the cardstock and to ink up the mistletoe stamp along with some of the Presents and Pinecones DSP.
I've coloured in the mistletoe with Mint Macaron and added loads of Basic Rhinestones where the berries should be to make it sparkle - I don't think it shows up very well in the photo. The sentiment is also from Banners for Christmas making this a very versatile set.
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I haven't had the time lately to join in with any challenges but this one over at Less is More caught my eye this morning.
I was having one of those Monday's when I had no mojo and couldn't settle to anything.
I took the dogs out for a walk in the country. It is still beautiful weather here in the UK - one of the warmest October's I can remember - reminds me of warm Houston weather. So we did a bit of Conker gathering and blew the cobwebs off and I came back and did a bit of crafting.
Some of these conkers and the leaf are actually bronze mixed in with real - can you tell which is which?
Tegan (Welsh Springer red and white) and Bracken (English Springer) enjoying their walk
My card for the Challenge uses two stamp sets and a thinlet. The mistletoe comes from Banners For Christmas - this isn't a set I've seen used an awful lot yet but I love this mistletoe stamp. Here I've turned it right way up to represent a bunch of flowers and stamped it with Versamark and our Gold Embossing Powder. I've used the Celebrate stamp from Here's To Cheers. I used one of the bauble thinlets from Merry Tags to cut out the bauble shape and then stamped inside it with Versamark and embossed with our Gold Embossing Powder.
A touch of gold Baker's Twine and some Basic Rhinestones finishes off this card - which has a lot of 'white space' - okay red!
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