INSPIRED BY....

On my Facebook Group recently one of our members posted a lovely card which used some fab papers that really caught my eye. Turns out they were called Festive Chalkboard by Craftwork Cards and I was lucky enough to be able to find a pack.

They arrived today and whilst I was drooling over them, the challenge over at Inspired By popped into my feed and this is their image this week - 







Well the flask on the far left is almost the exact copy of one of the papers so that became my inspiration for my card.

I wanted to use the Little Robin stamp again from Wild Rose so I decided to do a Gatefold Card with the robin front and center.   I used some Night of Navy cardstock for the base and the checked patterns of the new papers.  The sentiment comes from Stampin Up Warmth and Wonder.

I coloured him in with SU Watercolour Pencils and added some Frosted Lace stickles to his hat and his pom pom.  The inside stamp was a free one from a magazine with all the little robins.  

            

GLOBAL DESIGN PROJECT - WINTER WOODS

I've turned to Stampin Up's Winter Woods for my card for the Global Design Project  #gdp160   challenge today - it's a Case the Designer challenge



I first stamped in Pear Pizazz the bare trees from an old SU set Warmth and Wonder.  I cut out the large conifer tree from Winter Woods - mainly because I don't have the matching framelits.  I used an X-Acto knife to cut a small slit in the tree and slid the greeting inside the tree.  The sentiment is also from Warmth and Wonder. 

I used a piece of burlap ribbon for the background and popped it all up on dimensionals.  The background in Soft Suede has been embossed with the holly embossing folder and I've added some non SU dazzling rhinestones in copper to add a touch of bling.  The tree is also covered in Wink of Stella.



 

OH CHRISTMAS TREES

I'm playing along with the challenge at Global Design Project #GDP158 this week which is a sketch challenge.  I'm also adding this into the TGIF challenge #tgifc180 which is a colour challenge - all of the colours they've asked for are in the background paper - I wonder if that's cheating? lol! 





I've chosen to use a retired stamp set from Stampin Up called Warmth and Wonder - I just love the little trees in this set.

I inked them up with some Kaisercraft Ink in Lagoon, and the dots were added in SU Island Indigo - these colours go so well together!  I kept them simply inked in a line and added some detail with some Rhinestones from Kaisercraft and a touch of Wink of Stella.

I've used some Share What You Love DSP from Stampin Up for the background continuing the theme of those little dots on the trees.  I've used some Island Indigo card stock to back the trees - but not before cutting out some shapes with the stitched framelits.  I always do this with card stock I use for backing - it's too precious and expensive to waste and then you always have a little stash of cut outs.  The thread is some I had in my stash and works perfectly and, as the sentiment has a full stop (period) at the end of it - my pet hate - I've added another rhinestone there to cover it.



 

WARMTH AND WONDER

A big Thank You to Retro Rubber who chose my Retiform card as one of their special cards this week.

Another Christmas card from me today - using the SU retired Warmth and Wonder set.  This one is for two challenges - A colour challenge at Just Add Ink #423  - I loved these soft colours and, although not immediately thought off for Christmas I thought they would look nice on a Christmas card.   



The other challenge is for The Paper Players PP407 who gave us a sketch to follow.

I used the masking technique to mask off my lines and inked all the inks with a Tim Holtz sponge dauber.  I kept the colours light and soft and ethereal.  The tree was inked in Bermuda Bay and then I added some stars, the sentiment and the dots in the tree all in Silver Embossing Powder.  I think the colours look quite good for Christmas - I hope you agree.