WINTER SCENE

For my first Christmas card of 2021, I designed a serene winter scene for the current Christmas Kickstart Challenge where the theme is "deer".  Since the deer and the tree are silhouetted against the sky, I am also entering my card at CAS Christmas as the theme is "silhouette".

Wanted to have a sort of gray/blue sky so blended several inks to achieve that effect.  Embossed the tree in white and added two layers of "snow" with some Spectrum Noir for sparkle.  Added my stag and put it all together into a slimline card.

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CASEing JENNIFER

Our current challenge at A Blog Named Hero is to CASE an a favorite card of the year.  I chose a card by Jennifer Kotas by using her design, dark blue background, shaker element and the white embossed feature.

 

My Hero Arts snowflakes are all very old stamps as is the sentiment - one of my all time favorites.  I began by first cutting the rectangle window, arranging the various snowflake stamps and the sentiment using my MISTI, stamping in Versamark and white embossing.  Next I mixed up some white gouache with a little water and spattered all over the background.  I dry embossed a piece of lighter blue cs with a snow ef and put the shaker part together using some HA snowflakes and sequins.  Added a glittery die cut snowflake and mounted all on a white card base.

I'm sure you have a favorite card that will inspire you to CASE it using Hero Arts products and enter here.  You'll have a chance to win one of two gift cards from Hero Arts.

EDIT:  Cat pointed out that my card would work for Challenge Up Your Life Challenge (snowflakes theme) so will enter it there also. 

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FAVES OF 2020

HAPPY 2021 my friends!  Creating cards has been my happy place this past year as I know it probably has been for you also.  It was fun to choose favorites from this past year - just picked a few that I especially like.  Click on the title beneath the photo to link to the blogpost.

Celebrate

Bloom

Lilies

Peonies

Best Fishes

Poinsettia

Thanks for visiting me this past year and hope you will continue to do so in 2021!

BE MY VALENTINE

Hero Arts has a challenge to create a card that is "Inspired By..." one of their designers.  I chose a card by Emily Midgett - it was one of her twenty minute cards she did for Christmas where she did some blending on a background and used a cover plate.

 

I began with a card base of peony cs and blended DO festive berries, picked raspberry and worn lipstick.  Added the die cut along with the sentiment and a few rose gold sequins.  I black stamped the sentiment and clear embossed it.  Then I used festive berries DO to color the background to match.  My card took a bit longer than twenty minutes, but to reproduce it again would be pretty quick.

I am also going to enter my card at Die Cut Divas where the theme is "Anything Goes".

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SNOWFLAKES

A quick post today with a snowflake card created with my new snowflake embossing folder.

I embossed on some medium navy cs and then used white pigment ink spread lightly over the top of the raised areas.  Die cut two snowflakes and over lapped the silver on the white for a shadow effect.  Mounted this on a darker navy base and added more little snowflakes.  Purposely left off a sentiment so I can use it for a winter birthday or Christmas.

I am entering this at Die Cut Divas "anything goes" challenge as I used both die cuts and an embossing folder.

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CASEing MICHELLE

Our current challenge at A Blog Named Hero is to CASE a favorite card of the past year.  I chose a card by Michelle Lupton - actually her card is a CASE of a card by Lydia - but I didn't realize this until I had my card all finished and just decided to go with it anyway.  I used a different stamp, sentiment, colors, card base color and stamped on vellum instead of cardstock in my colored part.  I also added sequins. 

 

The stamp set is the Togetherness Flower Bouquet which I stamped on a cream cs base and then again on a piece of vellum.  After coloring the flowers with alcohol markers, I added a piece of Stick It to the back of vellum, trimmed it down, matched it up with the flower on the card base and adhered.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set as the flower.

I'm sure you have a favorite card that will inspire you to CASE it using Hero Arts products and enter here. You'll have a chance to win one of two gift cards from Hero Arts.

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TIC TAC TOE CHALLENGE #94

This week's Tic Tac Toe Challenge comes from the very creative Joanne.  I chose across the bottom - sparkle, fun fold and holly.  I am also entering my card at Festive Friday - red, green and holly.

A friend sent me a card recently using this fun fold and just had to give it a try.  It's called a center step fold and here's a video if you'd like to have a go.  My base card measures 4.25x11 and I covered it with pp.  After I finished the folding, I added the die cut glitter paper holly and berries.  Stamped a sentiment and done.

There are many fun ways to design a card for this week's challenge so be sure to have a go.

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CHRISTMAS CARD CHALLENGE WITH MICHELLE LUPTON

For the past few years, I have played along with Michelle Lupton and her "Challenge Me a Christmas Card."  This year she has changed it up and we are doing "CASE Me a Christmas Card".  I could CASE any card she has made - didn't have to be a Christmas card.  

I loved the ink blended blue background with the gold border and the sentiment in the center.

  

After embossing the poinsettia border in rose gold ep, I ink blended the background with chipped sapphire, stormy weather and a bit of black soot DO inks.  Stamped the sentiment in the center and added a rose gold metallic frame. 

The card of mine that Michelle CASED to create a Christmas card is here - be sure to check it out.

EDIT:  Don't know how I made such a huge mistake, but the card I CASED was not made by Michelle - and I have no clue whose card it is as I can't read the watermark/signature - many apologies to Michelle and to the creator of the card I used for my post.

Thanks for stopping by today - Holiday Hugs,

 

 

A POINSETTIA AND A STOCKING

Just quickly posting cards for two challenges - The Flower Challenge (add embellishments) and Christmas Kickstart ('Twas the night before Christmas).

 

I made this card design in several different colors, but this one in kraft and peach is my favorite.  The poinsettia is from Altenew and was colored with copics.  Die cut the background with Spellbinders hemstitch die and then spattered it with gold paint.  Gold thread behind the popped up flower and gold seed beads in the flower center are my embellishments.

My stocking ("the stocking were hung...") is a gift card holder -  just used some patterned paper and stitched it all together.  I think the die is from Memory Box (retired).

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PINK AND RED POINSETTIA

Have a card that really shines today for the Hero Arts glitter and sparkle challenge - unfortunately getting shine to show up in a photo is nearly impossible for me. 

I first created an alcohol inked background in pinks with a little red on yupo paper and mounted it on a white card base.  Then created another piece of yupo using more AI reds and also a piece with green inks.  Die cut the poinsettia and leaves along with some "berries", assembled on my background and done.

There's still time to create a card with glitter or sparkle for this month's challenge and a chance to win one of two gift vouchers from Hero Arts - hope to see you in the gallery!

 

 

 

GINA K CHALLENGES

 I have rather become addicted to tic-tac-toe challenges lately and Gina K's monthly challenge has a fun one up for the month.  ModSquad's current challenge (white and bright) also features Gina K. - so had a go with combining the two.

Since ModSquad wanted only white embossing and one color, I began by white embossing some GK leaves on a greenish textured card - I like the way the texture gives the leaves a rather lacy look.  Then I used the GK board (middle row across (heat embossing, square, shaker) to create the rest of the card.  After I finished the shaker part, I mounted it all on a white card base and added some more sequins on the background along with the sentiment.  I made it a Christmas card since I'm still in need of a few more.

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GOLDEN TREES

Have one card for two challenges today - Festive Friday (snowflakes, trees, fun fold and metallics) and The Paper Players tic tac toe board (middle down - die cut, fun fold and embellishments).

I began by making the center step fold card on a piece of kraft cs - then adding the gold snowflake pp for the background.  Die cut and adhered the gold metallic trees and stamped the sentiment.  Added a few gold sequins to the centers of the snowflakes and done.

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