Merry Christmas

Working on some Christmas Cards and once again, the various Challenge Blogs provide lots of inspiration!

I am loving working with these really cute Gnome stamps!

  

Gnomes were stamped with StazOn and hand coloured with copics.  Backgrounds were hand blended with Distress Inks and cut out with Spellbinders deckle edge dies, then mounted onto white leathergrain cardbase.

Hero Arts 'Merry' Sentiment die cut twice & layered, then 'christmas' stamped directly onto cardbase with StazOn black ink.

I am pleased with how this little experiment of a card worked out.  Now to work out who to give them to ..... they need to be extra special recipients LOL  and I need to work on some more!

Linking With the following challenges:

Merry Little Christmas Challenge - #47 - anything goes

Christmas with the Cuties #65 - anything cute

ABC Christmas Challenges W &/or X - Xtra Special

Items Used

Cardstock:  White Leathergrain cardstock (BlueEdge Crafts)

Inks:  StazOn black, Distress Inks, Copics

Stamps:  HeroArts 'Merry & Bright', Stampendous 'Holiday Gnomes'

Tools:  Spellbinders Deckle edge dies

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Thinking of You

Another sympathy card for my friends.

Randomly stamped flowers on cardbase with VersaMark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  Stamped a white card topper with two step stamps from SU Heartfelt Thanks.  Sentiment is from Ultimate Crafts Ooh LaLa - Happy Lives.

Items Used

Cardstock:  SU Cardstock

Inks:  SU Cameo Coral & Olive Green (I think), VersaMark, StazOn Black

Stamps:  Stampin' Up Heartfelt Thanks & Ultimate Crafts Ooh La La - Happy Lives

Tools:  Edge Distresser

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Heartfelt Sympathy

Another Sympathy card - this one for a friend to give 

Sandy coloured Cardbase was randomly stamped with flowers from Stampin' Up Heartfelt Thanks, once with VersaMark then again with SU Really Rust.  White Card topper two step stamped with Stampin' Up Really Rust & StazOn black.  Edges distressed, then a ribbon tied up then mounted onto darker brown cardstock, then layered onto front of card.  Sentiment stamped with StazOn black.

A fairly monotone card ..... shades of brown, with simple black & white features/details added.

Linking With the following challenges:

Color My Heart Color Dare: shades of brown

AAA Challenge #227 Anything Goes

ITEMS USED

Cardstock:  SU Cardstock

Inks:  SU Really Rust, VersaMark, StazOn Black

Stamps:  Stampin' Up Heartfelt Thanks & paperCraft sentiments

Tools:  Edge Distresser

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.