Joy - Peace - Love

It's decidedly not very Christmassy here in Adelaide today ..... lots of rain and thunder & lightning ..... the last thing our river system needs right now.

 

Here is another of my latest Christmas Cards to be sent out.  Final food shopping has been done and I hope I don't have to go out to the shops again until after Christmas Day/Boxing Day.

 

 

Once again, the Christmas Craft Creations current Challenge theme of 'Gnomes' provided a starting point for my card.  

 

 

The Sparkles Christmas Challenge of 'non traditional colours' influenced my colouring and cardstock choices.

 

I stamped one of the Gnome images from Stampendous Holiday Gnomes and hand coloured with copics, then die cut twice and layered.  

 

I then stamped the sentiment repeatedly and multiple times to form a backdrop and mounted die cut image with foam dots and some blingy holographic snowflake stickers added straight onto cardbase.  Using the Couture Creations Precision Stamp Press made easy work of stamping the sentiments to get a nice clean impression before repositioning the cardstock for the next level.  This makes for a 'non-bulky' card that is great for putting in the mail.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy, Safe & Prosperous New Year.

Cheers!

Linking With the following challenges:

Christmas Craft Creations - December - Gnomes

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #143 - Non Traditional Christmas Colours

Items Used

Cardstock:  210gsm white cardstock, 300gsm Orange Cardstock

Inks:  Versafine Claire, Copics

Stamps:  Stampendous Holiday Gnomes

Tools: Cuttlebug, Precision Stamp Press

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.

Be Merry

It's beginning to feel like Christmas now - just the last lot of Christmas Cards to send out and some final food shopping on Wednesday, and I am done!  Looking forward to celebrating with family on Christmas Eve.

 

  

 

The Christmas Craft Creations current Challenge theme is 'Gnomes' which gave me the starting point for my card.  

 

 

The Perfectly CAS style (using 1/3rd or less) is a challenge for me and I hope I have pulled it off.  'Happy Holidays' is the theme for Cupcake Inspirations 

 

I stamped one of the Gnome images from Stampendous Holiday Gnomes and hand coloured with copics, then die cut twice and layered.  Gold cross grain ribbon was attached to card topper, image placed on top with foam dots and some blingy holographic snowflake stickers added. Card topper was then mounted onto dark blue cardstock.

 

 

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy, Safe & Prosperous New Year.

Cheers!

Linking With the following challenges:

Christmas Craft Creations - December: Gnomes

Perfectly CAS - #34 Christmas

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #559 - Happy Holidays

Items Used

Cardstock:  white, blue

Inks: Copics, Versafine Claire

Stamps:  Stampendous Holiday Gnomes

Tools: Cuttlebug

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.

Deck the Halls .....

with boughs of holly, fa la la la la .......

 

Another Christmas Card, surprise, surprise!  :)  

 

I ordered a stamp & die set (more of that to come later) from Uniquely Creative, an online craft store right here in Adelaide!  I like to support local where I can. There was a stencil included as a 'thank you' so I just HAD to have a play.

 

I grabbed a couple of inks and daubers and placed the stencil on the left hand side of a card topper.  I quickly realised that my daubers were way too big, so I settled on a 'rustic' finish.  To cover up an 'oopsy' I inked up the edges of the topper with both the brown & the red  Cardtopper is 210gsm, layered onto 250gsm cardbase (White) from Blue Edge Crafts, another local Adelaide online craft store.

 

The large snowflake was diecut from silver foiled cardstock, the centre circle was cut then the sentiment was stamped with Versafine Black Onyx & clear heat embossed.  The snowflake was mounted to the card topper, with the sentiment raised on 3D foam.  Additional holly was stamped, heat embossed and coloured in, then mounted onto circle.

I am normally a 'gold' person, but I quite like the silver snowflake on this card!  The other colours used were inspired by the Card Concept challenge

 

Linking With the following challenges:

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #69 - anything Christmas

The Card Concept #185 - Christmas Greetings

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges #563 -  last minute Christmas

Merry Little Christmas Blog Challenge #47 - anything Christmas goes (oops too late!)

Winter Wonderland - anything Christmas goes

 

Items Used

Cardstock:  White 210gm & 250gsm

Inks:  Distress Inks Mowed Lawn, Candied Apple, SU Chocolate Chip, Versafine Onyx

Stamps/Dies:  Lawn Fawn Magic Holiday

Tools:  Cuttlebug

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.

Merry Christmas

not long to go now ............. and it will be Christmas Day!

Today's card is a CAS card ... well, CAS for me LOL

Two Gingerbread Characters stamped with StazOn, coloured in with Copics and highlighted with Kindy Glitz & scattered stars.

I spied the Gingerbread people in the background of the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge and it fits in with the current AAA Cards Challenge :)

 

The 'Merry Christmas' sentiment is from an unknown Stampin Up set.  I bought a heap of loose SU stamps from Marketplace.  If anyone can let me know which set it belongs to, that would be great!

Linking With the following challenges:

AAA Cards - Game #229 - small & few & baked goods

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog #47 - Anything Goes

CAS on Friday - #245 - Greeting Card

Peace on Earth Christmas - Photo Board

Items Used

Cardstock:  200gsm white cardstock

Inks:  StazOn

Stamps:  Stampin Up 'Merry Christmas', Gingerbreads unknown brand

Tools:  Copics

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.