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

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Naughty or Nice?

Working on my Christmas Card stash .....

I was quite taken with a card by Karen McKibbin I saw on the Paper Rose Blog - so I thought I would try a 'new to me' technique with Acetate.

I stamped and coloured in a Christmas Tree, then cut out two trees with the matching dies and layered the two trees together.

I stamped some 'pine branches' on spare cardstock and used them for the top and bottom.

I attached some Go Press Foil on the top & bottom edges using double sided tape, then attached them to the acetate.  For the inside of the card, I embossed some white cardstock with 'Swiss Dots' embossing folder, the very first embossing folder I bought way back when I got my Cuttlebug.

I highlighted the tree with some kindy glitz and Dimensional Magic, then added the sentiments using 3d foam.

It was quite a challenge making up this card, and I would like to make another one, but this time take a bit more care with my measurements LOL

Linking with:

ABC Christmas Challenge "S or T" - T for Tree

Time Out Challenges #223 Photo Inspiration 'Christmas Tree'

Winter Wonderland Christmas Animals

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.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I Finally got some inspiration and motivation (at the same time) to make some Christmas Cards ..... cruising around the various Challenge blogs I follow and having a new toy to play with, certainly helped!

So, first up is a card inspired by a sketch on Freshly Made Sketches #515

I ended up not including a sentiment, as no matter which one I used, I didn't think it looked right.

LOTV digital image 'Jingle Owl the Way', printed & foiled, then hand coloured with Copics and embellished with Kindy Glitz/Stickles.  Mounted with 3D foam dots onto white cardstock embossed with Cuttlebug musical notes folder and Christmas DSP from my stash - all mounted on Red, Leathergrain cardstock.

Linking this card with As You Like it Challenge: Favourite Christmas Embellishment with my FAVE embellishment for anything really being the Kindy Glitz/Stickles. 

Next up, a card for Winter Wonderland - Anything Goes

This is a new 'circle flip' card base from Blue Edge Crafts (well new for me!)

'Tis the Season to Sparkle' foiled with green and placed on the circle opening, which just happened to fit the Spellbinders nesting circle dies I have !

Merry Christmas foiled in Red, cut out with Spellbinder circle dies, then mounted with double sided tape.  The Burgundy Bazzill cardstock on the front circle and the striped DSP I have had in my stash for absolutely AGES!  It is so good to use it up!

I was on a roll, so I made another one with the sentiments being flipped - Merry Christmas on the front, and Tis the Season to Sparkle on the inside - this time foiled with Gold (I think this is my fave :) ).

Linking these projects with:

NBUS #33 (never before used schtuff)  I have had these digital sentiments for quite a few years and now I have finally got around to using them!

Cut it Up Challenge #240 - Holiday cards

Well, that's it from me for now .......... more cards to come soon!