Krafty Chicks challenge #733 - Christmas

Good morning lovely friends.  I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week so far.  It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week it's Week 2 which means that I am your hostess and our theme as always is 'Christmas', so grab your festive supplies and come join in the fun with us.  

I recently got new to me stamps & dies from Dies to Die For in one of their fab offer sections and was itching to use this cute set.  I love how you can make cute scenes with it and the critters are adorable.  I hope you like it.  

Here is my card:

A closer look at the critters:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the images onto alcohol marker friendly card and coloured them with Promarkers.  I used the matching dies to cut them out.  I cut a piece of white card 4" x 5 1/4" and ink blended some light blue inks on about 2/3rds of the panel, leaving the bottom white.  I splattered some white gouache over the background to give the look of snow.  I also did my inside panel but only ink blended at the top but also did some splatter with the white gouache.  Once the panels were dry I took a torn edge die and cut them both out with the second to largest die.  I stamped my sentiment onto a white piece of card and fussy cut it out as I didn't know if it would stamp properly directly onto my background and I didn't want to risk ruining it.  I also stamped some musical notes in black ink.  I added my images to the bottom of the panel and the sentiment to the top of the panel, all with foam squares.  The panel was then adhered to the card base with foam tape.  For the inside I took my second panel and stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink and added a tiny mouse image and 2 musical notes in the left lower corner.  I added this to the card base with double sided tape.  A really sweet card and I think I will be using this set a lot this year.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - make your mark

As You Like It challenge - layered or flat (I love adding foam squares for some extra dimension so would choose layered)

Aud Sentiments challenge - tags and/or holidays + sentiment

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG must include an animal

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Get Creative challenge - inspired by a book (A Christmas Carol)

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG/autumn golds & browns

Inkspirational challenge - make your mark

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

My Time To Craft challenge - add texture (splatter in background with white gouache)

Peace on Earth Christmas challenge - anything Christmas themed optional inspiration board

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - stamp it

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - 4 legged friends

Stamping Sensations challenge - ATG option animal magic

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional twist create your own background

We Love Stamping challenge - hand coloured image

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'Christmas' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori and also our guest designer for September Wendy.    

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Mama Elephant - let's go caroling stamp & die set

Creative Craft Products - A2 layering nested torn edge dies

Promarkers

Gina K Designs - ink pads - sea glass and ocean mist

Winsor & Newton - permanent white gouache

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card (store now closed)

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

30th Anniversary card

Hello again friends; I hope the start of the week has been good for you.  I'm back to share the card I made for hubby to celebrate our recent 30th Pearl anniversary.  I cannot believe where the last 30 years have gone; although I think I deserve a medal for putting up with him for so long lol!  

Here is my card:

this one shows the glittery card better:

My husband is not really into fussy cards so decided to buy a die/stamp set to cut out the 30 and save myself the stress of trying to make something elaborate from scratch.  I die cut the base from navy card and then the 30 was die cut from a pearl glittery card that I've had in my stash for years.  The sentiment was also from the same set and I heat embossed it on the navy card with a glittery powder.  The husband word was die cut in the pearl card and also a dark red which was ever so slightly off set.  The hearts were also cut from the same dark red card.  The finished card is very dimensional as the 30 was added with foam squares along with the sentiment and hearts.  I think the finished result is perfect for my husband.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Color Hues challenge - merlot and navy

Moving Along with the Times challenge - wedding/anniversary

Shopping Our Stash challenge - celebrating by the numbers

Addicted to Stamps and More challenge - any occasion

Dream Valley challenge - dies and/or punches

Thanks for stopping by; I really appreciate all your comments and your continued support.  

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Creative Craft Products - numbers galore: flirty 30

Heffy Doodle - husband die cut

MFT - tag builder blueprints 6

card stock from my stash

Papermania - tinsel snowflake embossing powder