Krafty Chicks challenge #742 - 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.  This week is Week 2 and as always the theme is 'Christmas' and I am your hostess.  We want to see all your festive creations this week, and as the big day is not that far away now I'm sure we will have lots of entries.  We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us. 

I wanted to make a pink Christmas card this week, as I haven't made one yet, and I think they look so pretty.  I went fairly clean and simple once again and my card took no time at all to complete.  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A close up of the cute die cuts:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4"; I took a pink ink pad and smooshed some ink onto the top centre portion of the panel.  I also added some pink ink splatter and white gouache splatter for some extra interest.  I had some die cuts ready cut and left over from last year so decided to grab them and use them up.  I chose 2 houses, 1 tree and a cute tiny snowman.  I added 3 layers to each and adhered them together with liquid glue.  Using a t-square ruler I placed them onto the panel with liquid glue.  I stamped a sentiment in the same pink ink and die cut it out with a sentiment strip die.  I added this with foam squares below the houses.  I finished off with a few pink pearls.  The panel was added to a pink card base (for a change) with foam tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and ink smooshed along the bottom of the panel.  I added one house and a snowman in the left bottom corner and stamped a sentiment in black ink.  The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  A really simple card but the pink colour along with the white die cuts really packs a punch I think. 

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

The 12 months of Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes optional all stitched up

Addicted to CAS challenge - snow

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - make your mark (ink smooshed my background)

Allsorts challenge - Christmas

Alphabet challenge - Q for quick & easy

Aud Sentiments challenge - glitter and/or Christmas + sentiment

Christmas BINGO challenge - column I - make your own background, free, clean & simple, smooshing

Christmas with the Cuties challenge - Christmas pinks

Creative Friday challenge - Christmas

Daisy Chain challenge - Christmas and/or winter

Die Cut Divas challenge - any holiday of the year (Christmas)

Incy Wincy Designs challenge - ATG optional theme: Christmas card with handmade background (ink smooshed my background)

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Simply Clean and Simple challenge - anything CAS goes optional theme: Christmas is coming

The Dream Factory challenge - anything goes Christmas optional theme: funny cards

Unicorn challenge - Christmas and/or winter

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.  

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - winter wonderland die set

Gina K Designs - innocent pink ink pad

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips dies

MFT - itty bitty holiday clear stamp - retired

Personal Impressions/Paula Pascual - Christmas messages clear stamp - retired

Spellbinders - fashion bella color essential pearl dots

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card - currently not available

Winsor & Newton - permanent white gouache

Pink card from stash

Krafty Chicks challenge #720 - Christmas

Good morning lovely friends.  Firstly apologies for the lack of posts this week; it's been a bit of a busy week so crafting has taken a back seat.  However as it's Thursday it that means it's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge.  We are now on Week 2 which means I'm your hostess and our theme as always is 'Christmas', so grab your festive supplies and join in the fun with us. 

My card was inspired by one that Bev from Uniko Stamps made, although I embellished mine a bit more.  I wanted to make something in non-traditional colours for a change so went for a bright rainbow colour scheme. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at my 'tree':

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the sentiments in rainbow colours starting with red and working my way down to green and then fussy cut them out into strips.  I die cut a star from pink card and a square shape from blue card.  I wanted to emboss my background so cut a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and ran it through my intri-cut machine with a Christmas tile embossing folder.  I thought the three looked a little lost on the background so cut a rectangle of vellum to add some interest and to soften the background.  I added the strips onto the vellum with foam tape to resemble a tree shape.  The embossed panel was added to my card base with double sided tape and the vellum rectangle was added with liquid glue.  I finished off with a few clear sequins.  For the inside I cut another white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and added a strip of embossed card to the very bottom and stamped the sentiment in black ink in the centre of the panel.  At the last moment I decided to add a pink star overlapping the embossed strip.  A fun card and I think it turned out super cute.  I hope you like it too. 

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

As You Like It challenge - with or without words (I always put a sentiment on the front of my card, even if it's only happy birthday and I don't think it looks finished without one)

Can You Handle The Pressure challenge - ATG with a twist of beach

CAS on Friday challenge - embossing

Colorful Options challenge - aqua or rainbow colours

Craft Rocket challenge - no design papers

Creative Inspirations challenge - Christmas in June 

Dream Valley challenge - summer colours

Moving Along With The Times challenge - early Christmas

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Peace On Earth Christmas challenge - anything Christmas themed 

Sparkles Christmas challenge - use dies

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - bright and cheerful

The Holly & Ivy Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Unicorn challenge - embossing

Word Power challenge - make the sentiment the focus of your card

 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 Rachelle.  

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Uniko Stamps - simply said blocks Christmas

Spellbinders - Christmas tile embossing folder

Spellbinders - essential rectangles (to cut the vellum)

MFT - blueprints 18 (for the star) - retired 

Paula Pascual - Christmas messages for inside sentiment - no longer available

Gina K Designs - ink pads - red hot, tangerine twist, wild dandelion, grass green

Gina K Designs - clear quartz solid sequins

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Stampin' Up! - card stock vellum - no longer available

pink and blue card from scraps bin

Christmas Kickstart challenge #87 - it's a gift

Good morning lovely friends; I hope you are doing ok and having a good start to your week.  I am honoured to be a guest elf over at the Christmas Kickstart challenge this month and the theme is 'it's a gift'.  I am so happy to be building up my stash of Christmas cards nice and early this year after only making about 6 in total last year.  

For my card today I grabbed another LOTV image as they are so cute but always lovely to colour.  I used a simple layout but one that I think is pleasing to the eye.  

Here is my card:

A close up of the image:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the cute reindeer image onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured him with Promarkers and added some highlights with a white gel pen.  I was feeling too lazy to fussy cut him out so just cut a rectangle which I matted onto red card.  I wrapped some red twine around the panel and tied it into a bow and then stamped my sentiment below it with black ink.  For my background I used a background stamp which I white heat embossed.  The embossing was a little patchy but I think it gave it a cool distressed feel.  I decided to ink blend some brown ink over the embossing to colour coordinate with my reindeer.  I die cut this panel using a scalloped die and again matted it onto red card.  The background panel was added to my card base with double sided tape and the image panel was added with foam squares.  I didn't add any embellishments as I liked it as it was.  For the inside I cut a white panel and matted it onto red card.  I stamped the sentiment in black ink and stamped the reindeer at the bottom in brown ink.  I adhered this panel to the card base with double sided tape.  A fairly simple card but I think it looks adorable.  

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - any occasion

Allsorts challenge - lots of layers

Alphabet challenge - E is for embossing (my background is heat embossed)

As You Like It challenge - embossing wet/heat or dry (I love the look of heat embossing but don't do it very often as I always seem to mess it up.  I embossed my BG on this card and it looks decidedly distressed but I think it works. I need to practice more!

CRAFT challenge - Christmas

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG must include an animal

Creative Inspirations challenge - Christmas in June

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG/tropical vibes

Jingle Belles challenge - tic tac toe (embossing/red or green/die cuts)

Moving Along With The Times challenge - early Christmas

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Peace on Earth Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

The Holly & Ivy Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Try It On Tuesday challenge - emboss it (I heat embossed my background)

Unicorn challenge - embossing (I heat embossed my background)

I hope you can join in with the challenge; I can't wait to see your creations in the linky.  Jo does a great job running the blog singlehandedly (with just her guest elves) so please pop over and check out her gorgeous card and leave her some love too.  

I'll be back tomorrow with the final card for the Mini Card challenge IG Hop so if you have time please pop back and check it out.  Until then enjoy the rest of your day. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

LOTV - penguins & reindeer A5 stamp set

Promarkers

Gina K Designs - close knit BG stamp

Gina K Designs - ink pads - kraft and warm cocoa

MFT - blueprints 27 (for scalloped die)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - feeling sentimental (for outside sentiment) - retired

Paula Pascual - Christmas messages (for inside sentiment) - retired

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

WOW - opaque bright white super fine embossing powder

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

red card and twine from stash

Krafty Chicks challenge #715 - Christmas

Good morning lovely friends; I hope you're having a brilliant week so far.  Well the weather here has 

been glorious this week so I've nothing to complain about lol!  I even have an (almost) empty washing basket - which makes me very happy!  

It's the start of a brand new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week is Week 2 and as always I am the hostess.  For this week's challenge it's all about Christmas so grab your festive supplies and beat the rush in December.

I decided to dig out an old wood rubber stamp and show it some love.  I have a drawer full and they are so lovely that I feel bad neglecting them.  I must start making an effort to use them in the coming weeks.  

Here is my card:

A close up of the image:

I decorated the inside (not sure why the gold edge looks so wonky, it doesn't look like that in real life):

I began by stamping the image onto alcohol marker friendly card using memento ink and used my Promarkers to colour it.  I have also rediscovered my 'puffy stuff' so added that to the bottom of the image to mimic snow.  It's pretty cool stuff, it goes on like a thick paint but when you heat it with your heat tool it puffs up and hardens.  I die cut the image with a circle die and used the larger size to make a frame with gold mirror card.  I also die cut a topper die so that it would look like a bauble which was adhered to the circles with liquid glue. I stamped a simple sentiment in black ink onto the white circle.  I used some old 6x6 papers to create my background and added some thin strips of the gold card to cover the joins.  I added foam tape behind the patterned paper and added it to my card base.  The bauble was then also adhered with foam tape (I also added a thin sliver of foam tape behind the topper 'string').  I didn't add any extra bling as there was lots of shine from the mirror card.  For the inside I added a thick strip of the green paper, a small strip of the red paper and a thin strip of the gold card at the bottom of my panel.  I then stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink.  This panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  A fairly simple card but I think it looks really cute.  

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - Christmas

As You Like It challenge - soft or bold colours (I prefer bold colours especially when colouring an image as I'm a bit too heavy handed to use soft colours!)

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG must include an animal

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Cut It Up challenge - add a sentiment

Incy Wincy Designs challenge - spring and/or animals

Inkspirational challenge - seasonal (winter)

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Peace on Earth challenge - anything Christmas themed

Pearly Sparkles challenge - cats and dogs

Penny Black Saturday challenge - ATG option pastel colours

PINspirational challenge - designer or patterned paper

Simply Create Too challenge - add an animal

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - use die cuts

Sweet Stampin' challenge - animals 

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 Rachelle, who is joining us again this month. 

Enjoy the rest of your day and thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Penny Black Stamps - Wishing (2998H)

Gina K Designs - holiday toppers dies

Spellbinders - standard circles large dies

Inkylicious - fluffy puffy stuff 

My Mind's Eye - Be Merry 6x6 paper pad

Personal Impressions - Big Christmas Essentials stamp set

Personal Impressions (Paula Pascual) - Christmas messages stamp set (for inside sentiment)

Promarkers

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

gold mirror card from stash

Krafty Chicks challenge #711 - Christmas

Hello friends; I hope you're having a great week.  I'm here today to share my DT card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge.  As we are on Week 2 we are looking for all your Christmas or holiday themed creations.  

I went for a traditional style card this time and used some silhouette stamps against an ink blended background.  Here is my card:

a closer look at my scene:

I decorated the inside as always:

I began by cutting my panel of white card to 4" x 5 1/4" (although I did trim it down slightly later on).  I created some masks for the moon and under the trees/houses so that they would remain white (to create the curved edge I traced along the edge of the stamp so that my mask would match perfectly).  I took 4 ink colours and created my ink blended night sky.  Once the blend has dried a little I removed the masks.   I then took the silhouette stamps and stamped them multiple times (using my Misti) with black ink.  I took the sentiments from the same stamp set and also stamped them in black ink more towards the right hand side of the white portion of the card.  I added some white highlights to my Santa & sleigh and also some snow (or stars) to the background with a white gelly roll pen.  I added the white panel to a black mat with double sided tape and then added this to the card blank with foam tape.  For the inside I stamped the trees/houses border at the very bottom of my panel and added a sentiment in black ink.  Again this was matted with a black panel and added to my card base with double sided tape.  I'm really happy with my ink blending and really pleased with the finished card.  I hope you like it too.  

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

AAA Colourful challenge - mood board

ABC Christmas challenge - I is for inky (I ink blended my background)

Christmas Craft Creations challenge - non traditional colours

Christmas Crafts All Year Around challenge - Santa, gnomes or elves

Christmas Kickstart challenge - Santa and his sidekicks

CRAFT challenge - inspired by a movie (Santa Claus the movie)

Girlz Creative Christmas challenge - no red

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Peace on Earth Christmas challenge - mood board or anything Christmas goes

Sparkles Christmas challenge - non traditional colours

The Holly & The Ivy challenge - anything Christmas goes

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 April, Rachelle. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - holiday silhouettes stamp set

Gina K Designs - ink pads - plum punch, tranquil teal, blue denim, in the navy

Gina K Designs - masking magic sheets

Spellbinders - standard circles large dies (for moon mask)

Paula Pascual - Christmas messages (for inside sentiment)

Versafine - onyx black ink

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm white silky smooth card

Krafty Chicks challenge #707 Christmas

Good Morning lovely friends.  I'm back again today to share my card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge and this week is all about Christmas.  So grab your Christmas stamps, dies, papers etc and join in the fun with us. 

I bought some new stamps recently from LOTV as they've been having a fab offer and all their polymer stamp sets were only £10 - it would have been rude not to get some lol!  One of the sets I got was Christmas Mugs so I thought I would use one of the images for my card.  I asked my son to choose the image and he picked the cute snowman so here is my card:

a closer look at the cute image:

I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the image with alcohol marker friendly ink and coloured it with Promarkers.  I also added some white highlights with a gel pen.  I decided I wanted to keep my card as one layer so stamped the image again onto masking paper and made a mask to cover my coloured image.  I then ink blended around the image with a light blue ink and also added some stencilled stars behind the mug.  Below the image I ink blended some very light grey ink to ground the image.  I cut out the panel with a scalloped rectangle and added it to my card base with foam tape.  I stamped a sentiment with black ink and cut it out with a banner die.  I also cut a slightly larger banner from a light blue card and layered them together.  This was added to the top right corner with liquid glue.  I didn't add any embellishments as I liked it as it was.  For the inside I cut another scalloped rectangle, stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink and partially stamped the image at the bottom in a light grey ink.  I applied the mask and lightly inked with blue ink around the image.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.   I'm really happy with how this card turned out and cannot wait to ink up all the other mugs.  

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

Christmas With The Cuties challenge - Santa and/or snowman

CRAFT challenge - Christmas

Crafts Galore Encore challenge - ATG

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - ATG

Creative Inspirations challenge - ATG

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option love/romance

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas Goes

Peace On Earth Christmas challenge - anything Christmas themed

Shopping Our Stash challenge - round and round (dots on my mug and background) 13 max

Stencil Fun challenge - must use a stencil option Easter/spring

The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge - anything Christmas goes

The Male Room challenge - food and drink

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 Shirley, who is joining us for March. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

LOTV - Christmas Mugs A5 stamp set

MFT - blueprints 27 (for scalloped rectangle and banner dies)

MFT - itty bitty holiday stamp set

Funky Fossil Designs - snow is falling stencil

Gina K Designs - ink pads - soft stone & sea glass

Gina K Designs - masking magic sheets

Paula Pascual - Christmas messages stamp set (for inside greeting)

Promarkers

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card (for my card base)

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Sakura - no. 10 white gelly roll pen

Winter Wonderland IG Hop - Week 5

Hello friends and happy hump day.  I hope you've had a great day so far.  It's Wednesday so it's time for this week's instalment of the Winter Wonderland IG Hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  This is technically the last week of the hop but don't worry as we have an extra bonus week for you next week!  Each Wednesday we are sharing our creations with a winter theme. 

This week is Week 5 and our theme is plaid poinsettia.  Now the brief was you can make something that includes a poinsettia or include some plaid or both.  I decided to use both.  Here is my card:

A close up of my poinsettia:

I decorated the inside as usual:

here is what the paper looked before and after inking:

I began by trying to find some plaid patterned paper, which was not easy.  I eventually found one but it was a beige/neutral colour.  I decided to ink swipe onto the paper with a red ink pad to make it the colour I wanted.  I think it turned out really good and just what I was looking for.  I then die cut my poinsettia; one large layer and 2 smaller layers, plus a few leaves from dark green card and the centre from gold mirri card; I then added gold pearls onto the centre.  I used foam squares to attach all the layers so it ended up being very dimensional.  I cut a piece of white card to a 3 3/4" x 5" panel and added a strip of red spotted paper and a smaller strip of the gold mirri card to the left hand side.  I adhered the leaves with liquid glue and stamped my sentiment in black ink.  I then added the poinsettia with liquid glue over the leaves.  For a final touch I added some gold splatter over the entire card panel.  The panel was then attached to my A2 card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I added another strip of spotty paper and gold mirri card and as I had one poinsettia left over I cut it up and layered it into the bottom left corner.  I stamped a sentiment in black ink.  A really dimensional and shimmery card in real life and I'm really happy with it.  

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

Crafter's Cafe challenge - feminine

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - dots and/or stripes

Double D challenge - stripes and/or dots

Inkspirational challenge - seasonal (obviously I've gone for Christmas again)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Time Out challenge - winter/holiday

Try It On challenge - traditional Christmas

Use Your Stuff challenge - shine bright (mirri card, gold pearls, gold splatter)

We hope you will be able to join us over on Instagram and follow the hop.  Please use the hashtag #winterwonderlandcardhop2023 to find all of our creations and we will be able to find yours if you feel inspired to join in.  

Enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by.  

Love and hugs, 

  

card ingredients:

MFT - all star high top die-namics

Gina K Designs - autumn splendor paper pack

Gina K Designs - red hot ink pad

Gina K Designs - black, gold & silver pearl mix

Personal Impressions - big Christmas essentials (for outside sentiment)

Personal Impressions (Paula Pascual) - Christmas messages (for inside sentiment)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card

Echo Park - dots & stripes (Valentine) for spotty paper

Gansai Tambi - starry colours palette (for gold splatter)

green card & mirri card from scrap box