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

Winter Wonderland IG Hop - Week 3

Happy Hump Day friends; I hope you're having a great week so far.  I'm back with Week 3 of the Winter Wonderland IG Hop which has been organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  Each Wednesday in November we will be sharing our cards with a winter theme.  

This week is a fun one - pink Christmas!  I love traditional colours for Christmas but it's nice to step out of our comfort zone from time to time and have a play with different colour schemes.  I had lots of ideas for my make this week but finally settled on CAS and super cute!  Here is my card:

a close up of my cute penguin:

I also decorated the inside:

I used mostly Promarkers with a couple of Tri-blend markers:

I began by stamping the cute penguin image with memento tuxedo black ink and coloured it with mostly Promarkers but I did use 2 x Spectrum Noir tri-blend markers too (I'm actually liking these pens a lot as they take away the stress of colour blending as there are 3 colours in each pen).  I don't have the coordinating dies so fussy cut him out and put him to one side.  I then cut a white panel of card 3 3/4" x 5" and used a stencil and some pink ink to make my background.  I found some hot pink card in my scrap bin and used that as my mat layer behind my white panel.  I cut a 2 1/2" strip of the hot pink card and used a scalloped edge die to cut a decorative border on the top and bottom.   I then added a white strip on top with double sided tape.  Before adding to the card panel I stamped my sentiment.  This was then adhered to the card panel with double sided tape.  The penguin was added with foam squares and I added 5 small pink pearls as a finishing touch.  I did forget to add some white gel pen highlights but I'll do that before I give the card to someone.  The panel was then added to a white card blank with foam tape.  I decorated the inside in my usual way - a small strip of the stencilled card added to the bottom and a sentiment stamped in black ink.  A really sweet card and I think once you've settled on the idea it's really easy to mass produce.

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

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG include an animal

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - dots and/or stripes

Creative Inspirations challenge - contemporary Christmas colours

Creative Moments challenge - winter

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Daisy Chain challenge - Christmas/winter

Cut it Up challenge - layer it up (must use a die cut)

Day of the Month Card Club challenge - candy day

Double D challenge - stripes and/or dots

Dream Valley challenge - occasions other than birthday

Krafty Chicks challenge - Christmas

Moving Along with the Times challenge - Christmas animals

Pearly Sparkles challenge - Christmas/winter

Stamping Sensations challenge - get ready for Christmas

Stencil Fun challenge - anything stencil goes - option leaves

Unicorn challenge - Christmas

We Love Stamping challenge - Christmas characters

Wow lots of Christmas themed challenges around at the moment (understandably)!  I believe I checked all the rules but if I've entered too many challenges and broken your rules I apologise and just delete me.

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 if you decide to join in too we will be able to find yours too.  

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

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

MFT - sweet holiday penguins

MFT - diagonal stripes stencil

Clearly Besotted Stamps - scalloped edges die collection

Concord & 9th - Boughs and holly stamp (for sentiment)

Gina K Designs - bubblegum pink ink pad

Gina K Designs - pearl mix rainbow

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm white smooth card 

pink card from scrap bin

Promarkers & Spectrum Noir tri-blend markers

Paula Pascal - Christmas message (inside sentiment) (I've seen it on eBay)

Versafine onyx black ink pad

Memento tuxedo black ink pad

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Winter Wonderland IG Hop - Week 2

Hello again friends; I hope you're having a great day.  It's time for Week 2 of the Winter Wonderland IG Hop, which has been organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  Each Wednesday in November we will be sharing cards with a winter theme.  

This week's theme is snowflakes and despite having lots of ideas running through my head, I really struggled to make a card I liked.  I'm relatively happy with my finished result although I may have done some things differently if I was to make it again.  Unfortunately I was still frantically completing my card very late last night so it had to do lol!  Here is my card (it's a very dark and gloomy day here today so the lighting wasn't the best either!):

A close up of the snowflake:

I decorated the inside:

and I decorated the envelope too:

I began by stamping the snowflakes in blue ink and used the matching dies to cut them out.  I then took a white panel and embossed it with a snowflake embossing folder.  I lightly inked round the edges with the same blue ink for some contrast.  I die cut 2 circles, 1 from blue card and 1 from white card and layered them together with liquid glue.  I tried so many sentiments but none looked right then I found this one in my stash and thought it looked the best.  I again stamped it in blue ink and die cut it with a banner die.  I'm not really a bow person but found an odd piece of kraft coloured twine and decided to add it to the top of my circle to give it a 'bauble-esque' feel about it.  The circle is quite dimension as the snowflake was added with foam squares and also the sentiment banner too.  The white embossed panel was added onto a blue card panel and this was added to the card base with liquid glue.  My final touch was some tiny gold pearls which I liberally added all over my card.  I had two snowflakes left over; I was originally going to put them on the front but I couldn't get them to work there, so I added one onto the inside and one onto the envelope.  

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

Alphabet challenge - P is for peace

As You Like It challenge - favourite Christmas colours (and why) - I'm a traditionalist at heart but when it comes to snowflakes it has to be blue and white!

Aud Sentiments challenge - gift tag/packaging and/or Christmas + sentiment

Can You Handle the Pressure challenge - ATG embossing option vines/greenery

Craft Rocket challenge - wintertime (no Christmas)

Cut It Up challenge - layer it up

Daisy Chain challenge - Christmas/winter

Pearly Sparkles challenge - Christmas/winter

Shopping Our Stash challenge - emboss like a boss 

Stamping Sensations challenge - get ready for Christmas

Tic Tac Toe challenge - challenge 223 - blue, free, ribbon (please delete if twine is not the same as ribbon) 

Unicorn challenge - Christmas

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

I really appreciate your stopping by.

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Most of the supplies I used are from Gina K Designs - 

Blizzard stamp & matching dies

Snowflakes embossing folder

Master Layouts 5 (for the circles)

Master Layouts 10 (for the banner)

Pearl mix in black, gold & silver

Holiday Silhouettes for sentiment

Powder blue ink cube

Other products used:

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card 

blue card from scrap bin

twine from packaging

Winter Wonderland IG Hop - week 1

Hello again friends; look at me, I haven't posted for ages and now 2 posts in one day lol!  I'm taking part in a Winter Wonderland Card Hop over on Instagram organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  Each Wednesday in November we will creating cards with a winter theme.  I needed this hop to kickstart my Christmas card production and at least I will have a few cards ready by the end of the hop!

Today is week 1 and our theme is 'Christmas trees'.  My mojo is still hiding from me so I again went CAS with my card.  I hope you like it:

here is a close up of the gorgeous tree:

I decorated the inside very simply this time:

I actually die cut a bunch of the trees last year but didn't get around to using them. Before inlaying the pieces back into the tree I ink blended each piece with a green ink (from a coordinating trio) to make an ombre colour tree and a bright yellow for the star (I should have masked off the top part of the tree but I think it looks ok all yellow).  I adhered the tree panel onto a slightly smaller white piece of card and then placed each ink blended piece back into the tree with liquid glue.  This panel was then adhered to a dark green panel with double sided tape.  This was then added to a white card base with double sided tape.  I stamped the sentiment with versamark ink and covered it with gold embossing powder before heat setting it.  I used the coordinating die to cut it out.  I added the sentiment with foam squares that I cut to be teeny tiny!  I finished off with a few gold pearls and my card was complete.  I'm really happy with the way it turned out and my goal is to use up all the trees I die cut last year for this year's cards but maybe in different colourways.  

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

Allsorts challenge - embossing heat or dry (my sentiment is heat embossed)

Cut it Up challenge - add a sentiment (must include a die cut)

Just Us Girls challenge - CAS - use just the centre of your card

Pearly Sparkles challenge - Christmas/winter

Scrapping4fun challenge - traditional Christmas colours

SSS Wednesday challenge - emboss it (my sentiment is heat embossed)

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - get inky (I ink blended my tree pieces)

I hope you will be able to join us over on Instagram and follow the hop.  Please use the hashtag #winterwonderlandcardhop2023 to find all the participants creations and if you want to join in we can find your creations too.  

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

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - Christmas tree cover plate die

Gina K Designs - feeling frosty stamp & die 

Gina K Designs - holiday silhouettes (for inside greetings)

Gina K Designs - spruce colour companions ink cubes

Gina K Designs - wild dandelion ink pad

Gina K Designs - black, gold & silver pearl mix

Gina K Designs - connect glue

Gina K Designs - blending brushes

Versamark ink pad

Cosmic Shimmer - bright gold detail embossing powder

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm white smooth card 

dark green card from my scrap bin