Krafty Chicks challenge #807 - Christmas

Good morning lovely friends, I hope you're having a good week so far. It's been rain, rain and more rain here in South Wales, which is miserable, but at least it gives me some time to catch up on crafty projects lol!  It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week we are on Week 2; as always the theme is 'Christmas' and I am your hostess.  It's time to start building up our Christmas card stash again so why not come over and join in the fun with us.

I've had this mittens die on my wish list for ages and finally caved and clicked 'add to cart' lol!  It has lots of extra dies that can be used with or without the mitten and the finished shaped card is about A2 sized.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I originally cut the mitten from a folded piece of white card to create my card base but then realised that I had cut it upside down (with the cuff at the bottom which is not what I wanted) so rather than waste it I cut the two pieces apart and scored a line on one of them, to act as a fold, as secured them together with red line tape.  I cut one more mitten from white card, ran it through my Intri-cut with a checkered argyle embossing folder and used my ink pads to add some colour all over the design, adding a slightly darker ink at the edges.  I die cut the cuff and scallop border from white card and adhered them together with liquid glue.  I die cut the holly leaves from white card and ink blended over them with spruce ink.  I also die cut some berries from white card and used cranberry inks to colour them.  I stamped the sentiment in black ink onto white card and used a stitched rectangle die to cut it out.  For assembly I used liquid glue to add the embossed mitten onto the card base and everything else was popped up with foam squares.  For the inside I stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink and also die cut an extra holly leaf and berry, inked them as before, and adhered them to the bottom of the card with liquid glue.  A fun shaped card with lots of texture and dimension. 

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

* to be updated * 

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 supplies:

Sunny Studio - woolen mitten dies

Spellbinders - checkered argyle embossing folder

Spellbinders - Santa's sippin' sayings stamp (for both sentiments)

Catherine Pooler - notecard postage dies (for stitched rectangle die)

*Gina K Designs - ink pads - medium and dark cranberry

Gina K Designs - ink cubes - medium and dark spruce

Gina K Designs - large, small and detail blending brushes

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

*I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x

Summer Soiree Card Making IG Hop - Week 6

Hello friends; I hope you've had a great start to your week.  The weather is very changeable here at the moment and we can't seem to string two days together; it's showery today but it was lovely and sunny yesterday.  We did however take Wesley for a walk today around the local lake this morning.  It's gorgeous up there and they even have a cafe so you can have a coffee and a bite to eat if you want.  He really enjoyed himself and was really brave meeting dogs for the first time.  He wasn't too sure about the water though.  

Anyway enough of my waffling let's get down to the real reason you are here.  It's week 5 of our Summer Soiree IG card hop, which has been organised by my lovely friend Kelly. This week is all about 'Christmas in July' so we want to see all your festive images but of course if you don't celebrate Christmas we would love to see your winter creations too.  

I've been having fun rediscovering my wooden stamps and I'm really going to try and make an effort to use them more.  I found this cute Hero Arts stamp and I remember using it lots years ago but it's been neglected for probably 15 years so I thought I would show it some love.  

Here is my card:

A close up of the cute kitty:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and did an ombre ink blend from left to right using my ink pads and blending brushes.  Using the same inks I stamped some trees in the background and added some gold dots using a metallic pen and white highlights using a gelly roll pen.  I managed to squish one corner of my panel so decided to cut it out using a postage die.  I stamped the kitty image onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured it with Promarkers, added some white highlights and then fussy cut it out.  I stamped a sentiment under the ink blended strip towards the left side using black ink.  I added the panel onto my card blank with foam tape and also added the kitty with foam squares.  For the inside I again did an ombre ink blend but this time at the bottom of my panel and stamped two trees using the same inks.  I added more gold and white highlights and stamped my sentiment with black ink.  I used the same postage die to cut it out.  I added this to my card base with double sided tape.  A very simple card but I think it's really super cute.  I hope you like it too.  

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

AAA Cards challenge - sketch ombre

Alphabet challenge - H is for Holidays - summer or Christmas in July

Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round challenge - anything Christmas or winter holiday goes

Christmas With The Cuties challenge - clean and simple Christmas cuties

CRAFT challenge - Christmas

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - ATG optional twist Christmas

Creative Knockouts challenge - Christmas in July

Daisy Chain challenge - Christmas in July

Day Of The Month Card Club challenge - National US postage stamp day

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - Christmas in July

A Blog Named Hero July challenge - color my world (I coloured my image with alcohol markers and ink blended my background)

Kat Scrappiness Christmas in July pick 3 challenge - die cuts/stamps/mainly red & green

My Time To Craft Christmas challenge - woods (like a forest, small grove of trees)

My Time To Craft challenge - clean and simple

Papercraft challenges - holiday time

Pearly Sparkles challenge - Christmas in July

Show Us Your Pussy Cats challenge - ATG must include a cat

Simply Create Too challenge - Christmas in July 

Stamping Sensations challenge - ATG optional twist Christmas in July

Tic Tac Toe challenge - die cut/free/any sentiment

Wow so many Christmas challenges around at the moment!  

If you would like to follow the hop over on Instagram please use the hashtag #summersoireecardmakinghop2024 to find us or alternatively visit my profile and you will find the list of participants on my post.  We would love it if you would give the summer soiree challenges a try and again use the hashtag and we will find your projects.  

I'll be back tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge but until then enjoy the rest of your day and thank you for stopping by. 

Love and hugs,

  

Card ingredients:

Hero Arts - Winter kitty E4841 wood stamp - ? no longer available

Promarkers

Lawn Fawn - winter village stamp set (for trees)

Catherine Pooler - notecard postage dies

MFT - itty bitty holiday stamp set (for sentiments)

Gina K Designs - ink pads - key lime, jelly bean green, fresh asparagus

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store now closed

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Kuretake - Zig writer gold metallic pen

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

CAS pastel card

Hello again friends.  I'm back again to share a card I made for my nephew's 32nd birthday yesterday.  I really wanted to try the MFT color challenge so the colours may not scream 32 year man but I really liked the end result.  Here is my card:

I used this very fun stamp set from MFT called 'party patterns' using ink pads as close to the color challenge as possible.  I die cut the stars and added them with foam pads and also used foam pads to add the layer onto a piece of silver grey cardstock which I then attached to my card base with liquid glue.  The sentiment was stamped with versafine onyx black ink and die cut with the flag die.  I didn't add any embellishments as I thought it looked fine as it was.  

I am going to enter my card into the following challenges:

MFT color challenge: #159

Sweet Stampers challenge - CAS

SSS Wednesday challenge - favourite technique (stamping & die-cutting)

Krafty Chicks challenge - CAS

I hope you're having a great week so far.  I'm happy to report that except for a sore arm and some joint pain I survived my 2nd vaccine relatively unscathed lol!

I'll be back soon (I hope)! 

Hugs, 

Card ingredients:

MFT - 'party patterns' stamp set (which I think is retired)

MFT - blueprints 18 (for the stars and flag banner) 

Clearly Besotted Stamps - friends & family 

Gina K Designs - Master Layouts 1 (Bumbleberry papercrafts)

Versafine Onyx black ink for sentiment

Various ink pads for stamping (Gina K Designs, Catherine Pooler, Ink it Up)

Heffy Doodle - white cardstock