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