Hot foiling

I really wanted to play along at CAS Mix Up this month, if only because I wanted to break in my early birthday present: a Gemini Junior and Gemini Foilpress. Yay! My husband told me to order it for my birthday after I saw an offer a while back that was too good to pass up on.

Being caught up in work and life and creating pink Christmas cards, I did not think it was going to happen, but then tonight I decided I could at least give it a try, using the supplies I had already out.

So I used the snow globe scene die (that I used for my pink snow globe card) and the gold foil that came with my machine to impress and foil the scene onto watercolour cardstock (Crafter's Companion) and I was thrilled to get it right on my first try. I used the accompanying stamp set and Tombow markers to stamp the (solid) tree and the outlines of the house, such as the windows and roof details, and then used more Tombow markers and a water brush to add colour to the house itself and to the background. For my sentiment I used an older stamp set and die by SSS. I stamped the sentiment in Black Jack (CP) ink instead of black for a softer look.

I'm playing at:

CAS Mix Up - Stamping, foiling + 

watercolouring and die cutting

Watercooler Wednesday - WWC244 All about occasions

ATSM - #364 CAS

52 Weeks to Christmas - Week 43

Pink Christmas shaker

And here it is: my last pink Christmas card (for now anyway). To finish my series, I wanted to create a shaker card, and I used some left-overs to create it.

I used a die cut panel from my UFO box, and while I'm writing up this post, I wonder why I did not use the shaker pouches matching the MFT die. Duh! On the other hand, I do like how the top lies flat, and this Sparkelicious glitter by Chloe (Ice maiden) is really small stuff and not bulky at all. I used the ink that was still on my blending tool to add a hint of colour behind my windows before sprinkling some of the glitter in each square and adhering my panel with foam-mounting tape to my card base. I had already heat-embossed (liquid platinum) and die cut my sentiment (Winnie and Walter) for one of my other cards (I had intended to use it on my wreath card but decided to use a heat embossed sentiment instead). I did some stamp surgery to stamp only the 'wishes' part of a sentiment stamp (Winnie and Walter) and stamped it in Black Jack ink (CP Designs).

I'm playing at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas ... for the cure

As always, the first JB challenge in October is 

all about pink holiday cards. 

And for every card that is being linked up 

this fortnight, the lovely Jingle Belles, 

Lauren and Stephanie, will each be donating 

2 dollars to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation

I'm also playing at:

ATSM - #364 CAS

Crafty Cardmakers - #243 Sparkle

Allsorts - #542 Add something gold and/or silver

HLS Christmas - Anything goes with the option of 'twinkle'

HLS Anything goes with dies

Watercooler Wednesday - WWC244 All about occasions

Pink Christmas twofer

I'm almost done posting my pink Christmas cards. I wanted to create a few cards using some of the patterned papers I have been hoarding for years, so I selected a few 6x6 papers and thought about a way to incorporate them into my cards.

I decided to keep things simple by having this pretty paper peak out from under my heat embossed (liquid platinum) sentiment panel. I die cut the mistletoe using an older die (CC Designs) from green linen cardstock and adhered it into the circle aperture. To finish off, I added a twine bow (with silver thread) and some rhinestones.

I was left with a smaller strip of patterned paper and had already die cut the mistletoe four times, so I decided to create a second card using my left-overs. I love how I've been able to create different looks using the same supplies.

 

I'm linking up my cards at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas ... for the cure

As always, the first JB challenge in October is 

all about pink holiday cards. 

And for every card that is being linked up 

this fortnight, the lovely Jingle Belles, 

Lauren and Stephanie, will each be donating 

2 dollars to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation

I'm also linking up my first card at:

Allsorts - #542 Add something gold and/or silver

HLS Anything goes with dies - Anything goes

HLS Christmas - Anything goes with the option of 'twinkle'

Pink Christmas - tree and wreath

I simply could not stop creating more pink Christmas cards. The ideas seemed to be flowing non-stop, so I just went with it. Since the Jingle Belles linky will be closing soon, I have two cards to share in this post.

First up, I have this tree from an old Technique Tuesday set that I stamped repeatedly (thanks to the MISTI) onto an ink-smooshed panel from my UFO box using Black Jack ink (CP Designs). This is a dark grey ink, which gives a softer look than stark black. I also used this to stamp the sentiment. Next, I stamped several baubles from the same set in a bright pink (Party Dress, CP). I adhered my panel flat to my card base and finished off with some twine.

I'm linking up this card at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas ... for the cure

As always, the first JB challenge in October is 

all about pink holiday cards. 

And for every card that is being linked up 

this fortnight, the lovely Jingle Belles, 

Lauren and Stephanie, will each be donating 

2 dollars to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Tuesday Throwdown - #443 One-layer wonder

For my second card, I blended Worn lipstick DI around the edges and die cut a wreath using my new Classic wreath dies (Sara Signature/Crafter's Companion). Before adhering my wreath, I heat embossed my sentiment (Right at Home) in Liquid platinum embossing powder.

I'm playing at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas ... for the cure

CHNC - #460 Anything Christmas goes

Pink Christmas - background stamping

For this card, I stamped a background using images from a Winnie and Walter stamp set and more Polished ink by Catherine Pooler. Can you tell I am really loving the look of this ink onto the pink cardstock?

I die cut a circle from my panel, heat embossed the sentiment (Right at Home) and then matted the circle with vellum before placing it back. I had tried adding a thread nest of silver thread in between my two circles but did not like the result, so I snipped off the loops beyond the circle. If you look closely, you can still see some pieces of thread on top of the vellum. To finish off, I added a few sequins in matte silver.

I'm playing at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas ... for the cure

As always, the first JB challenge in October is 

all about pink holiday cards. 

And for every card that is being linked up 

this fortnight, the lovely Jingle Belles, 

Lauren and Stephanie, will each be donating 

2 dollars to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation

CHNC - #460 Anything Christmas goes

Pink Christmas - quick and easy

For this card, I used another stamp from the Pinkfresh Studio stamp set that I used on this card and this card. The stamp set is really large (A4 size) and has lots of wonderful images, including a sweet bird image that is begging to be inked up...

I simply stamped the image and sentiment onto my pink cardstock using CP ink (Polished), trimmed around the image. For my background, I blended some DOI onto another panel and adhered the panels onto a soft grey card base.

I'm playing at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas ... for the cure

As always, the first JB challenge in October is 

all about pink holiday cards. 

And for every card that is being linked up 

this fortnight, the lovely Jingle Belles, 

Lauren and Stephanie, will each be donating 

2 dollars to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Winter Wonderland - Merry and bright

The Flower Challenge - #37 CAS

Penny Black and More - Think pink

Snow globe

I hope you're not getting tired seeing all of my pink Christmas cards, because I'm having a blast creating them. I'm trying to combine brand new, NBUS or neglected items from my stash with different techniques.

For this card, I used the Pretty Quick Snow globe card kit that I bought at a discount earlier this year.
I die cut the inside/background panel of the globe from an ink blended panel and then die cut the scene from white cardstock, adding some colour using CP inks and a Zig blender brush. I aplied liquid glue to the snowy ground and the roof of the house and sprinkled some ultra fine glitter on top. I had snipped off the snowy sky part of my die cut and used a white Sharpie to add some snow to my ink blended background instead. To colour my snow globe, I simply swiped my ink pad (worn lipstick, DOI) across my die cut for a rustic look. The sentiment is from the stamp set in the kit.

Hopefully, you can see the sparkle of the glitter in the close-up below. It's very subtle and pretty in real life.

I'm playing at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas ... for the cure

As always, the first JB challenge in October is 

all about pink holiday cards. 

And for every card that is being linked up 

this fortnight, the lovely Jingle Belles, 

Lauren and Stephanie, will each be donating 

2 dollars to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation

CAS Christmas - Winter scene

SSS Monday - All things pink

HLS Christmas - Anything goes

Bokeh Christmas

For today's pink Christmas card, I started with some ink blending using dye inks and then went to work with white pigment ink to create a bokeh effect. When I did not get the result I was after using solid circle stamps, I switched to a circle stencil and simply applied the ink with my finger.

The sentiment (Card Making Magic/Christina Griffiths, probably cut from Centura pearl) was left over from a previous crafting session.

I'm playing at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas ... for the cure

As always, the first JB challenge in October is 

all about pink holiday cards. 

And for every card that is being linked up 

this fortnight, the lovely Jingle Belles, 

Lauren and Stephanie, will each be donating 

2 dollars to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation

SSS Monday - All things pink

CHNC - #460 Anything Christmas goes

CAS on Friday - #166 Big sentiment

HLS Christmas - Anything goes

Repeat stamping

This card was inspired by something I saw on the Internet when browsing for ideas for the pink Christmas cards I'm working on in honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the annual pink Christmas challenge at Jingle Belles.

I used my MISTI and a stripe stamp by MFT to stamp my black stripes and then repeatedly stamped the row of 5 Christmas icons (Hunkydory) in between the lines. For my pink strip, I used an old Crafter's Companion stamp and a snippet of pink cardstock.

I'm playing at:

Allsorts - #541 Spots and/or stripes

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas ... for the cure

As always, the first JB challenge in October is 

all about pink holiday cards. 

And for every card that is being linked up 

this fortnight, the lovely Jingle Belles, 

Lauren and Stephanie, will each be donating 

2 dollars to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Pixie's Snippets Playground -  #363 AG with snippets

Tulip cards

Today's cards were largely inspired by a moodboard challenge at StampNation, featuring lots of tulips in bright colours. This inspired me to dig out this tulip stamp that had never before seen ink (probably because it was from an unmounted rubber stamp set), and then I thought I might just as well stamp it multiple times. I changed up the orientation, colours and details for some variation. I watercoloured all of my images using CP inks.

First up, I have the pink versions.

For my landscape card, I created a sentiment strip using the Tiny words set by Simon Says Stamp and cut it up before adhering it to the left of my image. 

For my portrait card, I added some jute twine and a tiny tag.

I kept things even simpler for my purple version by only adhering a few sparkly gems.

I'm linking up my first (landscape) pink card at:

Penny Black and More - Pretty in Pink

Creations in Pink - #15 Anything goes in mainly pink

I'm linking up my second (portrait) pink card at:

HLS Watercolour - Anything goes (option: botanical)

Colour Crazy - #40 Anything goes

More merriness in pink

This card was originally meant to be a very CAS one, but after stamping my sentiment, I realised the placement was wrong. So I started again and created the card featured in my previous post. However, I did not want to waste my first panel, because I really liked the subtle colouring onto my pink cardstock, so I decided to fill up the entire panel with more stamping and subsequent colouring. And I'm glad I did, because I do love how this came out in the end.

I'm playing at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas...for the cure

As always, the first JB challenge in October is 

all about pink holiday cards. 

And for every card that is being linked up 

this fortnight, the lovely Jingle Belles, 

Lauren and Stephanie, will each be donating 

2 dollars to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Penny Black and More - Pretty in Pink 

(in honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month)

SSS WCMD - Anything goes

SSS Wednesday - Christmas

WWC242 - All about occasions

ATSM - #362 Make your mark

Merry

I was determined to play along with this new CAS challenge in blogland. Since the linky will be closing soon, I set out to create a card this afternoon using the wonderful stamps by Pinkfresh Studio that arrived with the Creative Stamping magazine on Thursday.

After stamping and white heat embossing (SSS) one of the large flower clusters towards the bottom of my soft pink cardstock, I used CP inks in Polished and Seafoam to colour in my images with the help of a Zig blender brush.

I die cut the Merry sentiment (Merry & Bright, Essentials by Ellen) from my stamped panel and 2 more times from red cardstock. I adhered my card panel to my pearlescent card base and then inlaid my sentiment stack for a camouflaged CAS look.

I'm playing at:

Perfectly CAS - #1 Flowers 

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas...for the cure

As always, the first JB challenge in October is 

all about pink holiday cards. 

And for every card that is being linked up 

this fortnight, the love Jingle Belles, 

Lauren and Stephanie, will each be donating 

2 dollars to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation

SSS WCMD - Anything goes

SSS Wednesday - Christmas

ATSM - #262 Make your mark

The Flower Challenge - #37 CAS