Pink Christmas 2023 - 4

Hello everyone. I'm back with one more batch of Pink Christmas cards to celebrate Pink Christmas for the Cure at Jingle Belles. I actually have more cards in the works but did not have enough time to finish them up. At least I'm making great progress on building my Christmas card stash, and about time too!

I created the backgrounds for these cards about a month ago, after seeing Jennifer McGuire's video on creating simple mixed media backgrounds.

I used 2 sheets of A4 cardstock to create my inky background using Distress Oxide inks, using colours that I knew would work for the annual October challenge prompt at Jingle Belles. Next, I cut up the cardstock panels to create 8 panels measuring 4 x 5 1/4 inch and taped them together at the back before continuing with my stamping and sparkly gold stencilling. I'm hoping to turn the remaining 4 panels into cards very soon.

I decided the panels did not need any additions other than a sentiment. I used elements from my UFO box, except for the 2 small black on white sentiment strips.

I love how these turned out. At first I felt a little disappointed because they did not turn out the way Jennifer's did, but now, a month later, I am totally in love. This is how I roll. I also know I will be revisiting this technique again (and again), using other colours (or maybe not 😁).

I'm linking up my cards at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas for the Cure

HLS Christmas - Anything Christmas goes

Allsorts - #750 AG with the option of texture

ABC Christmas - U is for Use it up

Pink Christmas 2023 - 3

For this batch of pink Christmas cards, I was inspired by the masking and blending technique that Lesley of Heffy Doodle showed during last month's Stress Free Cardmaking Summit.
While Lesley used white (masked) trees and blended green ink over it, I decided to use my NBUS dove stamp (Peace on Earth set, Uniko) after seeing Bev, the owner and designer of Uniko, use this stamp set in a recent video. I used Catherine Pooler inks and my blending brushes to do my ink blending.

I also decided to pop up a single bird over my masked sentiment strip for some added interest.

I'm linking up my cards at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas for the Cure

SSS Wednesday - Christmas

HLS Christmas - Anything Christmas goes

NBUS #55 - AG with NBUS

Pink Christmas 2023 - 2

Here's my second batch of pink Christmas cards.

At the recent Stress Free Cardmaking Summit, there were several presentations about using your patterned papers and ephemera. I took this inspiration and combined it with a fun 'Stack, cut and shuffle' technique I saw on YouTube last week. 

I used snippets of PP left over from some Christmas cards I created last year and combined it with an abandoned embossed card front from my UFO box and these fun tags from a paper pack I bought when I was in the Netherlands a year ago (thinking it would be great for this year's Pink Christmas challenge LOL).

It was really fun to use PPs in this way, and such an easy technique too!

I'm linking up my cards at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas for the Cure

SSS Wednesday - Christmas

Pink Christmas 2023 - 1

Hello everyone. I'm back with some Christmas card creations for my favourite prompt of the year: Pink Christmas at Jingle Belles, where Lauren and Stephanie will donate $2 to the The Breast Cancer Research Foundation in the US for each card that is being linked up this fortnight.
I also happen to simply love using non-traditional colours on my Christmas, including pink!

These two cards were inspired by Natasha Foote's presentation at the recent Stress Free Cardmaking Summit. 

I used Distress Oxides to blend my background.
The Christmas tree is an old Marianne Design die, while the Xmas die is brand new, part of the Festive Animal Antics Collection, designed by Katie Skilton. I will confess that I could not resist buying the entire bundle when it was on offer. I'm hoping to create and share some cards using this collection soon.

I'm linking up my cards at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas for the Cure

SSS Wednesday - Christmas

HLS Christmas - Anything Christmas goes

HLS Dies - Anything goes with dies