This image on an old card was too pretty to toss, so I turned it into a new card for my 2024 Christmas card stash.
I'm linking up my card at:
Jingle Belles - Peace on Earth Day
Hello everyone, I made time this weekend to create a few Christmas cards in honour of Earth Day, recycling some cards that I found as I was clearing out some boxes in my craft room.
I got out my scissors and fussy-cut the numbers and arrange them on a slimline card, after adding some soft stencilling using my NBUS Lots of Happy stencil (Heffy Doodle).
I love how these turned out.
I'm linking up my cards at:
Jingle Belles - Peace on Earth Day
SSS Wednesday - Aything goes
Hello everyone. I've been playing in my craftroom to create these two sparkly Christmas cards. I've had this Holiday Sparkle stamp set by PTI in my stash for a long time but never used it until now. Using it also gave me a wonderful opportunity to use up some gems I had been hoarding.
I started with these larger gems on the bottom card, but quickly discovered I was running out of the green ones, so for the card at the top I used a different package of gems. After heat embossing the sentiment in gold EP, I decided to also add the gold to the edges. To finish off, I added a strip of shiny gold paper behind my stamped panel.
I'm linking up my cards at:
Jingle Belles - Bling on the Holidays
Hello everyone. I've been creating some cards these past weeks but haven't gotten around to posting them. But I really wanted to share this card that I created last weekend with my new text die that I recently bought. Yay me, for using it right away lol.
The lovely Jingle Belles are asking us to use die cuts as our focus this fortnight. I decided this card was also perfect for using up some snippets.
I used the vellum for the back layer so as to make the die cut stand out more without covering up that pretty paper, but in hindsight, I think I should have doubled up on the vellum. I also added a shadow layer in white (also from a snippet) and then added extra, white snowflakes on top that I gave a littel extra shimmer and shine using a sparkle pen and glossy accents.
I'm linking up my card at:
Jingle Belles - Holiday cards to die(cuts) for
Snippets Playground - #475 AG with snippets
Happy to have a play at the playground,
but I'm staying away from the swings,
since they always make me nauseous.
SSS Wednesday - Add a sentiment
NBUS - #60
Hello everyone. It's the second of the month, and that means it's time to share the cards that were exchanged this past month for the Card Chain Challenge. This month, we had 34 participants exchanging cards across the world.
This month, my card went to Ella in Germany.
I used the sketch, the flower theme and the stencil product option.
The stylized flowers are from a NBUS bundle from Altenew, Scalloped Ornaments, consisting of a stamp set with matching stencils and dies. When I ordered it 2 years ago, it came with a free online workshop, and I recently decided to watch it and break out these NBUS supplies. That means that I have a few more cards to share with you soon.
After I did the stamping and stencilling on my florals, I put my panel back into my Misti and stamped again using Versamark ink and heat embossing in Rose Gold. The sentiment (from an older stamp set, Mondo Hydrangea by Julie Ebersole for Ellen Hutson) and used a stencil from my stash for the background.
I'm also linking up my card at:
Hello everyone. It's the second of the month, which means it's time to reveal the cards we exchanged in the Card Chain Challenge.
This month, my card went to Viv in the UK, while I received a lovely card from Brenda in the UK.
I found this embossed frame in my UFO box and thought it was just perfect for my little scene, while also incorparating the birds theme from the options menu. I ink-blended the background onto my card base and heat-embossed the star trail (the set came with the dies and several stamps) in glitter EP.
I die cut my NBUS fairy from a snippet of ink blended card and added a shimmery layer onto the wings from a snippet of laminator sheet with glitter in between.
Do check out the CCC blog to see all of the card that werer exchanged this past month, and maybe sign up to take part in the exchange next month.
Hello everyone. I'm popping in today with a Christmas card I created using a new to me 3D embossing folder (SSS) and an old sentiment die (Winnie & Walter, no longer in business).
I did the embossing using Centura Pearl cardstock and then decided to highlight the 'frosting' with a white Sakura gelly roll pen, the only white pen that will work for me. For the sentiment I used white glitter card (Marianne Design) with a black shadow layer.
I'm linking up my card at:
Jingle Belles - Something old and something new
January Rudolph Days - AG Christmas
SSS Wednesday - Anything goes
Can You Handle the Pressure - AG with an embossing folder
(optional twist: Birthdays)
Hello everyone. I'm back with more upcycled packaging for Jingle Belles.
Before I remembered the Christmas gift bag, I used some old packaging (probably from Christmas cards at a time that I did not make enough cards myself), to create the perfect backdrop to this super cute bear from Katie Skilton's Festive Animal Antics collection. The bear and the Santa hat are in the Bear and Deer set. The sentiment is from the Fun Sentiments set that is part of the collection.
I had this snippet of white card that was exactly enough for die cutting two bears. I tried different cardstocks and colours for the belly and snout and found a snippet of silver Centura pearl card that was the perfect match for the silvery grey background. I love that the dies can also be used as a stencil to add colour, e.g. to the ears, while the debossed lines are perfect to add black details using a Micron pen.
I was about to discard what was left of the bag when my eye fell on the garlands at the top of the bag (front and bag). I thought I might just as well pair these with two more bears I had already created to whip up two more QCAS cards (as my blogging friend Darnell would say - quick, clean and simple). For these bears, I decided to use the other hat in the set. I added the white detail using a Sakura gelly roll, again using the debossing as a guideline. The sentiments are from an older MFT sentiment set.
If I'm continuing like this, all of my Christmas cards will be done by August LOL.
I'm linking up my cards at:
Jingle Belles - Wrap it up
Hello everyone. I'm back with my second card using the Christmas gift bag that our dog received from our dog trainer.
I'm linking up my card at:
Jingle Belles - Wrap it up!
The 12 Months of Christmas - AG Christmas
(optional: die cuts and/or embossing)
MLCCB - #54 AG Christmas
ABC Christmas - A for Anything Christmas
Aud Sentiments - #309 Make your own background + sentiment
Stencil Fun - AG with a stencil (optional: Birds theme)
Hello everyone. Thanks for stopping by.
I am determined to avoid the November cardmaking stress by starting my 2024 Christmas stash early, like I have been doing for several years. And what better way than to play along with some of the fun Christmas challenges out in blogland?
The lovely Jingle Belles are challenging us to use Christmas gift wrapping for our cards. Since we don't exchange gifts for Christmas, I had to resort to the only Christmas gift bag that our dog received from our sweet and lovely dog trainer.
I'm linking up my card at:
Jingle Belles - Wrap it up!
SSS Wednesday - Something new
The 12 Months of Christmas - AG Christmas
(optional: die cuts and/or embossing)
MLCCB - #54 AG Christmas
MAWTT - #162A new craft item
Hello everyone. Wishing you all a happy, healthy and crafty New Year!
It's the 2nd of the month, which means it's time to reveal all of the cards that were exchanged in the Card Chain Challenge this past month. You can check out all of the cards in the CCC reveal post.
This month, my card went to Tina in Slovenia.
The Tic-Tac-Tic-Tac-Toe 5x5 grid had me stumped for a while, until I realised that I could go with row 5 down, using the gingerbread man as my 'bloke'. The colours do seem rather pink in the picture instead of the burgundy from the Tic-Tac-Tic-Tac-Toe grid, but I did use Aged Mahogany distress ink as my darkest red.
The heat-embossed sentiment is hard to read in the picture but it says: Sugar and spice and everything nice.
I also realised I never shared the card that I sent to Jo in the UK for the November CCC.
Some of you may have seen the card before, since I pulled the it from my stash. I was in such a frenzy finishing my Christmas cards that I could not find the peace to sit down and create a CCC card from scratch. This year, I intend to create more Christmas cards throughout the year again, so that I can avoid the end of year cardmaking stress. In fact, I already created my first two 2024 Christmas cards yesterday. Yay me!
Anyway, here's the card I sent out last month.
