One more pink card

This card was really a case of serendipity. I had this pink smooshed panel in my UFO box and a pink oval while experimenting with a frame for my stencil cards in the first post of today's series. And then my eye fell on a tray of elements from a shaker card kit, with these cute polar bears on top of the pile.  All I needed to do was pop up the elements using thin foam tape and adding a sentiment (from an old Winnie & Walter set). 

I'm linking up my card at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas

SSS Wednesday - Clean and simple

Sparkles Christmas - #177 Non-traditional Christmas colours

Let it snow

This card was created using a very old heat-embossed and ink-blended panel from my UFO box. I paired it with some die-cut trees with gold paint splatters and a strip of gold glitter tape. The sentiment is by MFT and was heat-embossed in gold onto a scrap of watercolour card. I used the same gold paint (Kuretake Gansai Tambi) to add a frame around my panel.

I'm linking up my card at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas

Christmas Kickstart - #103 Snow alert

Snowflake stencil cards

Hello again. Earlier this year, I purchased a copy of Simply Cards & Papercrafts because I fell in love with the layering stencils that came with this issue. I love how these cards turned out. I also love that you get a different look if you use the same colours of ink in a different order. For these cards I used Catherine Pooler inks in Grapecrush, Sugared Lavender and It's a girl. The sentiment is from a set of sentiment stamps that also came with the magazine.

I'm linking up my cards at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas

SSS Wednesday - Clean and simple

Allsorts - Anything goes (top card)

ATSM - #504 Any occasion

Pink Christmas and Mixed Media

Hello again. Two years ago, I created these cards for the annual Pink Christmas prompts at Jingle Belles. I had intended to turn my remaining 4 panels into cards shortly afterwards. Instead, they disappeared in a drawer ... until now. I did not want to cover up too much of the backgrounds so I kept things simple.

I'm linking up my cards at:

Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas

I'm linking up my 1st card at:

Sparkles Christmas - #177 Non-traditional Christmas colours

I'm linking up my 2nd card at:

ATSM - #504 Any occasion

3 for 1 Christmas stencil cards

Hello everyone. I had some fun with a new stencil a while ago and these panels were just perfect for the current challenge prompt at Jingle Belles. It's the the annual Pink Christmas, where Lauren and Stephanie will be donating $2 each to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation for each card that is linked up this fortnight. This was a great incentive, as always, to actually sit down in my craft room and create/finish up some cards for my Christmas stash.

I started by using my stencil (Festive Background stencils, Katie Skilton) as an embossing folder using an embossing mat and some card shims, and then blended different colours of Catherine Pooler inks through the stencil onto the raised areas (card 1). I then spritzed the stencil with water to get the left-over ink on the stencil flowing and created a print on another card panel (card 2). There was still some ink left, so I created another print, which turned out very soft and muted (card 3).

I kept the rest of the design very simple with die-cut sentiments (Frames and sentiments, Katie Skilton on cards 1 and 2; Card Making Magic on card 3) and some vellum (ivory vellum on the first 2 cards and clear vellum on the 3rd panel. 

I'm linking up my cards at:

Jingle Belles - I'm dreaming of a PINK Christmas 

I'm linking up my 2nd card at:
Sparkles Christmas Challenge - #177 Non-traditional Christmas colours

I'm linking up my 3rd card at:
SSS Wednesday - Clean and Simple