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

Sketchy Christmas

Hello everyone. Today, I finally took some time to create a Christmas card AND post it right away. Yay me!

Today's card was inspired by this sketch on the Jingle Belles blog.

To create my layers without adding bulk, I used a NBUS snowflake stencil (Festive Backgrounds by Katie Skilton) and Pumice stone distress ink to create a soft background and added a torn strip of ivory vellum, that I have had like forever, for my horizontal band. I found an unopened pack of Memory cards by October Afternoon in my stash. I trimmed off a small strip at the top of this card and rounded the corners with my corner chomper, and paired it with this cute tag from a paper pack that I bought in the Netherlands a few years ago. To finish off my design, I added a Santa hat brad from the Eyelet Outlet and a sentiment strip from my UFO box (by SSS if I remember correctly).

I'm linking up my  card at:

Jingle Belles - 'Twas the sketch before Christmas

Allsorts - #829 Anything goes

SSS Wednesday - Quite quirky

NBUS - #77

Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge - #44