Layered Christmas card

Hello there! Today I'm back with a fairly quick and layered Christmas card without any stamping. Shocking, I know! I don't do layers as often as I did in the past, but I wanted to make an exception for a farewell card for the Mojo Monday challenge that is closing down. I haven't been able to play along as often as I would have liked, but heck, that's life. I also wanted to play along with the lovely Jingle Belles. It's been ages since I played along, and I need to get on with my Christmas cards.

Anyhow, here's my card, using papers from an old DCWV pack and a few garland die cuts (Reverse Confetti):

And here's the sketch I used:

I'm also linking up my card at:

CHNC Extra -  Always anything Christmas goes

CHNC - #338 Anything Christmas goes

CAS Mix Up June reminder

I'm back today with my second installment as a guest designer for this month's CAS Mix Up challenge.

There is still time to play along with the theme for this month's challenge, which is:

This time, I decided to create a Christmas card, since I am way behind on my goal to have all of my Christmas cards ready by the end of October. Besides, I wanted to have a play with this gorgeous stencil paste that I recently picked up at a shop in Heraklion. Here's what I came up with:

I applied stencil paste (Vanilla, Pentart) through a stencil (Frozen forest, StudioLight) onto a scrap of dark kraft cardstock and fussy cut my pinecones once the paste was dry. I stamped the text fragment and sentiment (Pinecones, CAS-ual Fridays, retiring) in distress oxide ink (vintage photo) onto a die cut panel of Neenah desert storm cs and then restamped the sentiment in fired brick. I diluted a little fired brick ink to create some splatters. Before I mounted everything to my card, I went around the edges of my pinecones and panel with a blending tool and vintage photo ink. I added a double bow from some red ribbon I found in my recycle box.

I do hope you will pop over to the CAS Mix Up blog for more inspiration and to play along.

I'm also linking up my card at:

SSS Wednesday - Emboss it

SSS Monday - Touchy feely

ATSM - #249 Anything goes

Sparkles Christmas -  #77 Non-traditional colours

STAMPlorations - June CAS challenge 

(optional colour twist: masculine colours)

CAS Mix Up June

I'm thrilled to be making a guest appearance at the CAS Mix Up challenge this month after having been selected as the top pick for the April challenge with this card. For the month of June, we have the following fun challenge for you:

And here is my card:

I started by die cutting my panel with the journaling card die (Concentric Circles Dies, Neat & Tangled) and repeatedly stamping the Script stamp (Kaiserkraft) in archival ink, before applying texture paste (Ranger) through a flower stencil that came as a free gift with a UK crafting magazine. While the texture paste was still wet, I sprinkled fine glitter (local bargain store) on top. I adhered my panel and the sentiment strip with foam tape for some added dimension.

I hope my card is inspiring you to play along. Please visit the CAS Mix Up blog for all the details, plus more inspiration and a few links to some technique videos.

I'm also linking up my card at:

ATSM - #244 Clean and simple

AAA Cards - #91 Happy Birthday
(3rd Big Birthday Bash)

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

Timeout - #84 'Flowers and friends make life a garden'