WCMD MFT Christmas trees

Hello and welcome to my blog. I spent the afternoon creating a few cards in honour of World Card Making Day, inspired by a couple of WCMD challenges out in blogland.

Fist up, I have two cards using a NBUS Christmas tree die by My Favorite Things. For my first card, I die cut the tree from a panel of Sheena Douglas stamping paper, blended some Distress Oxide inks behind the aperture, added some water splatters and then adhered my panel on top. The Merry sentiment (Essentials by Ellen) was die cut from gold glitter cardstock and adhered using liquid glue. I did layer part of a second die cut behind the middle letters so it would not sag.

Challenges:

My Favorite Things - WCMD #2 Die-namics designs

Winnie & Walter - WCMD CAS with Heather

SSS Wednesday - Christmas

For my second card, I used the positive die cut. I started by heat embossing Dec 25 image (Happy Christmas, Winnie & Walter) in white (SSS).  Next, I used the same DOIs as above to add ink to an acrylic block, spritzed with water and then smooshed my tree into the ink. I then took the acrylic block to stamp onto a small panel of watercolour cardstock, dried my panel using a heat tool and then stamped again with the acrylic block, after rotating het block 180 degrees. I die cut my smooshed panel using a die from a W&W die set (Essentials: Noelle Cutaways), adhered this to my dark green cardbase (SSS) and then popped up my tree using foam tape after winding some gold thread around it.

Challenges:

My Favorite Things - WCMD - #3 By the numbers

Winnie & Walter - WCMD Smooshing with Lydia

Simon Says Stamp - WCMD

Winter Wonderland - Anything goes

SSS Wednesday - Christmas

Another NBUS card

I will continue to try and use my virginal crafty supplies, regardless of Darnell's fun NBUS challenges, the last of which is ending tonight.

For today's card, I smooshed the greens that were left on my acrylic block after colouring my previous card onto a panel of watercolour cardstock I had on hand. Love the way those colours turned out. I coloured one of my NBUS Crazy birds using Inktense pencils and a brush onto a different scrap. I fussy cut the bird's body and paper-pieced it onto the stamped image on my background panel. I used a scrap of dark purple Core'dinations card for my sentiment strip to ground the bird and to repeat the purple of the bird. The sentimen is from an ancient NBUS Birthday sentiments set by CC Designs. Last month, I finally cut up the sentiments from the rubber block. I added glossy accents to the eyes.

Challenges:

Less is More - #348 Watercolour

ATSM - #262 Make your mark

HLS October Watercolour challenge

Penny Black and More - Close to nature

Seize the Birthday - Anything goes (no toppings for me)

W&W Rerun 23

Hi there. I'm popping in to share a card I created today for the current Rerun challenge at the Winnie & Walter blog. I don't own the stamp set that was being featured this month, so I used a W&W stamp set that I do own (True) and used the circle image to CASE Shay's card.

This was a great opportunity to also use several NBUS supplies: Whispers opaque embossing powder in Baby blue, which turned out to be a reall soft greyish blue with a lovely sheen, a very affordable set of Pentel water-based felt-tip pens that jumped into my basket when I ordered a set of Copics last year, and a stamp set by Hero Arts (Dauber Bunch) that has been in my stash for several years. To colour in my circles, I scribbled some greens onto a large acrylic block and used a water brush to pick up the colour. For the orange background I mixed two colours, but switched to a regular paint brush. I die cut my panel using a stitched rectangle die (SSS). The sentiment was heat-embossed using SSS white embossing powder. I used foam tape to pop up my panel and sentiment banner.

I'm playing at:

W&W Rerun No. 23 -  A tree for all seasons

Darnell's NBUS challenge no. 12

Colour Crazy - #39 Anything goes

Inkspirational - #144 Hello

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes