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

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

April 2025 Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hello everyone. It's the 2nd of the month, which means it's time for the monthly Card Chain Challenge reveal.

This month, my card went to Imke in Germany.

I was really late creating and sending my card, so this little scene and sentiment seemed very appropriate. The white oval was in my UFO box. All of the other supplies are from an Alice in Wonderland themed card kit (Love from Lizi).

I went with the Rabbit theme option. I also followed the colour option of Chocolate, Orange and Slate very loosely, since the hearts are red rather than orange. The patterned paper caught my eye because of the slate blue diamond pattern.

Do pop over to the Card Chain Challenge blog to see all of the cards that were exchanged this month. And why not sign up for the May challenge? You still have a few days to join.

I'm also linking up my card at:

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

March Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hello everyone. It's the second of the month, which means it's time to reveal all of the cards that were exchanged in the Card Chain Challenge for March. And since I neglected to post last month's card, I will share it here as well.

My March card went to Gail in Canada.

As always, there were different inspiration options to choose from. This month, I went with the Theme options of Africa and Friendship. 

This card panel was in my UFO box, and it was just perfect for this month's theme option of Africa. The image stamps are by Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous, and I paired them with a sentiment from CAS-ual Fridays/Catherine Pooler.

I'm also linking up this card at:

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

Allsorts - Anything goes

In February, my card went to Linda in Michigan, USA.

For this one, I used the Theme option of Hearts & Flowers and the Product/Technique option of Die cutting. I used a flower panel die from an older Tonic Card Kit to create a stencil and used that to stencil the design onto PTI rustic white cardstock. The sentiment stamp and die are from the same Tonic card kit.

Do check out the other cards that were exchanged in March and February at the Card Chain Challenge.

You have until the 6th of the month to sign up for the April Card Chain Challenge.

Two Christmas cards

Hello everyone. I have two new Christmas cards to share with you, one in traditional green, and one in pink. I do love to vary between traditional and non-traditional colours for my Christmas cards. How about you?

For my first card, I used my NBUS Ink & Flip stencil from Uniko (Layering Geometric Christmas Tree). I started by blending the light green, and then flipped the stencil to blend the darker green. There's also a background stencil in the set, but I have not used it yet. 

I'm linking up this card at:

Jingle Belles - Green Christmas

NBUS - #72

SSS Wednesday - Fun with stencils

For my second card, I started with a very old 12x12 paper and paired it with a few snowflakes from my UFO box (2 of them are by SSS, not sure about the 3rd on the right). The Christmas tree (Marianne Design) also came from my UFO box. I adhered 3 trees together and then decided I wanted to add a little shimmer. So I heat embossed it using Wanderlust embossing powder (WOW/Catherine Pooler).

I'm linking up this card at:

Allsorts - #819 Feminine

Christmas Kickstart - #96 Not the norm

Rudolph Days March - AG goes

CCC January 2025

I'm back with a card that I created for the January 2025 Card Chain Challenge, and it's time for the reveal today. I had to skip a few months but it feels good to join in again. This also goes to show that participating in the Card Chain Challenge is always optional. You don't have to commit to each and every month. You only sign up for the current month. So if you're still on the fence about joining, just give it a try and see how it works out. Just sayin'...

Anyway, this month my card went to Greta in the US.

I used the colour palette for my inspiration: walnut, lavender and jade.

To create my background, I first inked up the inside om my NBUS 3D embossing folder (SSS) with brown distress ink and coloured in the rest with Copic markers after the embossing. The gorgeous foiled greeting was a gift from one of the CCC participants last year.

Old and new

Hello and Happy New Year everyone.

I've been playing with my new Snowflake Stripe layering stencils that I snagged during the Black Friday sale at Simon Says Stamp. My order arrived just before Christmas, yay.

I did some simple ink blending with one colour of ink (It's a boy, Catherine Pooler), varying the intensity and paired the new stencils with a NBUS STAMPlorations/CUTplorations die that I bought over 2 years ago but never used before.

I'm linking up my card at:

Jingle Belles - Something old, something new

Allsorts - #814 Anything goes

ABC Christmas - A ... Anything Christmas goes

Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Jack Frost nipping at your nose

Peace on Earth - #79 AG Christmas

NBUS - #70

So0SS - #258 NBUS

Stencil Fun - January AG with a stencil (optional: Winter/Hello)