Twofer Sweets

Hello everyone. I'm so happy to be guesting at the Twofer Card Challenge this month after this set of cards was selected as the Unconventional winner of the August challenge.

As you may have gathered from my two cards above, this month's theme is SWEETS.

And in case you're as yet unfamiliar with the Twofer concept, the idea behind the challenge is to create two cards using the current prompt and following the challenge guidelines below.

I started my project by die cutting a small heart repeatedly from strips of cardstock, so that I could use those strips as stencils to create my candy hearts. For each row of hearts, I used a small amount of Aleene's True Snow and a single drop of reinker in the colours Bellini, Limoncello, Mint to Be, Sweet Sixteen and It's a Boy (CP Designs) and applied that through my 'stencil' onto watercolour card. After the embossing paste had dried, I fussy cut around all the hearts and stamped various sentiments (Three Amigos by Mama Elephant) using the matching inks (except for the yellow hearts, that required a darker colour of ink in order for the sentiment to show up). I arranged several of my hearts to fill a circle shape, using liquid glue to adhere them and then added a few more on top. I used foam tape to mount my die cut panel on top of my card base and then added my sentiment strip (Label Love by Altenew, stamped in Sweet sixteen ink and trimmed down).

For my second card, I blended several inks onto the hearts I die cut when creating my stencils and then applied glossy accents to give them a yummy chocolatey look. After the glossy accents had dried, I arranged nine of my chocolate hearts onto my die cut panel (Marshmallow cardstock by Bazzill, stitched rectangle die by SSS), stamped the sentiment (Happy Every Day by SSS) and then adhered the hearts using liquid glue. I foam mounted my panel onto my brown card base.

That's it from me, so now it's up to you! I hope my cards have inspired you to go and check out the Twofer Card Challenge blog to see what Darnell and the other DT members have created and maybe play along.

I'm also linking up my cards at:

SSS WCMD - Anything goes

My chocolate card is also playing at:

Day of the Month Card Club - #8 World Card Making Day

HLS - Anything goes with dies

Let it snow

Here's a quick Christmas card that I created this weekend. I had intended to post it last night, but a 3-hour power cut prevented me from doing so. So I spent the evening on the sofa by candle light instead.

Anyhow, here's the card I created.

I had pulled out this Snowflake set by CAS-ual Fridays and heat embossed various snowflakes and the greeting in silver embossing powder (Ranger) onto a smooshed card panel from my UFO box. After foam mounting it onto my grey card, I added a bit of extra sparkle using stickles.

I'm linking up my card at:

Jingle Belles - The Hanukkah Song

I went with a general winter-themed card, 

since I don't know anyone who celebrates 

a non-Christmas winter holiday

SSS - Happy WCMD

HLS Christmas - Anything goes (optional: twinkle)

Crimbo Crackers - #194 Anything goes

Silent night, holy night

Here's the companion card to the one I created earlier this month, but this one took a little longer to finish.

For this one, I changed the orientation of the stamp for a cleaner look. I also used only a simple wash of blues. For the sentiment, I combined two sentiments on my die cut circle and then mounted it to my panel with a larger vellum mat and a thread nest.

I'm just in time to link up my 

card for this month's Rudolph Days Challenge

I'm also linking up my card at:

Crimbo Crackers - #194 Anything Christmas goes

SSS Monday - Let's get ready for Christmas

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

52 Weeks to Christmas - Winterblues