Marbled poinsettia

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by! Today I have a card for a few challenges that are celebrating this month: Less is More is celebrating its 6th birthday, while Winnie & Walter is celebrating its 3rd birthday.

For my card, I used one of the shaving cream panels I had created previously, stamped the poinsettia (In Bloom: Elsa's Florals, Winnie & Walter) onto my panel in black Archival ink, fussy cut the image and went around it with a black marker. I cut my panel using one of my new dies (Essentials: Noelle Cutaways, W&W) and used a stencil (Pattern of the Rings, W&W) and a Clarity brush to pull in a little more pink for my orange, red and pink colour scheme. I used my pink brush, which still had some ink on it from a previous project. The sentiment is from another stamp set by W&W (Frenchy's Festive Florals). I adhered my panel onto a red card (SSS lipstick red cardstock) and foam-mounted my poinsettia. To finish off, I added a little white detail to the flower heart using a white gel pen and adhered a few clear sequins (Pretty Pink Posh).

Challenges:

Less is More - #314 Use 3 adjacent colours

Taheerah's Gossip Column at W&W - No, 6 Marble

W&W 3rd Birthday Bash - Stencil challenge with Kelly

ATSM - #228 Holiday

Merry Monday - #234 Clean and simple

Celebrate the holiday season

Hi there! I'm back with another card, a Christmas spinner card this time.

I used one of my shaving cream and distress reinker marbled panels to stamp one of the tree stamps from the Season's Tweetings set by Winnie & Walter (twice) and die cut the sentiment using my neglected NBUS Block Out dies by Little B. I fussy cut the two trees and adhered them together with a piece of white thread in between. The tree is almost symmetrical, but not quite, so I snipped off the extra bits on either side and then went around the edge with a black marker. I secured the ends of my thread to my card base from which I had die cut a circle and then adhered my debossed (an old NBUS Cuttlebug embossing folder) and die cut front panel on top of my card.

I heat embossed the second part of my sentiment (from my NBUS Frenchy's Festive Florals stamp set by Winnie & Walter) in white onto a snippet of black cardstock and added a tiny strip of foiled cardstock (created using glossy accents and gilding flakes) behind it to incorporate more of the colours of my tree. The pictue below shows the shimmer of the gilded strip as well as the flip side of my tree.

After I had added my sentiment, I decided I needed a little something extra, so I used an eyelet tool to create a few cicle embellishments from my inked panel and added those around my circle frame.

Challenges:

Allsorts - #400 Let's celebrate

Taheerah's Gossip Column at Winnie & Walter's - No. 6 Marble

Darnell's NBUS #10 - Anything NBUS goes

(haha, come to think of it, 

I used my embossed panel backwards, 

so I'm also using the optional twist, 

since last Tuesday was National Backward Day in the US)

ATSM - #227 Make your mark

ABC Christmas - D for Dimension

Time to celebrate

Here's a card that I created for our granddaughter's 13th birthday, which is tomorrow. I pulled out two NBUS stamp sets by Concord & 9th: Birdie banners and Banner Alpha Bits.

These stamps are so much fun to create quick and playful scenes, especially since they contain both the outline stamps and solid stamps, and the Alpha Bits stamps can be used to customise your banner texts. I did a little masking to place my poles behind the banner flags and the beaks of the sweet birdies and added colour using the solid stamps and my Altenew ink cubes. The blue and green are from my NBUS cube sets. To finish off my scene, I added a few pink hearts and then added a little sparkle to the hearts and the banner flags using my Spectrum Noir glitter pen. I used a sheet from my NBUS Studio Calico paper pad to add an extra pop of colour and adhered everything to my A2 card base.

Challenges:

Allsorts - #400 Let's celebrate

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

Darnell's NBUS #10 - Anything NBUS goes

STAMPlorations CAS card challenge - Anything goes (optional: hot pink)