'Tis the Season

This card if for the Card Patterns Sketch challenge #142

                 

Used some Christmas cardstock and stickers a friend gave me. The base, border and embellishment are cut from Bazzil cardstock. The border is cut with a Martha Stewart punch around the page punch, the green piece behind the sticker is cut with Spellbinders decorative labels. I added some Stampendous dot stickers to the label, some white ribbon over the border. Simple, but pretty.

Let it snow. . . .

but not until after this weekend! Going on a scraping weekend retreat with part of my crafting group. Can't wait-should be lots of fun.

I made this card for Flourishes Timeless Tuesday#142-It sparkles, shines and glistens on the landscape. Let’s capture some of that snowy sparkle on our cards or creations!

I've used a conglamorations of companies products on this card!  Mostly because I got my challanges mixed up, so here we go.....
I used a new Our Daily Bread Designs stamp set-Sacred Season-as the focal. Colored it with Copics, added some stardust Stickles for the snow, and some cinnamon stickles on the pinecones. I used the SU ticket corner punch on the corners. I brushed on some gold Perfect pearls around the edges for shine and ran a brown marker around the edges to define it. The swirl is a Sizzix die. The snowflakes are cut with the SU Northern Frost die. I stacked 3 snowflakes, added some stardust gg and a rhinestone. The DP is from Hot Off the Press, a winter pad I got with the last Cardmaking and Papercrafts Mag. The green backing paper is Bazzil.

Here is the inside. I again used the ticket corner punch, scraps of the DP, and little bits of the swirls. The verse is computer generated.

Thanks for looking. Leave a comment, I always like to hear from viewers.

Noel

Hi all out there is blog land. Here is another Christmas card. This one is for the MOJO Monday sketch challange #212. 

I actually set out today to clean and organize my sewing room (clean up from the mess that resulted when I forgot to put the plug back in my washer drain). I actually got started on that, but my papers were calling me!! :-)

I am in the process of organizing my christmas papers in preperation for a scrapping retreat we are going to in ELEVEN DAYS!! Wooho! can't wait.

Anyway, I came across these awsome Bo Bunny papers and Penny Black stickers I got after the holidays last year. I know I didn't purchase them together, but they sure do go together.

The back ground DP is BoBunny Midnight Frost Snowfall, and the stripe is BBMF Stripe (what else would it be called!) I used a Martha Stewart snowflake PATP for the bottom of the snowman layer. The little tag is a stamp from Justrite's 'Deck the Halls' cling set. I stamped it with Versa magic on white cardstock. I cut it out with the Spellbinders Heirloom ornament 2011 set. Then I covered it with versamark ink and clear embossing powder and heat set. I stamped the ornament topper with Memento Black and colored it with copic N4 neutral gray. I covered it with the versamark and heat embossed and fussy cut it out. I then heated up the top of the ornament, set the topper on, heated it again, and applied more versamark and heated it again. Whew! A few steps. but I love how it turned out. I actually did the ornament in burgundy first, but it just didn't look right. (so now I have an ornament for another project)  I tied it on with some simple white ribbon and was done! I really like it, hope you do , too.

CAS Christmas C4C

Wow, can't believe it's been so long since I posted! It's not that I haven't been doing any crafting-I actually made 35 Christmas cards over the last couple weeks. The local Michaels store did a couple workshops to make Christmas cards to send to the troops. I made a few at the workshops, but made a bunch more a home, too. I have to figure out how to do a slide show on here, then I will post some of those pics.

This card I made for the Crazy for Challanges #110: One-Layer CAS – cards with the base of the card as the only “layer” today! Only exception is cutting out images and/or one die-cut embellishment.
I actually made 3 cards following this theme, but the first 2 I wasn't satisfied with. This one worked the best for me (I'll include the other 2 below so you can compare).
I embossed the base with Cuttlebug Grace's frame embossing folder. The stamp is from a new Recollections christmas set. The sentiment is from Impression Obsession CL44 Christmas Sentiments Clear stamp set. I stamped with Colorbox Evergreen tree and used Ranger Rainbow Sparkle embossing powder. I added some green glitter domes to the corners, and some simple gold line stickers to frame the image.

These 2 cards are the ones I wasn't so pleased with-they're okay, but not my best. Used the same stamp and another from the set :-) I tried to emboss the frame by drawing in the lines with and embossing pen and using silver embossing powder. My hand is not steady enough to get the lines even-so I'm not pleased with this. On the other, the image didn't emboss very well. Oh, well, someone will like them ;)

Card patterns challange

Here is a little Christmas card for the Card Patterns Sketch Challange 134 here.
Here is the sketch.

And here is my card. I used the new papers I received with my October Cardmaking and Papercrafts Mag. It's "My Minds Eye" Snowed In Winter Papers. The green and red cardstock mats are from my stash-probably Recollections. I punched the border on the red with Martha Stewart Poinsettia border punch. I poped that layer up with dimensionals. I added some gold border stickers to the edges, and 4 little buttons for the focals. Quite CAS. Hope you like.

New cards

Here are a few more cards I've done in the past couple weeks.

CR84FN39 challange

I haven't been posting much lately-busy,busy. I have had time to make a few cards, tho. Today I am entering this card in the Create for Fun color challenge #39-to use orange, yellow and brown.  
I have a number of people with anniversaries this fall, as well as birthdays, so most of my fall cards seem to fall into these 2 catagories.

For the image I used the new SU fall set 'Always Thankful', stamped in Stayz-on Timber Brown. I colored it with Prima colored pencils and oderless mineral spirits. I used a Versamark pen and clear embossing poweder on the can.  I cut the image and mat (SU Crushed Cury)  out with Spellbinders labels 4. I chalked around the image with light blue and around the inside edge of the die with yellow Pebbles chalks-Basics. The DP is a piece of DCWV fall stack that was laying in my box-I used it as it was-didn't cut it again. I'm challenging myself to use unusual pieces and shapes;) The orange layer I embossed with the new CheeryLyn falling leaves embossing plate-love that-so pretty! I added some crochet lace trim (from my sewing stash) to the edge. The sentiment is from Verve stamps, stamped with versarmark and chocolate embossing powder. The little flowers are off of a fall stem, and I used copper brads for the centers. I added a little bit of gold stickles to the wheat heads.
I am also entering this over at Crazy for Challanges #106, which was to do a Halloween or Fall theme card. I'm not much into Halloween, but I love fall!