Last Christmas card for 2024

 

Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying the festive season. 

I was asked to make a more traditional Christmas card that represented "the reason for the season".

That sent me digging through my unused stash of second hand retired Stampin Up goodies and pinterest for inspiration.

I found this one by Nora Marin and changed it up a bit.

I masked my base using a rectangle stencil and ink blended with distress inks in antique linen, tumbled glass and chipped sapphire. Then added a starry sky with spatters of finetec silver paint.

I stamped and clear embossed the image and sentiment, and added a diecut star.

I'm linking up to a few challenges:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown

I chose the technique /stash theme from May 2024 and went with the diagonal star, favourite colour (Blue) and diecut (star)

Dragonfly Dreams, Christmas

Fab n Funky, anything but square

Krafty Chicks, all occasions

Darnell's NBUS Challenge

The Male Room, anything goes

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin Up wise men from afar; Waffle Flower elegant christmas sentiments

Other: distress inks; Crafs 4 U stitched rectangle die; Memory Box star of wonder die; Finetec silver paint; Darkroom Door small rectangle stencil; versafine clair nocturne ink & clear ep.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x

Snarky Christmas Cheer!

 

Hi everyone, the pace is picking up as Christmas gets closer!

Everything is busy but I needed more cards and took some time out in my craft room...wish I could stay here lol!

I love these grumpy bears and mixed and matched a few stamp sets and dies to create this scene.

I used an MFT stencil for the grass, Taylored Expressions for the bear and slogan, Tim Holtz for the gifts and hat and Waffle Flower for the sparkly die cut.

Coloured him with prismacolour pencils and chameleon pens for the hat and gifts.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

Addicted to Stamps & More

Allsorts, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Krafty Chicks, stamps

The Male Room

Simon Says Stamp Monday, make it sparkle

Supplies:

Taylored Expressions big grumpy stamp & die and big grumpy christmas stamp; versafine clair inks & clear ep; MFT grass stencil and mowed lawn oxide ink; Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous crazy things hat & mini crazy things gift stamps; Waffle Flower merry christmas print die; prismacolour pencils; chameleon pens; diamond stickles; glitter cardstock; Crafts 4 U stitched rectangle die.

Thanks for visiting and Merry Christmas,

Cathy x

Chocolate gold gilded bauble

 

Hi everyone, I still have a few Christmas cards I need to make and thought I'd pop this one into a few challenges.

A while ago I bought some gilding flakes and the colour is chocolate!

It's a bit hard to see in the pic but there is a lovely mix of brown and gold in the flakes!

I added some flitter glue to some cardstock and attached the gilding flakes. When dry I diecut the ornament, top and bow. The background ornament is diecut from white shimmer card.

The sentiment is stamped and embossed in gold  and the embossing folder that frames it all is called Stately by Craft Concepts.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Addicted to CAS

Addicted to Stamps & More

Double D Challenge, ornaments

Dragonfly Dreams, Christmas

The Male Room, anything goes.

I think brown and gold make this more of a masculine style bauble.

Supplies:

Cosmic Shimmer chocolate gold gilding flakes; flitter glue; Poppystamps avondale ornament and clarissa background ornament dies; Memory Box Crisp Bows die; Craft Concepts stately embossing folder; gold ink and Wow gold embossing powder; linen cardstock.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x