And my final Create in Quads Snowflakes stencil quad creates a diagonal group of snowflakes. I added a white shimmery die cut snowflake to my card as well as Catherine Pooler Stamp of Approval Candy Cane Lane stamp and die set to my card. The sentiment was a freebie from Taylored Expressions and was white heat embossed on red shimmer cardstock.
It’s a lot of fun to use these Create in Quads layering stencils. With all of the red and white stripes on this mood board of course I needed add a candy cane. There is one candy cane left in the house and I have claimed it as mine!!
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January Stencil Fun challenge is to use a stencil with an optional Winter theme. Continuing with my Taylored Expressions Create in Quads Snowflake stencils, I decided on the quad that stencils the top and bottom sections of the cardstock and added this Penny Black Wintertime Wishes word die.
And of course while I was making and you get four sections from the Create in Quads layering stencils, I chose this large image snowflake to add this cute deer image from Gina K Designs Christmas Wishes stamp and die set. Sentiment is from the same set.
It’s always fun to play along with the Stencil Fun challenges. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and stay safe.
The January Anything Goes Winter Challenge with The Four Seasons has a really fun mood board for inspiration. I focused on the red mittens. My background was made with Taylored Expressions Create in Quads Snowflake stencils. These are four full size layering stencils that create four backgrounds. This part of the quad gives you an overall snowflake backround to which I punched a scallop and circle shape then stamped with Gina K Designs sentiment from Snow Much Fun and the mittens are also GKD’s Christmas Wishes stamp and die set.
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It was a fun mood board to use as inspiration from the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge for January and appropriate for winter. It does at times snow on Halloween in Pennsylvania. So for my card I wanted to create a snowy background. I started with a teal piece of patterened paper with stars on it, then using the Tim Holts Moon Mask stencil I attempted to stencil the moon in first white pigment ink and then finally versamark ink and clear heat embossed. I then inked Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink in chipped sapphire, a swipe of seedless preserves and finally black onyx over the patterned paper and while covering the moon with the solid moon mask. Next came SimonSaysStamp Snowflake banks stencil which includes snow banks and snow flakes. These were inked with Gina K Designs ivory pigment ink. Batty Newton from Newton’s Nook was stamped, die cut and popped up flying to the snowy moon to finish my card.
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Basic black is the color challenge this month with Colorful Option with neutrals permissible. Although you always have a choice to use rainbow, I opted for the basic black and decided to make 4 cards using Taylored Expressings Creat in Quads Hexagon layering stencils. For my first card, I used several inks ranging from light grey to black and then blended some Tim Holtz black soot around the edges and lightly in the middle. In an effort to highlight the hexagon images, I used my Sakura clear gel pen to add some shine. After disecting the SimonSaysStamp die I mounted the happy and added a sentiment strip and a few sequins.
The second image of the Create in Quads background includes the rest of the disected die sentiment from the first card, sentiment word strip, Taylored Expressions Frame in Frame 3 Cuting plate.
Next up is the third background, SSS painted hugs die cut on fun foam mounted on a vellum circle, Gina K Designs sunshine stencil with ink left on my brush, Spellbinders Hemstitch frame and a few black stars sequins.
And finally, the last hexagon background was the base for my Picket Fence Studio Lavender Frame coverplate die. I can see myself using this die over and over. The create in quads stencils are fun to use and you receive 4 different backgrounds.
Sorry for the long post today but I when you make one basic black card I might as well make four. Above is the Colorful Options mood board for this month’s challenge.
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I was inspired by Lisa’s Penguins Welcoming 2023 card that she posted a few days ago using Gerda Steiner Designs digi freebie and this is the card that I came up with. After coloring in the numbers and the penguins I decided to coloring in the rest of the panel using my makers. It was fun to do but lots of coloring. I added a simple die cut with shadow on vellum hello and some layering to complete my card to kick off a brand new year!
Here’s to making new memories in 2023!
Once I started coloring I decided on different color backgrounds and then needed one more card so I enlarged the image slightly and it was much easier to color. Lol.
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I decided to play along with two challenges today with my gold snowflake card. After cutting down two sections of card stock, I embossed them with my Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder. I like this type of card design by am challenged to get the dimenstions just right so after many trims of the cardstock it’s better than horrible. The patterned paper is from a Michael’s Recollections gold/black & white pad from my stash. Using Spellbinder’s word die for JOY and I believe Cherry Lynn snowflake die which was cut in gold metallic paper and layered on a white die cut. My card was complete.
Temps are going up finally and more rain is on it’s way but for me it’s better than snow.
I was inspired from the Peace On Earth mood board to use gold and white. I did add a little blue snow stencil on the card base.
Can You Handle the Pressure requires an embossing folder and the twist of snow. I always try to play along with the twist.
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A red and white candy cane challenge has been posted on the Double D Challenge blog and I just finished my money cards for the Big Kids for Christmas and there was a candy cane design. I was inspired by our Stamp Buddy Gerry and her gift card holders from earlier in the month. The candy cane patterned paper is from my stash, the candy cane is ephemera from Michael’s and the stamped sections is Catherine Pooler’s Stamp of Approval Candy Cane Lane stamp set.
Like Gerry, I added some good old cash instead of a gift card inside. They came together easily word to the wise, I stamped a sentiment on the inside flap using some Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink and it faintly came through the front of my white flap. Thankfully I had “sweet” stamps to cover up that OOPS!
And for good measure, here is another red & white card using more Michael’s ephemera and some foiled pieces left over from a previous card project.
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Traditional Christmas colors is the challenge with The Sisterhood of Crafters blog. For my card, I chose some red plaid patterned paper and Tim Holtz Large Funky Festive dies and Spellbinder’s Joy die made my traditional Christmas colors card come together pretty quickly.
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