My card for the Four Seasons Anything Goes Winter December challenge uses this interesting unbranded ornament bauble die, Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder, Stampin Up’s To You & Yours stamp set, Gina K Designs Decorative Tag Set die and I wish i could remember where the JOY sentiment is from???. I cut an additional circle out of a darker blue cardstock to back my bauble, added a little ribbon and I really like how this one turned out.
I’m using the snowy village scene on the bottom right of the mood board for my inspiration.
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My card today was one of my Christmas card designs that I took inspiration from our Stamp Buddy Lisa B and decided to enter it into the Double D Christmas JOY challenge. The challenge requires that the word JOY must be on your card project. I did a wood graining technique using some white, blue and browns inks after scoring my lines then popping it up on a layering colored cardstock. The die cut the sentiment from Spellbinders and the beautiful Memory Box Drop Nativity and Gilded Drop dies layered together complete this card.
The Double D mood board is below.
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Each quarter there is a virtual stamp night at Splitcoast Stampers. This time the theme is TV series. I worked on the mini challenges over several days.
Great Joy Christmas
This card was for 3rd Rock from the Sun and the challenge was to make a galaxy card. I chose to ink blend a background with Lawn Fawn inks. I splattered it with a couple of different white watercolor paints, but all that showed up is water droplets. I let it all dry then added the stamping the next day. This is a SU set called Every Blessing and the greeting I used is from a Maymay Made It set called Christmas Miracle. I have made several Christmas cards this year and I think this is my favorite. It hasn’t been mailed, yet.
Bee Well Soon
This card was created for a MASH theme where the challenge is to create a humorous Get Well card. I chose to use Paper Smooches Courteous Cuties. I kept it very simple with little coloring and a little ink blending.
Candy Cane Banner
This is for the TV Guide magazine. The challenge is to use only red, white, and one other color. I chose green as my other color. I had this banner in my stash for a couple of years, created from Echo Park Celebrate Christmas. I had this candy cane and bow in my stash for a couple of years, so it came out for my red and white. I added a bit of twine and called it good.
Each of these challenges has to be completed within one hour. The time to prepare does not count and you can use pre-colored images from your stash. I enjoy the challenges sometimes. The actual event is December 17 and 18. Usually there are two weeks or more to complete the challenges. Even if I do not participate in the actual event, I do enjoy the mini-challenges.
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Using Taylored Expressions Trendy Tree Farm background stamp, stencil and die to make today’s card and sharing it with the Double D Challenge with a theme of Trees.
This was such a fun set with which to make cards. The sentiment is also a Taylored Expressions’ Joyful Season stamp and die combo. Love the combination of stamps, dies and stencils.
The sentiment was layered on a vellum die cut circle. A few little stars for some of the trees completes this card.
Double D Inspiration Board
Most of the leaves in our neighborhood have passed their peak and fallen to the ground. We only have leaf collection for another two weeks so hopefully they will all drop in time for those collections. There was a hint of snow this morning just enough to add a little glisten to our newly “painted” zoysia grass. LOL….our new Thanksgiving tradition will be painting the straw like zoysia grass with green lawn paint. It keeps hubby happy and that’s all that matters.
Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Putting the finishing touches on my Christmas cards and hoping to mail no later than December 1st. Take card and be safe.
First challenge is Mod Squad with the animal themed holiday. I made this deer to have a red nose like Rudolph. This is definitely a Christmas themed card with the lights and red nose. I didn’t have a suitable Merry Christmas that would really fit, so I went with the greetings from the stamp set. This stamp set is Snow Wonderful by Your Next Stamp.
Second Challenge is Double D with trees. This evergreen tree was blended with a stencil from Newton’s Nook, called Evergreen. I cut a small portion of the trees out to use on this card.
The Third challenge is Make My Monday Challenge with Cute Christmas. I think this image with the girl and her reindeer are cute. It was fun to color.
The Fourth challenge is Global Design Project with Christmas. This card will be mailed for Christmas.
The snowflake background was created with a die from The Stamps of Life. I used and glitter cardstock placed on a blue background. Nuvo White Blizzard Glitter Drops were added to the snowflakes, the tree, the lights, the reindeer nose, and the greeting.
This was fun card to create. I was thrilled to find several challenges to share this with. Thanks for looking and reading this long post.
I used the stamp set Forever Greenery by Stampin’Up. I placed a mask in the center with Mint tape from Scrapbook dot com. It worked well for the mask as it came off easily. I did have to use a brush to remove a bit of embossing powder before heat setting. The greenery is stamped in Mossy Meadow. Some of the images were stamped off, so they were stamped with second generation stamping, giving the greenery a few different tones of color. I used Polished Pink for the small dots. This is the perfect anniversary card and there are a couple family anniversaries coming, so it will go out soon.
Focusing on Christmas cards, I am playing along with the November Monthly Mix Challenge hosted by Donna at Gina K Designs to include critters on your card project. I received 1 of 3 Christmas lists from our grandchildren and one request was an animal painting project with either a llama or a fox. I knew I had this really cute skater fox from Gina’s Christmas Wishes stamp set. After coloring and die cutting foxy, I added some falling snow, mounted foxy on some die cut circles and a plaid strip. Sentiment is Gina’s Star Struck stamp set from the Joyful Holiday kit.
Fun challenge. Thanks for hosting Donna. Have a great day and be safe.
The November Anything Halloween challenge with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge was almost a stumper for me!!! The mood board has a broom theme seen here:
and I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it until I found this large witch broom from Hampton Art Graphic 45 in my stash. I made my wall inking white pigment ink on gray cardstock using Picket Fence Studios English Brick Wall Stencil. After fussy cutting my broom and adding a spider web to my wall it still seemed incomplete. Off to Pinterest for ideas and I found this little sign that I resized and printed “Witches Welcome – Free Broom Parking” I think that is just what my card needed for this this challenge.
Always fun to play along with the Two Old Bats.
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