Mistletoe

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #6

My card reminds me of the inspiration photo for the Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #6 Anything Christmas.

A lot of traditional red and green on this card which uses the Taylored Expressions Create-in-Quads Misteltoe stencil. A great concept which allows you to create 4 card fronts on a 8×10-1/2 piece of cardstock. After stenciling each of the four layers just cut the cardstock in half at 4 and 5-1/4. Sentiment was from SSS Peaceful Christmas stamp set.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Hope your Christmas was special.

RED AND GREEN

I needed one more Christmas card for a very dear friend that I thought I’d lost track of until I got a card from her. The green panel was already embossed with the Darice Holly Vines EF. I used a thin white mat on a red card base. The sentiment is from Sunny Studio Seasons Greetings set cut with the matching die was left over from a mass produced card, so this came together pretty quickly. I don’t think she’ll get it in time for Christmas since it’s got to be forwarded to her snowbird address, but she’ll know I was thinking of her. I thought this would be perfect for the Color Hues Red and Green Challenge.

Speedy White Snowflakes

My mini slimline card was made to play along with three different challenges:

AAA Cards Game: #205 – Christmas + optional twist slimline

As You See It Challenge: Challenge #265 – Speedy Snowflakes

Double D Challenges: Lots of White

My mini slimline to meet the requirements of the AAA Cards should also meet the CAS requirements with the embossing and a few extra snowflakes….looks like lots of white space to me.

For the As You See It speed challenge, after deciding on a design start to finish the card was completed in 6 minutes 53 seconds.

Double D Challenges is looking for Lots of White and I think this card except for the sentiment has given me a whiteout.

The embossed panel was made with Darice embossing folder, sentiment is SSS Snowflake Season January 2020 card kit and the snowflakes die cut on white glitter paper are also from SSS amnd the Sensational Snowflakes die.

Double D Challenges Mood Board

Fun card to make. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. Take card and be safe.

MSC snowflake wreath

Combining several challenges with this card. The Make the Cards Challenge #44 is to make a winter themed card, while ModSquad Challenge is only snowflakes. My card is square for the MISTI challenge at SplitCoast Stampers. So fun when one card meets several challenges.

https://makethecardschallenge.com/make-the-cards-challenge-44/
https://modsquadchallenge.com/just-snowflakes/

I used snowflakes from the Joy of the Season set which was a collaboration between Simon Says Stamp and Gina K Designs for Stamptember 2018. I purchased it used, but it was never inked. I saw an idea from Laura Bassen where she made a rainbow wreath and I love her creations, so I CASED her card. The greeting is from the Holiday Wreath Builder stamp set from Gina K Designs. I used the wreath builder stencil to stamp the wreath. I added dots to the center of each snowflake with Nuvo Drops.

Up Up & Away

Peace On Earth Challenge #5

Today’s card is a mini slimline with a very colorful sky and actually a little stormy looking in spots; but, thankfully Santa made it through the stormy sections, over the roof tops and trees in his journey around the world to deliver presents.

Distress ink was used for my background and the stamps were both from Taylored Expressions exclusive free with purchase stamp and Santa and his reindeer were also free from TE.

This card will be included in the Peace On Earth Challenge #5, Anything Christmas with taking some inspiration from the mood board for the challenge and the bottom left depicting Santa’s ride in much calmer skies.

Peace on Earth Challenge #5 Mood Board

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Frosty Tag

The Sisterhood of Crafters: Holiday Gift Tags

Normally, I am so pressed with time getting all of my Christmas cards completed and in the mail that I do not have time for gift tags. Also we don’t do a lot of presents, only for the grandchildren to open, so I was happy that I only need three tags this year. All the grandkids presents are wrapped and then placed in a larger box that is wrapped so that’s the one that will get the gift tag. I think this snowman Spellbinders die layered on a Tim Holtz Sizzix Flurry #2 snowflake die, layered on a Spellbinders circle nestability die will get attached to Brooke’s box.

This tag project will be entered into The Sisterhood of Crafters — Holiday Gift Tag challenge.

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Thirty-One

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge: December

I just had to play along with the December Anything Halloween challenge with the Two Old Bats. Always a fun mood board posted for inspiration and for my card I decided to work off the 31 and the wonky cat. My background patterned paper is DCWV The Bewitched matstack and I didn’t have to look too far for a wonky cat as long as I have Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits dies. This TH set is called Toil & Trouble and really has fun die cuts. I layered kitty and offset with a white die cut to give a little dimension. My frame is a new to me Spellbinders Hemstitch Rectangle die set. No stamping needed with that awesome background.

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Snowy Bauble

Four Seasons – Anything Goes Winter December

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.

Thanks for stopping in for a peek today. Take card and be safe.

Christmas Joy

Double D Challenges: Christmas JOY Challenge

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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