The challenge at the ModSquadChallenge is to create ‘”Snowy or Starry Night- This week you must incorporate snowy OR starry night into your project theme. Snow or stars means more than one. It has to be a snowy or starry night.‘
So my night sky is filled with stars using the Tim Holtz stars stencil. After creating my night sky with a combination of Distress Oxide and GKD inks, using versamark and white embossing powder to create my night Starry sky. I repeated the process a number of times. The snowy hills were cut using Poppystamps Stitched Hills dies. The image, snowflakes and sentiment are from an older Inkadinkadoo set.
I have many supplies from my Mother’s estate. One day recently, I began thinking that it would nice to create Christmas cards using her supplies. I found a couple of ideas that I like and have supplies for.
Ornament card with Window
This ornament set is easy to use. It is mounted on wood blocks. I could remove them from the wood, but I find wood easy to use, most of the time. I keep the tool handy to I can re-stamp if needed. The idea I found used a tree to create the foliage for the ornaments to hang in. I tried the tree, but then decided to use my pine set. I am finding that the older sets work well with newer items available. The pine is from a set called pinecones2stamp from The Stamps of Life. I can’t remember the name of the ornament set, but it is retired SU, from 2011. I added a lot of sparkle with the Crafter’s Companion Sparkle pen. Oh, the ornament set has a punch that matches the ornament perfectly. It made it quite easy to make the window. I used glue dots to fasten the ornament in the window.
Lovely as a Tree
I think this was Mom’s favorite stamp set as she used it a lot. The idea I found used Wisteria Wonder ink and paper, which I have both, however, I could not get the ink to blend with the brush. I used Lovely Lavendar ink from Gina K for the blending in the oval. The tree in front is stamped with Elegant Eggplant. It stamped beautifully. The greeting is stamped with the same ink. To create this, I made a mask using GKD Masking paper, cutting an oval with a die. The masking paper is the exact same size as the card front. I did use the Wisteria Wonder paper. The purple tones seemed to work together well.
For the blending, I used the blender brushes, similar to makeup brushes. They work like a charm for blending the inks. Mom used sponges for everything, like the video I saw. I added a lot of sparkle with the sparkle pen.
This has been fun pulling out stamps from Mom’s Christmas sets. She created a lot of Christmas cards, often giving them to many families at her church. I may give a few more a try if I have time, or I may start sooner next year. Thanks for sharing my memory lane with me.
Remember the Weebles commercial? I think the not falling down applies to any critter one can make wobble.
Birthday Wobble Penguin
Hang on because here comes another.
Penguins wobbling in the Snow
The technique this week on Split Coast Stampers is to use a wobbler on your card. I have had wobblers sitting in my work area for about a month and just needed a bit of time to create with them. These penguins came from The Stamps of Life. Both sets arrived in my house during November. I stamped and colored all of them, but never managed to make a card. I need 3 cards to send immediately, so penguins to the rescue!
The second card has glittery snow, as the MISTI challenge for December is to add snow to your card. It took me a while to think of something, but finally remembered about creating snow by making a simple cut in paper. After adding the snow, I remembered that I have glitter. I used the quicky glue pen to add the glitter to. I love these penguins. I hope to have time to create a few more cards with these fun critters.
The Fill in the Blank challenge at the As You Can See It Challenge #215 Challenge is to fill in the blank ” __________ brings me holiday joy”. To me, Peace, Joy and Celebration of the reason for Christmas brings me joy. Time to rejoice, time to be with family, time to be with friends and to experience Peace in my life.
My card for the challenge does not have a lot of stamping only the sentiment which is from GKD’s Holiday Frame illustrated by Melanie and the PennyBlack Drop Nativity and Gilded Drop dies complete this CAS card. A little bit on coloring on the background layered on some GKD Tranquil Teal cardstock.
The December challenge over at Gina K. Designs is to create a tag for any occasion. I’m stepping out of the tag shaped box by using a decorative tag shape from SSS Holly & Pine Frame die. I cut the die in glitter paper and then two other times for layering. My image is from GKD’s Holiday Season which was stamped on the Silhouette cut files for this stamp set. I also used a blank cut file glued to the back of the image for the lucky gift box recipient.
So of course since there are three grandchildren, they each need their own gift tag. The bucket hat snowman is from GKD’s Season’s Greetings while the middle colorful snow”girl” was from the Holiday Season stamp set. Here’s hoping that the tags survive gift opening and can be saved as ornaments for next year:)
The colors used are Shaded Spruce for the leaves, Cherry Cobbler for the flower and cardbase, and gold for the greeting and layer. The stamp set used is Merry and Bright by Gina K Designs. I used the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder. I rarely think of layers for a CAS card, but this one has a lot of white, so I think it will work for CAS.
I used the stamp set from Gina K Designs, called Merry and Bright; it was released in 2017. The colors used are Shaded Spruce, Cherry Cobler, White, and Gold. I followed the colors for this week’s color challenge at Split Coast Stampers, CC768. The flower and leaves are fussy cut. I used GKD/Thermoweb Rectangle dies for cutting the sentiment. I used the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder.
I like this card. Once I made up my mind on the shape for the sentiment, it was easy. I could see making more if I need to.
I created a card in silver and navy for the Mod Squad non-traditional challenge. The card was posted from Split Coast Stampers, but decided to share it here.
Joyful Christmas
I used an older set from Stampin Up called Joyful Christmas. I stamped the poinsettia two times on In the Navy cardstock, and embossed it with Ranger Silver embossing powder. I fussy cut the poinsettia out and layered it. I used a Darice embossing folder and partially embossed it. I added a silver strip of paper between the embossing and the sentiment. The white paper is GKD Artists Choice. It was heavy enough that the paper didn’t rip after being embossed, like the thinner paper did.
I like these colors. This is one of my favorite sets for Christmas, and I have a lot to choose from.
Judy’s challenge at the ModSquadChallenge is to create a Christmas card using NO Red or Green the traditional Christmas Colors. So I guess if I can’t go with tradition, I’ll attempt to bring in some shine. Using some metallic, shiny patterned paper cardstock with some lovely snowflakes as my background, I die cut Santa’s sleigh multiple times with the final one using some Tim Holtz black metallic cardstock. After adding a little bit of white bakers twine and a sentiment from SSS, non-traditional it is.
