Hello. The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge has started a new challenge, the theme is always ‘anything goes Christmas‘. Here are my cards:
I wanted to try the Taylored Expressions ‘Create in Quads’ stencils, and used this Christmas tree stencil. Even though each stencil can be inked with the same colour, I decided to make it a little more interesting and created each of the quarters in different colours – swapping and changing the inks and blending brushes as needed.
The final stencil is for the snow effect, and I used some Tonic Nuvo Glacier paste on all four of the quads:
Once the paste was dry, I quartered the sheet, cut down each of the panels just slightly, and to create the matching border around each of the card base, I swiped one of the ink pads around the edges. This ensured that the edge matched at least one of the tones of the colours I had used for each quarter.
I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations. xx
I shall be entering the following challenges:
Krafty Chicks – Christmas
Creative Fingers – anything goes
Shopping Our Stash – circle card or feature circles/dots (the snow ‘circles’)
Jingle Belles Rock – Christmas with jewels, glitter, bling – anything sparkly
Creative Inspiration – anything goes
Stencil Fun – anything goes with stencils – option of spring/Easter not taken)
Thank you for joining in our challenge this month with your wonderful project!
DT – Val, Nan, Leigh, Cat
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The soft colors are already so beautiful and delicate, but that soft shimmery paste for the snow takes the entire thing to the next level! So pleased you could join our BLING-y fun at Jingle Belles!
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That glacier paste makes such a lovely snow … and such wonderful colors for your trees … so glad you joined us as we BLING in the Holidays at Jingle Belles.
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I love the use of the nontraditional colors for these trees. Super collection of cards.
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Gorgeous cards, Lynda! Jo x
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Thank you xx
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I love your Christmasy take on our challenge!! Way to go shopping your stash!! Thanks for playing along with our “round & round” circle challenge over at Shopping Our Stash. Deb Horst, DT #SOS517
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Oh these are brilliant Lynda – love the contemporary style!
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Thank you – I wanted bright colours instead of traditional xx
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I love these! Another stamping buddy uses the quad stencils a lot and now I’m considering buying a few myself. The additional bit of sparkle in the background gives the cards a lovely wintery feel.
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OMG … these are AWESOME!
Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our STENCIL FUN challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
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I love these! the color and bit of sparkle. A very fresh, fun and modern take on the christmas tree 🙂
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