ABC Christmas Challenge

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you had a fabulous past few weeks. We are back at ABC Christmas Challenge at the beginning of the alphabet. We are having a little change in the amount of entries you can make to our challenge – it is now 5 entries maximum to make it fairer for the random prize winner.

Helen is hosting and we have the Christmas themes of:

A is for Anything Goes

&

B is for Buildings

Here are my cards:

A for Anything Goes
B is for Buildings

My first card was created using some layering stencils from Spellbinders with Pinkfresh Studio Inks. This involved quite a bit of masking so I could add different colours to the same stencil layer, but I must have been in a fiddly and faffy mood because I enjoyed the process.

Once the image was ink blended, I then used the matching die to cut it out.

The background was created using white embossing paste from Altenew with a stencil from Brutus Monroe to create the white on white background. Once dry, the ink blended image was adhered with 3D foam.

I then used some gold shimmery acrylic paint to splatter across the whole card, and added some gems. The sentiment is also from Spellbinders and using their gold card stock.

For the second card with the houses, I went slimline. I die cut the house strip using glittery silver card stock and Time 4 Tea Designs slimline die. Some of the same glittery card stock was adhered to the card base, the blue layer added after die cutting with a Elizabeth Craft Designs ‘Dotted Background‘ slimline die so the glittery card stock would show through.

The blue card stock from my stash must be years old, and has some very. very fine texture of lines to it.

I hope you can come and join us and start your stash of cards ready for the end of the year.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Girls Creative Christmas – anything goes Christmas

Jingle Belle’s Rock – Christmas with something old and something new – old card stock and dies, new glittery card stock and Spellbinders stencils

Peace On Earth – anything goes Christmas

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

18 thoughts on “ABC Christmas Challenge”

  3. Unknown's avatar

    Love both of these Christmas cards. The color in the first is beautiful. Love the simple Christmas scenery in the seond card. Thanks for joining us at MLCCB. Tina DT

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  6. Unknown's avatar

    Such a lovely floral design; so cleverly combining something old and something new from your crafty arsenal. So pleased you could join our holiday cardmaking fun at Jingle Belles in 2025!

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  7. Unknown's avatar

    Da is toch een kei leuke kaart. Super tof. Leuk dat je meedoet met onze challenge bij Girlz Creative christmas Challenge
    I really like your project Thanks for joining us at Girlz Creative Christmas Challenge

    Creatieve Groetjes Claudia

    Mijn FB pagina: Claudia’s Kaartjes and more
    Blog:Claudia’s Kaartjes
    Challenge blogs:
    Girlz Creative Christmas 
    Girlz makes Guyz Cards
    Girlz creative crafts
    Creative sketchy girls
    Girlz Rebel Challenge
    Girlz Creative Fun Art of Scrap

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  13. Unknown's avatar

    What a great pair of cards to start the year, Lynda and I particulaly love all the detail on your first card!

    Wishing you a happy and healthy 2025.
    Hugs
    Carol x

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