Hello everyone. The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge has started a new challenge. The theme is always ‘anything goes Christmas’ Here is my card:
The background panel is a previously created panel using alcohol inks and water – you have a shallow dish of water big enough to take your card panel, add alcohol inks, stir a little – then place the card on top for a few seconds, lift it up – et voila…..a fabulous card panel. You can use any card – normal 80lbs – so I hope you give it a go.
This was cut down to just smaller than an A2 card base, then adhered flat.
The snowflake is from a Simon Says Stamps die, cut out of white glitter card – and layered with another plain white piece for more stability.
I added the silver foiled sentiment – from Pinkfresh Studio – then added some silver pearls to parts of the snowflake.
I hope you can com and join us and prepare your stash for the end of the year. xx
Hello there. A new challenge has started at ABC Christmas Challenge, and having reached the letters ‘E‘, ‘F‘, and ‘G‘, we want to see your Christmas creations following these themes:
E is for Embossing and/or F is for Focal Sentiment and/or G is for Girls.
Here is my card following the ‘F is for Focal Sentiment‘:
The background panel was kept simple – a piece of gold glittery card stock – and the sentiment die from Spellbinders layered and added onto the top.
I chose festive colours for the individual letters which would match with the gold glitter. No extra bling was needed here as this Pinkfresh Studio gold glitter card stock really is very, very sparkly.
Hello everyone. The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge has started a new challenge – anything goes Christmas. Here is my card:
I started by creating the background. Using a Spellbinders embossing folder, I inked up smoother side of the folder, and an it through the machine with a white card panel. This created the embossed leaves, but the blue background to them. I then used gold acrylic ink and created some splatter.
The card base is 5×7 inches, a slightly smaller blue panel adhered, then the white and blue embossed panel was cut slightly smaller than that and glued down.
The tree is a die set from The Greetery, – an interesting die set and an interesting way to put all the levels together. All layers were die cut with the same green card stock, then a little ink blending along the bottom for a slightly darker look – some added dimension.
Once I had set the tree on the background, I though it needed a frame, so I also used the Ribbon Frame die set. As this ribbon frame was created for an A2 panel – I die cut two, did a little snipping, and elongated it to fir the 5×7 card.
The ribbon and tree were attached, and some very sparkly gems added to areas on the tree.
I first created thew background panel using a stencil from Funky Fossil. I used a light blue card stock, then white pigment ink for the snowflakes. This was cut down to slightly less than an A2 card panel.
The central die cuts are from The Greetery and the die is called ‘Frost Buds’. The branch part was die cut from some white glitter card stock, and the buds themselves cut from silver glitter card stock. These were layered and added as you see.
I die cut some extra small pieces and added them to the background, then added some glitter gems to the centre of each of the die cut snowflakes.
The sentiment is from a previous foiling session.
I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations – anything goes is the theme. xx
Hello everyone. It’s been a busy week so I am sorry I am late with this post for the new challenge at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge. I’m also still getting to grips with the changes that WordPress has made – small changes – but it has made it more difficult and less intuitive for me.
The challenge is always ‘anything goes Christmas‘. Here is my card:
For this card, I used some older products. The background panel is a foiled plate from Lawn Fawn – I love this foil plate and have it foiled in a variety of colours of foil, and a variety of colours of card stock. I did enjoy playing that day…
The gold foil is on some blue card stock and cut to an A2 panel.
I used the Spellbinders ‘Delicate Snowflakes’ die set and white glitter card stock for the base layer of the snowflakes, and some purple tones for the layers.
The sentiment is also a Pinkfresh Studio foiled sentiment and I added some Pinkfresh Studio ombre glitter gems for the centre of the die cut snowflakes, and also the centre of the snowflakes on the foiled panel.
I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas themed creations. xx
Hello everyone. The Holly and Ivy Challenge is back with their first challenge of the year. There was quite a lot of blogger issues with our leader at the end of last year, and a few of us weren’t able to comment or even find where to add things. We apologise if your entry over the past couple of months wasn’t commented on – it was a nightmare for us all.
Here is my card for the first challenge of the year, with the theme being ‘anything goes Christmas‘:
I decided to try a different colour scheme, using more purple tones, with a little bit of pink.
The background is hot foiled using a Lawn Fawn plate – silver onto a dark blue panel, and adhered flat to the card base.
The ice skates are from Spellbinders, and die cut using different tones of purple, with matt silver for the blades, and black for the sole of the shoes.
The flowers and foliage were die cut and assembled, then all arranged onto the card base. Some silver sequins added for a little more shine – to the centre of the flower and some around the background.
I hope you can come and join us and start building your stash.
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.
The last challenge for the year has started at Cardz 4 Galz. The challenge finishes on 22nd December, and we will be having a break until the new challenge on 9th January.
Billie A is hosting this time round, and she has chosen the theme of ‘Christmas‘. Here is my card:
I cut a square of the Pinkfresh Studio gold glitter card stock the same size as the square card base. Before adhering, I die cut the square scalloped frame using a Pinkfresh Studio die set out of the centre – it would be hidden behind the white panel.
The white square was cut, then dry embossed using a Spellbinders embossing folder. This white was layered onto the gold, then the gold frame adhered on top.
The baubles and foliage are washi tape from Pinkfresh Studio and arranged as you see, then the gold foiled sentiment from Lawn Fawn added.
I hope you can come and join us with your projects following our theme. xx
Hello once again. ABC Christmas Challenge has reached the end of the alphabet for this year, and Marie is hosting. We have two themes for you to create your Christmas/festive creations with:
Y is for Your favourite colours
and
Z is for Zoo Animals
Here is my card:
Obviously, I chose to go with my favourite colours. I love the traditional red and green for Christmas, and having this purple back panel really made them pop.
This die set is from Concord & 9th, and it has been a really popular set – I can see why. I was lucky enough to get it the first time round, but it didn’t take me long to play with it.
I die cut the base layer from the dark purple card stock. On that layer are the dotted outline for suggestions of where to place your other elements – I kinda went a little rogue, as you can see, but the dotted areas you can see on the base add something I think.
This purple layer was added to a white card base, one I die cut with that base die to create the shaped card.
All the floral elements and the foliage were die cut, many more times than was actually needed, and I went to town with the placements. I only used the poinsettias and not the other flower that came with the set, and added them first – two larger flowers and two smaller flowers.
The foliage and leaves were die cut using several tones of green, and the mistletoe berries I kept white.
A little gold die cut for the centres of the poinsettias, and of course I added gold gems here and there:
The sentiment was heat embossed onto a purple strip, die cut with the banner die, and the two little tag ends added.
This was added strategically across the centre of the card – so much dimension under there I used 3D foam and glue to get it to stick.
I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations following one of our themes. xx
Hello once again. I have a good excuse to play in my craft room due to the sever weather we are having. I created a few gift tags. I wanted to use my Altenew embossing paste, and found it was useable – I have had it for quite a while – but I needed to use it up pretty pronto. I took a whole host of tags and stencilled a lot of them with several stencils I had, and set them all aside to dry overnight.
Today I created this tag:
This manila tag I left the top part unshaded, and used the Brutus Monroe ‘Starry Night‘ stencil with the Altenew embossing paste, then used the paste to create a thick and uneven bottom to it. I wanted this bottom to look like a snowfall – all the ridges and peaks. This was left to dry overnight.
The houses were created using Spellbinders ‘Mantle Village‘ die set, card stock from Concord & 9th and Heffy Doodle. The houses have a second whole layer behind the front so I could piece back in the windows, using Spellbinders brushed gold card stock, or replacing the grey ones. I pictured some rooms with lights on, and some rooms without – that sounded good in my head, anyway!
I am more partial to gold, silver less so, and really do not like to use glitter. I don’t mind glitter card stock – but glitter in it’s loose form – no thank you. I find it too messy, and difficult to control.
The trees were die cut and assembled, and as the Altenew paste was now dry, I created my scene. The houses and trees adhered as you see with a mixture of wet glue and a little 3D foam behind to top of the upper two houses.
It was then I found out the bottom paste was not completely dry – even left overnight – I must really have put a thick layer down there – so some of the white paste found it’s way onto a tree or two – darn those mucky fingers…..I decided to carry on and finish anyway.
I added some Pinkfresh Studio glitter gems – these gems are silver and gold but I do like how they sparkle.
The finishing touch was to add a red ribbon from my stash.
It was only when creating this post did I realise a little red bit of fluff from the ribbon had found it’s way onto the bottom of the tag – that paste is a magnet, I truly think it is…..!
I had a house left over, so used it on this smaller tag – very simple – paste through he same stencil, paste on the bottom to create the hill, house and trees adhered, and some little gems to fit in-between the stencilled stars:
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